Pick Your Battles Quotes

#1. I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#2. You know, you pick and choose your battles.

Ryan Lochte

#3. 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

#4. No one ever became great without troubles. Troubles are opportunities for greatness in disguise

Bien Sufficient

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

Action Bronson

#6. You kidnapped me! You've humiliated me, beat me, nearly gotten me rapped, and just a moment ago you had me suck a complete stranger's dick in a room full of twisted perverts. I love you, but I'm not the coward, Caled. I deserve to live or die on my own fucking terms.

C.J. Roberts

#7. Pick your friends like you pick your battles; wisely.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. There are certain battles that you pick. When they're not worth picking, they're laughable stories.

David Beckham

#11. I think to be successful at anything you have to put in a hell of a lot of effort. Pick your battles. I picked music, put in a lot of effort, and it's worked.

Ed Sheeran

#12. Sour gas is one of the most dangerous, toxic substances known to man.

Andrew Nikiforuk

#13. Love is the river of life in the world.

Henry Ward Beecher

#14. 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

#15. Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

Eustache Deschamps

#16. Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession.

Phil Plait

#17. We've all got to remember to pick our battles carefully, to be prepared to lose small ones, and to hold out for big ones.

Margaret Kennedy

#18. 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

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

Claire Danes

#20. Bikes are for riding; they're not car hats.

BikeSnobNYC

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

Fredrik Backman

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

Mandy Hale

#23. 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

#24. When Vern had described Meme users so estranged from everyday language that they didn't know what words they didn't know, I

Alena Graedon

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

Chrissie Wellington

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

Tiffany Schmidt

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Jonathan Kozol

#30. As a novelist, you have to pick your battles. You are tired. You have begun to experience the first ominous tinglings of carpal tunnel syndrome. You wake up in the middle of the night with both hands lying across your chest like a couple of plucked bird carcasses, dead of all sensation.

Lynn Coady

#31. 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

#32. 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

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

John Green

#34. 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

#35. Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are not small that the rocket will simply run amuck among friends and foes.

Thomas Huxley

#36. When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles.

Austin Butler