Top 100 Quotes About Battle
#1. You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
Vernon Howard
#2. Anyone who has ever ridden a bike, especially if you've commuted on one, will know that you fight a never-ending battle to be recognized as a legitimate possessor of road space. That's a very fancy way of saying that you engage in daily battles with asshole drivers.
Shane Niemeyer
#3. The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.
Chris Hedges
#4. The way I saw the world changed in an instant. My eyes were opened to a need in this country that was just beginning to be recognized. The floodgates were opened, and our battle-injured warriors filled our military hospitals.
Diana Mankin Phelps
#5. It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation sign Aries or Leo, its home, for then we enter the sea of life on the crest-wave and are backed in the battle of existence by an abundant fund of vim and energy.
Max Heindel
#6. The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.
Walter Jon Williams
#7. Until you fight the battle against time, you won't know how best to manage your time
Sunday Adelaja
#8. Behold a people shall come from the north, and a great nation. They shall hold the bow and the lance; they are cruel and will not show mercy; their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses every one put in array, like a man to the battle.
Conn Iggulden
#10. Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places - on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, poetry, etc.
Annie Besant
#11. Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
Anthony Trollope
#12. A daughter was a battle between fathers and boys in which the fathers fought valiantly and always lost.
Ann Patchett
#13. They say a good soldier fights a battle, never a war. That's for civilians.
John Steinbeck
#14. Hope is sometimes fleeting, but always precious. Sad to say, when the battle began, most of my companions had no hope at all.
T.A. Barron
#15. memorizing history in school, you should picture yourself in the Battle of Hastings and pretend to lose your legs. You won't forget it then. Parietal
Ruby Wax
#16. When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#17. Writing is like a battle. You're often so into it you don't have any high ideals. You're just doing it. I have all these boxing prints on my walls. I always feel that's what I am, a boxer. I get my brains knocked out every so often.
James Purdy
#18. You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#19. That was the entire reason to have battle commanders in the first place - so that one man could balance the advantages of logic and reason against the emotional, insane demands of close battle.
Jim Butcher
#20. Be kind - Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle - everybody's lonesome.
Marion Parker
#21. In the euro area the fight for survival has become a battle between politicians and arithmetic.
Mervyn King
#22. I am Birgitte Silverbow," Birgitte announced, as if to dispel doubt. "The Horn of Valere has sounded, calling all to the Last Battle. The heroes have returned!
Robert Jordan
#25. Like a soldier back from battle you fill my vision. You're a flood, a baptism I'd forgotten, and the force of you leaves me breathless.
Julie Berry
#26. Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.
A.J. Hartley
#27. This was what men fought for, what men died for: a chance at life, and to fight on other days - the battle of your choice, of the body, or the heart, or the soul.
Janet Morris
#28. The most critical time in any battle is not when I'm fatigued, it's when I no longer care.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#29. In battle, do not think that you have to win. Think rather that you do not have to lose.
Gichin Funakoshi
#30. If I had a child who wanted to be a teacher, I would bid him Godspeed as if he were going to war. For indeed the war against prejudice, greed, and ignorance is eternal, and those who dedicate themselves to it give their lives no less because they may live to see some fraction of the battle won.
James Hilton
#31. When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
Taya Kyle
#32. It's almost seems as though there's a battle going on between the public and all the fast-food establishments, and, believe me, I think it's very tasty food.
Regis Philbin
#33. During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.
Adolf Galland
#34. We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
Tavis Smiley
#35. Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.
Catherynne M Valente
#36. Bravery is when you walk into a battle you are not sure of winning.
Jeffrey Fry
#37. If, in the name of combating terrorism, we so restrict our own freedom, have we not thereby lost part of the very battle we seek to win?
Jed S. Rakoff
#38. The outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill; an utter yearning to produce in all ways, to battle as much as possible against time that drags us along, and the distractions that throw a veil over our soul.
Eugene Delacroix
#39. Darwin was a dreamer, I can assure you. No evolution or anything of the sort. For every one who can reason, I have to battle with nine orangutans.
Don Anacleto
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#40. I felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition - the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my sister to this insane distress and us to this savage battle.
Philippa Gregory
#41. Perseverance may be just as important as speed in the battle for the future.
Gary Hamel
#42. Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.
Sun Tzu
#43. Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.
Ronald Blythe
#44. When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
Norm MacDonald
#45. Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I'm the dictator, so I win every battle. So, in that sense, novels are easier because you don't have to answer to anyone. And then, you go into something like film and there are more cooks in the kitchen, so to speak.
Nicholas Sparks
#46. He nods. "Remember," he says more confidently than before. "This is not our fight. This is not our home. This is not our battle. This is not our war. Not ours alone. This is a battle for freedom, equality, and the right to happiness. This is an Ordinary battle, and we cannot succeed without them.
Douglas Pershing
#47. DON'T BE SO PREPARED FOR THE BATTLE,
TO THE POINT YOU FIND YOURSELF UNPREPARED FOR THE VICTORY!
WHEN YOU TRULY BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, YOU PREPARE FOR IT ALL!
Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier
#48. Scars are simply modern battle wounds. Sometimes the enemy happens to be inside us.
Andrew Grey
#49. He mouths something so slowly that his snarling lips articulate the sound of each and every letter, but I read them as though his silent words blast as loud as a battle cry. "Kill her!
