Quotes About Choosing Your Battles

#1. When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I think there's a lot that can be done to make the world a better place, but it's more about choosing your battles.

Conor Oberst

#2. You have to find the might, to climb the mountain.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. I am capable of choosing my battles, if that's what it takes to win the war.

Marissa Meyer

#4. Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles

George S. Patton

#5. I won the battles, Justin. And I won the war. And now there is no more fighting. Now there is peace. You told me to let the joy win out, and I am choosing to do that.

Jessica Park

#6. You have to choose your battles. The key is choosing the ones you know you can win.

Lesley Livingston

#7. I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.

Louise Penny

#8. Make your life like toilet paper. Long and usefull.

Wolfgang Riebe

#9. Buddhism asks big questions about birth and death, cause and effect, emptiness and form, delusion and enlightenment. I just hope you're not actually thinking about any of that stuff, because Buddhism is fundamentally about something that requires no thought.

Karen Maezen Miller

#10. It's as if your parents have to die before you really understand who they are.

William Klein

#11. Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.

David Mitchell