Top 100 Quotes About A Battle
#1. Determination can be a battle or a thrill. Choose to be thrilled.
Danielle LaPorte
#2. Although some people think that life is a battle, it is actually a game of giving and receiving.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#3. He lifted his brows. "If I really thought it was the absolute best thing for our kids, you'd have had a battle on your hands. That was just a debate."
"With chair-throwing."
"Heated debate. Fights involve chair-breaking. Chair-throwing is just getting your attention.
Kelley Armstrong
#4. The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#5. I've starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this is a battle in the real world, it is impacting us right now.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#6. The only thing worse than a battle lost is a battle won.
Anonymous
#7. Evolution is the most important battle that Christians have to fight today, a battle we must win by any means, fair or foul!
Hank Hanegraaff
#8. Biblical Christianity doesn't fit the world's vision of global solidarity right now as there is a battle against Truth and the world hates that.
Auliq Ice
#9. It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.
Francis Chan
#10. I was once in a battle trying to fight my way out when I realized it's better to sneak out.
Jarod Kintz
#11. If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent an enemy bombardment of the position, would it ever occur to me to speak of a conquest of the terrain in question? Obviously not. Then why should I do so in chess?
Aron Nimzowitsch
#12. Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks ... and you win joy.
Ann Voskamp
#13. There is a distinct feeling of contentment that engulfs your entire being after a day well lived, a battle well fought, and a purpose tirelessly pursued.
Steve Maraboli
#14. Chess can never reach its height by following in the path of science ... Let us, therefore, make a new effort and with the help of our imagination turn the struggle of technique into a battle of ideas.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#15. I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.
Kool Moe Dee
#16. You have to turn yourself into a warrior who engages in a battle as you go all out to achieve your goals.
Alex Dube
#17. If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page.
George R R Martin
#18. If you are situated at a great distance from the enemy, and the strength of the two armies is equal, it is not easy to provoke a battle, and fighting will be to your disadvantage.
Sun Tzu
#19. We've got to move beyond the idea that the public and private sectors are at odds. Government has to lay the groundwork for private equity to productively invest in things like education. It's a partnership, not a battle.
Sebastian Pinera
#20. Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!
Cheech Marin
#21. You only get one chance at pure love, otherwise, the rest will be a battle.
Kathleen Harp
#22. It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.
Erwin Rommel
#23. in order to win a battle it might sometimes be necessary to lose it
Jose Saramago
#24. For me personally, and as a band, there are a lot of challenges. Being in a band is like war, it's a battle - to focus, to really put together something that's formidable and then keeping everything together.
Erik Rutan
#26. I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#27. The dust cannot fight against the wind; the wind cannot fight against the mountain. Everything and everyone has a battle to lose!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#28. After the adrenaline had worn off and medals had been awarded and the glory meted out, only the suffering remained after a battle.
Brian McClellan
#29. She showed that alertness, that swiftness of reflection comes out in men before a battle, in conflict, in the dangerous and decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all his value, and that all his past has not been wasted but has been a preparation for these moments.
Leo Tolstoy
#30. I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
Oscar Wilde
#31. The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.
Gautama Buddha
#32. Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.
Tom Clancy
#33. My hair is a battle. It's an uphill, fine, baby-haired battle.
Emma Stone
#34. War has frightful beauties which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle always rises on naked corpses.
Victor Hugo
#35. It was the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high.
J.K. Rowling
#36. In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.
Seth Godin
#37. She smiles. "You know you can do nothing. What will be, will be. If there is a battle" - I gasp but her smile is steady - "if there is a battle, then either your husband will win, and your son will take the throne; or your brother will win and you will be sister to the king.
Philippa Gregory
#38. The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle.
G.K. Chesterton
#39. A Warrior knows when a battle is worth fighting.
Paulo Coelho
#40. A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in self-discovery.
Frederick Lenz
#41. Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered. There is less glory and more liberty. The drum holds its peace; reason takes the word. It is a game in which he who loses wins.
Victor Hugo
#42. Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.
Murray Kempton
#43. If Satan really wanted to face Jesus Christ in a battle, he will be facilitating the End of the Age by helping to spread the gospel to the whole world. This must be fulfilled for the End to come. Matthew 24:14
Felix Wantang
#44. [The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#45. It was wonderful flirting with him, all the razor-edged literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. A battle of wit, and a test, too.
Elizabeth Wein
#46. The Sweeping Aside Motion This means, the past is in the past. Helping your teen win the war isn't about questioning what you could have done yesterday. It is about establishing a battle plan for what you are going to do today, tomorrow, and beyond.
Jeffrey Dean
#47. Don't fight a battle that Jesus has already won the victory for!
Kathy McClary
#49. There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
#50. Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which he wields a sword. He will be able to fight more skilfullly next time.
Paulo Coelho
#51. For life is practically a battle. To all intents and purposes a battle. Except for a few lucky fellows who can read books, and so avoid the realities.
E. M. Forster
#52. Does it hurt?" I asked. "No. Just." He stared at the ceiling for a long time before saying, "I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like the sound of Dutch people speaking Dutch. And now ... I don't even get a battle. I don't get a fight.