Michelle Warren
#50. One battle in twelve might be won by a brilliant military stratagem. The rest stood or fell by somebody's blunders. Only rarely, there came the feel of a great campaign evolved by a stylist: imaginative, comprehensive, irresistible.
Dorothy Dunnett
#51. God almighty, in a few short hours we will be in battle with the enemy. We do not join battle afraid. We do not ask favors or indulgence but ask that, if You will, use us as Your instrument for the right and an aid in returning peace to the world.
Robert Lee Wolverton
#52. If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure 9 will go in the ditch and you have only one to battle with.
Calvin Coolidge
#53. Where the really sincere white people have got to do their 'proving' of themselves is not among the black victims, but out on the battle lines of where America's racism really is - and that's in their own home communities.
Malcolm X
#54. The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way.
James Hillman
#55. What's one hit when you win the battle?
J.J. McAvoy
#56. Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like troops in a battle,
All through the meadows the horses and cattle
Robert Louis Stevenson
#57. There was a time when obesity was the losing battle our people faced. Not so anymore. As soon as food became scarce, curves became coveted.
Laura Thalassa
#58. We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.
Herbert Hoover
#59. Comedy is the only weapon I have to battle totalitarianism.
Margaret Cho
#60. I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It's probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.
Grant Morrison
#61. I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive ... (it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence strategy.
Holland Smith
#62. Proper school nutrition must be complemented by activities outside of the cafeteria. The decisions parents make to keep their kids healthy are critical in fighting this battle on the home front.
Tom Vilsack
#63. Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of resistance, nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation.
James Martineau
#64. Hamilton saw America's essential nature being forged in the throes of battle, and that made honest action imperative.
Ron Chernow
#66. What dancing has helped me with is blocking; it makes me comfortable with my body. You know how to hit your mark, you know how to embody a swagger. But sitting down and looking across the table at another actor and being able to go to battle on screen is nothing to do with singing or dancing.
Columbus Short
#67. In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'
Abraham Verghese
#68. The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle. It will demand that the President place himself in the very thick of the fight; that he care passionately about the fate of the people he leads .
John F. Kennedy
#69. Prisoner of War guard companies, or an equivalent organization, should be as far forward as possible in action to take over prisoners of war, because troops heated with battle are not safe custodians. Any attempt to rob or loot prisoners of war by escorts must be dealt strictly with.
George S. Patton
#70. When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.
Plutarch
#71. The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all moments of it each to his individual enjoyment. While we battle with time, they relax with tempo.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#72. No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.
Bertrand Russell
#73. Jon relished the stories they were telling, tales of battle and bedding and the hunt. He
George R R Martin
#74. In the name of the Clave," he said, "I ask entry to this holy place. In the name of the Battle That Never Ends, I ask the use of your weapons. And in the name of the Angel Raziel, I ask your blessings on my mission against the darkness.
Cassandra Clare
#75. The battle of Kursk ... the forcing of the Dnieper ... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe.
Vasily Chuikov
#77. The only battles we face in love are the battle to know our worth and the battle to know when our boundaries need to be protected.
Shannon L. Alder
#78. I remember when I fell from my first bike:
There were no 'Are you okays?' and rarely 'Are you alrights?'
Just dirt in my pockets, handful of gravel ...
That's when I realized that getting up is only half the battle.
Big K.R.I.T.
#79. You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.
Neil Gaiman
#80. My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the world's constant upsetting of man's equilibrium, and his eternal battle to reestablish it.
Alfred Stieglitz
#81. way." You will battle with discontent until you let Christ be all that you need.
Craig Groeschel
#82. After a battle royale debate, the fight between [Marco]Rubio and [Donald]Trump gets ugly.
Chris Hayes
#83. Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism ... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.
R.C. Sproul
#84. The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.
Sebastian Junger
#85. No other tissue in the body relies solely on glucose for energy except the testes. (This is why men occasionally experience a battle for resources between their brains and their glands.)
Daniel J. Levitin
#86. I think all great wrestlers appreciate a good BATTLE
Kyle Dake
#87. Is it more virtuous, more noble, to suffer silently with brave, graceful dignity? Or is it preferable to fight an utterly hopeless battle against the inevitability of an insignificant, mediocre, obscure, mundane existence?
Austin Scott Collins
#88. Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.
Ryan White
#89. Rise up oh heart, for there is another battle to win.
T.A. Cline
#90. Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom.
Ahmed Yassin
#91. The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
Oswald Chambers
#92. I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go into a battle, suddenly you utter something passionate.
Ian McKellen
#93. Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland
Jacqueline Carey
#95. Droid Gotra, a lethal band of repurposed battle droids with what some considered legitimate grievances against the Empire for having been abandoned after their service during the Clone Wars.
John Jackson Miller
#96. Go, therefore, to meet the foe with two objects before you, either victory or death. For men animated by such a spirit must always overcome their adversaries, since they go into battle ready to throw away their lives.
Scipio Africanus
#97. God's will! my liege, would you and I alone, Without more help, could fight this royal battle!
William Shakespeare
#98. Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory
Jimmy Cliff
#99. Lincoln has become so addicted to the telegraph's instant news from the front that he still can't let go of the need for just one more bit of information, even though the prospect of another great battle is slim.
Bill O'Reilly
