Pick My Battles Quotes

#1. I'm polite. I guess that's the dichotomy within me. I don't like to piss people off just for the sake of pissing them off. I pick my battles.

Lucinda Williams

#2. His hard stare told me to pick my battles carefully. What he didn't realize was that maybe I'd been storing up past battles in my head for too long and soon all the battles were going to break through the surface and turn me into a maniac.

R.S. Grey

#3. I tend to not have to handle things that are probably gonna end up being irrelevant, that aren't gonna have much to do with the film. I have probably a better understanding of really what does matter, when to pick my battles and when to kind of let them go.

Peter Berg

#4. The thing that I do is that when I fail, I just keep quiet about it. I just let it go. It's done. I just go to the next thing. I don't complain, I don't go to - I pick my battles very, very judiciously, and I just assume that there's good in the heart of everybody.

James McBride

#5. I'm not a fighter. If there's something going on that I really feel strongly about, I'll certainly stand up but I pick my battles.

Analeigh Tipton

#6. Know that there is nothing you can't aspire to do. Take offense. Bide your time. Pick your battles. Take revenge when you can - and never pull the ladder up after you.

Linda Hirshman

#7. You've gotta pick your battles in this world...

John Green

#8. Heroines did not pick their own battles - the ones they knew they could win. On the contrary, they managed what they had to manage, and they did not lie to themselves about relying on others for help instead of accomplishing the thing alone.

Gordon Dahlquist

#9. As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers.

Daniel H. Hill

#10. Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

Jonathan Kozol

#11. I pick my feature film battles very carefully. They're going to be personal and they're going to take a lot of my energy. I'm not going to be some big production company and be Jerry Bruckheimer or something like that. It doesn't interest me.

James Cameron

#12. You've got to pick your battles, Pen, but then fight to the death for the ones that matter.

Tiffany Schmidt

#13. Pick your battles, and accept yourself for who you are.

Chrissie Wellington

#14. Pick your battles. You don't have to show up to every arguement you're invited to.

Mandy Hale

#15. You should choose your battles if you can, but if the battle chooses you then kick the sod in his fuse box!

Fredrik Backman

#16. You have to pick your battles on set.

Claire Danes

#17. It's very hard to be an artist, on my first album, and I'm like asking for money for a music video for every song - it's so hard to do. You have to pick your battles for sure, but I definitely want - and I've always worked to make it all connect - for all of it to feel cohesive.

Melanie Martinez

#18. I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.

Action Bronson

#19. Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.

John Eldredge