Top 100 Quotes About Fighting Battles: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Fighting Battles

#1. The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by.

Maureen Dowd

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

George S. Patton

#3. Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#4. Don't keep fighting battles that are already lost.

David Nicholls

#5. Would you lesson me in warfare? I was fighting battles when you were sucking mother's milk.
And losing battles too.

George R R Martin

#6. If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.

Paul Haggis

#7. 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

#8. Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

#9. King David is a wonderful example of a well-balanced man who was a warrior fighting battles on some days and a gentle, harp-playing composer on other days.

Vicki Courtney

#10. Why does anyone fight a war? To protect a way of life, to find or support loved ones. To avenge those lost. Or maybe because it's a calling. Because someone has to. Because there's a line no enemy should be allowed to cross.

Tracy Banghart

#11. The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one battle to fight-the battle of the heart.

Anthony The Great

#12. It's strange, but once you learn to fight, you seem to attract enemies ... Sooner or later, those who master the art of combat must end up fighting.

Nahoko Uehashi

#13. Rather than fight the same tired battles that have dominated Washington for decades, it's time to try something new. Let's invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt. Let's meet our responsibility to the citizens who sent us here. Let's try common sense.

Barack Obama

#14. Her feelings of fear and helplessness had reached such a pitch that they were suddenly transformed into their opposites. Having overcome them, she felt corageous and self-confident enough to tackle any power on earth; more precisely, she had ceased to worry about herself.

Michael Ende

#15. Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides.

Aleksandra Layland

#16. You'd put our parents at risk for some piece of tail?" Ghleanna demanded.
"She saved my life."
"You can fight your own battles!"
"Not when I'm knocked out on my ass!"
"You mean knocked out on your fat ass!"
"My ass, like the rest of me, is perfection!

G.A. Aiken

#17. Be kind to people and don't judge, for you do not know what demons they carry and what battles they are fighting.

Vashti Quiroz-Vega

#18. When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy

Brigham Young

#19. To all the defiant stoics, laughing and fighting lonesome battles in the face of adversity.

Kin F. Kam

#20. We had to play the hand we were dealt, all of us. Fighting the battles we could win.

Jeaniene Frost

#21. That's why I love fighting, because I get to have a big battle every couple months to make up for the little battles I have to forfeit every day

Ronda Rousey

#22. 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

#23. Fortes fortuna adiuvat, Marcello had said to his men. Fortune favors the brave, the bold.

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#24. There must always be those with the fire of rebellion in their blood! There must always be those who will dare to fight an unbeatable enemy! Only thus can the race of man remain strong and fearless!

Stan Lee

#25. The Government, Church and television keep the average man so mired in petty concerns that he can no longer discern which battles are worth fighting for.

J. Nozipo Maraire

#26. It doesn't matter who started it or what it's really about ... war usually ends up sucking most for women. Even when we're not fighting the battles ourselves, we somehow always end up with the lion's share of the suffering.

Brian K. Vaughan

#27. I think I'm aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles.

Barry Zito

#28. Part of the problem that we have currently in the Middle East is that[Bashar] Assad has hung on to power with the very strong support of Russia and Iran and with the proxy of Hezbollah being there basically fighting his battles.

Hillary Clinton

#29. The fastest runners don't always win the race and the greatest heroes don't always win the battles. But just keep running and fighting if that's all you can do. Never lose faith. And one day, you just might attain all that you hoped for and ... more.

Jose N. Harris

#30. There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person's mind.

Shannon L. Alder

#31. None but those who have traveled, can appreciate the delight experienced from recalling in this way the interesting points of an interesting journey, and fighting, as it were, their battles over again.

James Holman

#32. When dragons attack, the only thing you should seek to stand behind is your own sword.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#33. Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together an open competitive society and successful economy with a just and decent society.

Tony Blair

#34. Living to give to others, working hard for your destiny
and fighting for your dreams are the battles you will never regret no matter how long it takes.

Michael Hutchison

#35. Mr Cricket: So what are you going to do?
Rose Red: Fight like a motherfucker, of course. Fight like I've got a chance. Hell if I'm just going to roll over and show throat.

Bill Willingham

#36. The only advice that I'm in the mood to give - and that I give regularly - to young people is this: fight for what you believe in. You will lose, just like I have lost, all the battles. But only one you may win. The one that you engage every morning, in front of the mirror.

Indro Montanelli

#37. I've lost so many battles than I can even remember. But I didn't know I was stronger than I thought.

Ufuoma Apoki

#38. Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles.

Anna Quindlen

#39. I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.