John Green
#53. The challenge, then, is to make men want sex that's less like a battle and more like an unusually satisfying UN meeting, where everybody understands the proceedings and gets a vote.
Anonymous
#55. There is no fix for this. She has to endure it, and somewhere along the line she has to learn to live again. Surviving isn't the goal. Living is. This is a battle between me and her grief, and I'm going to be the last man standing.
Anne Calhoun
#56. The life of separation may be a path of sorrow, but it is the highway of safety; and though the separated life may cost you many pangs, and make every day a battle, yet it is a happy life after all.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#57. Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I've seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he's lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.
Norm MacDonald
#58. To die in a battle is often referred to as a heroic act, but I will never understand that. What glory is there in bleeding to death in agony on the battlefield? I have no intention of dying at the hands of my enemy.
Peter Koevari
#59. A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases.
Edwin Lefevre
#61. Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side
E.F. Schumacher
#62. There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil: it is anger, envy, greed, arrogance, jealousy, resentment, lies. The other is good: it is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy, truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed. - Cherokee proverb Spanning
Angela Stevens
#63. It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.
Duke Of Wellington
#64. I've found in my own life, if you try to struggle against what the universe is telling you, you set yourself up for more of a battle.
Michael Stuhlbarg
#65. There's a battle going on inside you in Ramadan, and for 30 days Allah gives you the power to win.
Nouman Ali Khan
#66. Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse
Joseph Brodsky
#67. Motivation is a battle for the heart, not just an appeal to the mind. Passion is always an expression of the soul.
Patrick Dixon
#68. Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she and Tariq had done was not sinful; that it had been natural, good, beautiful, even inevitable, spurred by the knowledge that they might never see each other again.
Khaled Hosseini
#69. The Mahabharata was not composed with the aim of describing a battle. The description of the battle serves only as a pretext.
Mahatma Gandhi
#70. In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
George Bernard Shaw
#71. All battles should be based on principles. And in a battle of principles, it is not the size of the adversary that matters. It is the size of the principle.
Subroto Bagchi
#72. We will fight a battle, and then we will rest. Alive or dead, we'll rest. - Jon Snow
George R R Martin
#73. climate change as a battle between capitalism and the planet,
Naomi Klein
#74. Anyway, I heard you and your Mother-in-Law kicked ass! Shame his daddy'o wasn't around for the family reunion, although I doubted a battle is the right way to say 'hi,my name's Kiera and I am sexing up your son's man stick.
Stephanie Hudson
#75. Life is not a battle to win but to sing a melody.
Amit Ray
#76. Life is not a battle to win but a melody to sing.
Amit Ray
#77. Constantly there's a credibility issue; you're judged on how you look. If you look good, people assume you aren't credible. It's a battle you'll always fight if you're on TV and a female.
Lisa Guerrero
#78. Do not run from a battle with dragons; rather turn and face it. For even if you die, you die in glory.
J.J. Thompson
#79. Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in unclean garments was a battle that encouraged surrender.
Dan Groat
#80. Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
George Eliot
#81. This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.
Janet Morris
#82. The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#83. Seldom has a battle, in which greater numbers were
not engaged, been so important in its consequences as that of Cowpens.
John Marshall
#84. What good is winning a battle, if you don't even realise there's a war going on?
Aravind Adiga
#85. It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards.
T.H. White
#86. Out on the street I start to run; I need to breathe in this life, the trees, the warmth of my town. I will be able to control my own fate and I will know how to be happy. Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle ...
Shan Sa
#87. The Christian life, then, is a battle, so sharp and full of danger that effort can nowhere be relaxed without loss ...
Huldrych Zwingli
#88. Human consciousness at present is a sort of battlefield. And you know what Tolstoy tells us about battles in War and Peace. Nobody really knows what is going on during a battle ...
Saul Bellow
#89. Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself.
Walter Bonatti
#90. It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.
Brit Hume
#91. The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.
Christopher Hitchens
#92. And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle.
Shirley Manson
#93. Life is a battle, Sasha. All existence is in conflict. We fight the elements, we fight our consciences, we fight the limitations and eventual mortality of our bodies. All things happen by conflict, of one sort or another.
Joel Shepherd
#94. INDECISION NOW!' isn't a battle cry that's going to rouse anybody's blood. But I sometimes wonder if it isn't the sanest one.
Phillip Andrew Bennett Low
#96. Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive.
Sun Tzu
#97. Truth is a battle of perceptions. People only see what they're prepared to confront. It's not what you look at that matters, but what you see. And when then different perceptions battle against one another, the truth has a way of getting lost. And the monsters find a way of getting out.
Emily Thorne
#98. You can't fight a battle you don't see or know exists. You cannot defeat an enemy when you don't even know he is attacking you.
Rebecca Brown
#99. I guess after all those years he had exhausted me. I never knew I was signing up for a battle, but I finally knew that he had won.
Deb Caletti
#100. It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and bloodshed. It may not seem as glorious to the uninitiated, but in the end it results in fewer wounds--of any kind.
Frank Herbert
