Top 100 Quotes About Battles
#1. The bow is tactically strong at the commencement of battle, especially battles on a moor, as it is possible to shoot quickly among the spearmen.
Miyamoto Musashi
#2. 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
#3. For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles; but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels.
Aldous Huxley
#4. Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me
Giuseppe Garibaldi
#5. Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam's mind.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#6. As we face our vulnerability and weakness, there are things you and I should pray for regularly. We should pray for purity of desire, wisdom to recognize the enemy's tricks, and strength to fight the battles we can't avoid.
Paul David Tripp
#7. You have to fight extraordinary battles to win extraordinary victories.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#8. Ultimately, we don't want to develop techniques to win behavior management battles, we want to develop techniques that allow us to avoid the battles altogether.
Dave Burgess
#9. Sow the help of God into your daily battles, and reap a harvest of victory.
Katy Kauffman
#10. Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.
John Sterling
#11. 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
#12. Let everyone, everywhere know that where Your name is called upon, Your people can win battles they never should've won.
Karen Kingsbury
#14. I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
Hari Kunzru
#15. As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.
Kevin McCloud
#16. Plato said, be kind to everyone you meet for we are all fighting difficult battles.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#17. So many of my family and friends had lost their battles against cancer. What could I do that my relatives and friends had not? What could I do that would be different?
Michael Milken
#18. To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill
Sun Tzu
#19. It became the middle finger I couldn't raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles I was losing with higher headquarters on rules, targets, and fighting the war.
Robin Olds
#20. The greatest battles are fought in the mind.
Casey Treat
#21. When people send people on summer camps or bonding trips, they send them to do things like high rope climbing or extraordinary things. And when you do extraordinary things with people, like fighting battles or simulating huge wars, you do bond very quickly.
Anna Popplewell
#22. Standing up for yourself is about more than flinging barbed-wire insults around. Its about picking your battles, knowing when to fight, knowing exactly what and who is worth fighting for.
Paula Stokes
#23. No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
Vince Lombardi
#24. Better to give the man what he wanted and save the objections for the battles worth fighting.
Orson Scott Card
#25. The past makes a good bishop but a poor king ... it's good to take counsel from the past but not to be ruled by it. Otherwise we end up using today to fight yesterday's battles and miss tomorrow's promise.
Richard Paul Evans
#26. I've lost a lot of battles, but I've never lost sight of the war. My goal is to fight my way to a day when we're old and gray and she looks at me and says 'I'm glad you never gave up.' Until then, I fight. No retreat, baby. No surrender.
Hank Moody
#27. I said before, that I have learnt much by guiding others. In the first place I see that all souls have more or less the same battles to fight, and on the other hand, that one soul differs widely from another, so each must be dealt with differently.
Therese De Lisieux
#29. Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have. It is about being as functional as possible throughout our entire lives and avoiding crippling, painful and lengthy battles with disease. There are many better ways to die, and to live.
T. Colin Campbell
#32. Even in the most uneventful of our lives, we are called upon to choose our battles...
Arundhati Roy
#33. It isn't equipment that wins the battles; it is the quality and the determination of the people fighting for a cause in which they believe.
Gene Kranz
#34. found out later that he lived alone, surrounded by books, both his own and other people's, and that as well as being a hired hunter of books he was an expert on Napoleon's battles. He could set out on a board, from memory, the exact positions of troops on the eve of Waterloo. A
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#36. Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
Nathan Myhrvold
#37. To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than to destroy them. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the supreme of excellence. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence.
Sun Tzu
#38. I know Quebecers don't want to relive old battles; they prefer to build for the future.
Kim Campbell
#39. Battles are followed by years of famine.
Laozi
#40. Fights were recounted, battles won amid wars sure to be lost; hope was clung to; families were both celebrated and denounced;
John Green
#41. In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles ...
Jane Porter
#42. Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to engage in endless - and often highly technical - national and international policy battles.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#43. My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#44. Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw.
Jules Feiffer
#46. The wearying battles of the civil rights movement have not cured everything.
Jon M. Dennis
#47. You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here.
Paulo Coelho
#48. I've seen Joe take on many battles, cancer being one of them, and the determination that he has, and he won't stop, he's not going to make one announcement and write one editorial and go away.
Joe Eszterhas
#49. We have so many battles going on in America today that we should be a people of prayer. Our government needs prayer. Our leaders need prayer. Our schools need prayer. Our youth need our prayers. Our families need our prayers.
Billy Graham
#50. We honor our heroic and patriotic dead by being true men, as true men by faithfully fighting the battles of our day as they fought the battles of their day.
David McMurtrie Gregg
#51. The bottom line remains the same: you're either awake or you're not.One day, there it is. Nothing. No more enemies, no more battles.
Jed McKenna
#52. Jesus never taught revolution, the kind with swords and battles and bloodshed. He talked about a revolution of love. Love your neighbor. Love your enemy.
Janette Oke
#53. To wage war on depression is to fight against oneself, and it is important to know that in advance of the battles.
Andrew Solomon
#54. Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.
John Steinbeck
#55. Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Norman Mailer
#56. No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.
Tiffany Thornton
#57. You can support trans-positive legislation, tranny artists, and the inclusion of trannies in your neighborhood, schools, place of worship, whatever. For the long term? Join or initiate some good legal battles against the puritanical laws that exist around sex and gender.
Kate Bornstein
#58. I'm a lover, not a fighter. No battles for me.
Jason Mraz
#59. Unconditional parents want to know how to do something other than threaten and punish. They don't see their relationship with their children as adversarial, so their goal is to avoid battles, not win them.
Alfie Kohn
#60. Today and onwards, I stand proud, for the bridges I've climbed, for the battles I've won, and for the examples I've set, but most importantly, for the person I have become. I like who I am now, finally, at peace with me...
Heather James
#61. Get the mind right, the body will follow, you lose some battles in life, but if you always put your heart and passion forward first as your main objective, you will win the war, that's what gives you the strength to get off the ground ... and do it again.
Greg Plitt
#66. It wasn't his job to make things suffer - he was just here to win battles. Whatever it took.
Anonymous
#67. Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.
Joaquin Miller
#68. The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril ... It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.
Winston Churchill
#70. Keep striving, for God gives His hardest battles to His strongest soldiers.
Habeeb Akande
#71. When after many battles past,
Both tir'd with blows,
make peace at last,
What is it, after all, the people get?
Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt.
Francis Daniels Moore
#72. Battles I lose none I make crews run
I get fools done, got ten fingers but only use one
Big L
#74. Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There are new-born fanaticisms. Convictions on the part of certain peoples that they have become the unique depositories of ultimate truth and right.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#75. Be there for your children. Sit on the bed and enjoy the late-night talks - try to stay awake! Pray for the Lord to inspire you. Forgive often. Choose your battles. Testify frequently of Jesus Christ and His goodness and of the Restoration. And most of all, let them know of your trust in the Lord.
Bonnie D. Parkin
#76. I see myself living by correct principles and accomplishing worthy purposes. One of my favorite quotes is, "The greatest battles of life are fought out every day in the silent chambers of one's own soul." (David O. McKay).
Stephen Covey
#77. As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents ...
Paul Johnson
#78. Some of the hardest battles we fight are those against the demons of our past, over which we have no control.
Charles F. Glassman
#79. Know'st thou not there is but one theme for ever-enduring bards? And that is the theme of War, the fortune of battles, The making of perfect soldiers.
Walt Whitman
#80. He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
Homer
#81. She had always assumed that her life would end inside the war, that the war itself would be her eternal present, as it was for Darrow and for her brother. The possibility of time going on, her memories growing dim, the photographs of the battles turning from life into history terrified her.
Tatjana Soli
#82. People in America get up and go to their nine-to-five jobs every day and are oblivious to all these battles and wars and people dying every minute all over the world. This is life. This is how other countries live. This is a daily occurrence in some places.
Mitchell Zuckoff
#83. Call Malcolm Price (Pricey) a 'chancer' and you would be wrong. Pricey has, with premeditated determination, won his battles and hung his gloves up; his story is no less dramatic or tantalising than that of his Welsh ancestors.
Stephen Richards
#84. At least I fight my own battles, Alister,' Micah said.
'Really? And exactly why did you go cackling to the dean?
Cinda Williams Chima
#85. Not that she didn't about fighting losing battles.
Lisa Unger
#86. The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide ...
A.J.P. Taylor
#87. The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.
Nancy Gibbs
#88. Battles waged in daylight are fought by soldiers. Battles waged at night are fought by savages.
Lance Conrad
#89. The Continental army got more generals than they got private soldiers, these days. An officer lives through more 'n two battles, they make him some kind of general on the spot. Now, gettin' any pay for it, that's a different kettle of fish.
Diana Gabaldon
#90. Poor, dear old Mack, he was ninety-eight per cent perfect. His two percent failing was that he had absolutely no idea of the value or the power of arbitration. He was the veteran of a hundred battles, and I never once could say to the other fellow, 'Your dog started it.
William S. Hart
#91. Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.
Peter Ustinov
#92. Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. ... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.
Oliver Stone
#93. The page is as white as my face after a night of weeping. It is as sterile as my devastated mind. All martyrdoms are in vain. He also is drowning in the blood of too much sacrifice.
Lay aside the weapons, love, for all battles are lost.
Elizabeth Smart
#94. If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Sun Tzu
#95. The noble person who has eaten of his lord's bounty should die in his lord's battles; to return to one's home dead and wrapped in a horse's hide is a happy fate. Am I the sort of people to bring to nought the grand designs of my country?
Zhou Yu
#96. Gradually, Hopkins came to see that his battles with despair and darkness were somehow included in God's loving purposes.
Wesley Hill
#97. The strongest people are people who faced the toughest situations in life. People who are defeated by the toughest battles are stronger than those who have won by using the escape route!
Israelmore Ayivor
#98. As long as you want the belt, don't run away from the fight. Do what it takes to win the battles you face.
Israelmore Ayivor
#99. All my battles were with male egos. I'm just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.
Joni Mitchell
#100. You've just got to get over that mental hurdle and those battles in your own head during matches when things aren't going so well. It takes time. It's probably all things I already knew, but for someone to talk about it maybe in a different way makes you realise things.
Samantha Stosur