Criss Jami

#40. The battles, the fights, the bruises, the bites. That's the way true love grows.

Ray Davies

#41. Fear never leaves you. It just adapts to you. And that's the meaning of strengthening a warrior spirit from within, as you can't fight all your battles with the same weapons.

Bryan Keyleader

#42. Yes, yes; you've read thousands of books but you've never tried to read your own self; you rush into your temples, into your mosques, but you have never tried to enter your own heart; futile are all your battles with the devil for you have never tried to fight your own desires.

Bulleh Shah

#43. Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.

Myrtle Reed

#44. I call myself a Peaceful Warrior ... because the battles we fight are on the inside

Socrates

#45. I guess sometimes you just have to fight your battles.

John Wagner

#46. I eternally fight internal battles about developing things that only appeal to the East Coast and the West Coast. For years I've been trying to do a Western, nobody's interested in doing a Western, how can that be?

Edward Allen Bernero

#47. The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.

Elizabeth Prentiss

#48. Fight all your battles on your knees and you win every time.

Charles Stanley

#49. What a battle a man must fight everywhere to maintain his standing army of thoughts, and march with them in orderly array throughthe always hostile country! How many enemies there are to sane thinking! Every soldier has succumbed to them before he enlists for those other battles.

Henry David Thoreau

#50. The attack came without warning, in the pre-dawn stillness on the day they were due to leave. A series of solid concussions shook the walls and sent Simon scrambling from his bunk. Max thrust a handgun at him, which he immediately fumbled and dropped.

A. Ashley Straker

#51. Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow.

Allen Ginsberg

#52. The greatest warriors never ask for the battles they are fighting. They only rise to meet the challenge.

Brandon J. Greer

#53. The battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you'd rather love than fight.

Taylor Swift

#54. No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

Philip Danforth Armour

#55. If you're seeking progress, all presidents are the opposition. You're just fighting different kinds of battles -

Sam Smith

#56. The War was decided in the first twenty days of fighting, and all that happened afterwards consisted in battles which, however formidable and devastating, were but desperate and vain appeals against the decision of Fate.

Winston S. Churchill

#57. I think it's one of the most important battles for consumers to fight: the right to know what's in their food, and how it was grown.

Joel Salatin

#58. Sometimes we find ourselves fighting tooth and nail for something we think we want, when, in reality, what we really want comes not from giving up, but from being wise enough to choose which battles are worth fighting.

Samantha Hartley

#59. Somewhere along the line you quit etching your kills on the side of your fighter.

L.E. Thomas

#60. I'm tired of being alone, and fighting my battles alone.

Mercedes Lackey

#61. It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.

Frederick Lenz

#62. You're a clever strategist, but not all battles require tricks. Sometimes the simplest way to kill something is to swim up to it and bite it in half.

Shaun Hick

#63. One of the differences between assertiveness and aggressiveness is deciding which battles are worth fighting and which are not.

Thomas J. Harbin

#64. Our battle of wills would never be complete. But there was no battle worth fighting if it would tear us apart.

Robert P. Rowe

#65. Be very very very gentle with yourself. The world is very very very hard on you

Srividya Srinivasan

#66. Going against oneself is the hardest of all battles, but is it really worth it?

Ahmed Mostafa

#67. Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.

Criss Jami

#68. You have to stick to your guns and still know when to be flexible. That's something I've had to learn-which battles to fight.

Martina Mcbride

#69. It's better to lose some of battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you're fighting for.

Paulo Coelho

#70. Brothers, we must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other's battles; and more than all, we must love the Great Spirit.

Tecumseh

#71. If you saw the size of the BLESSING YOU ARE BECOMING, you would understand the magnitude of the battle you are fighting!

Michele Jennae

#72. Sometimes being a great teacher means learning to function in a dysfunctional environment. Save your fighting strength until you have enough experience to be taken seriously, and until you know which battles o fight.

Roxanna Elden

#73. I languish around in my life, never quite doing what I set out to do. I am tired of being a silver medalist, and tired of fighting uphill battles that I only sort of win.

Kim Gruenenfelder

#74. Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.

Charles Hamilton Houston

#75. We must conquer the fear to avoid losing the battle.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#76. At the end of the day, I fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. If that makes me an outlaw, so be it. I've been called worse.

Angela Parkhurst

#77. There are actually people who go out and re-fight these battles. You know what I say? Use real ammunition! You just might raise the intelligence level of the American gene pool!

George Carlin

#78. Recovering alcoholic guys wake up in the morning, and they have to think of a reason to get up, and then, once they're up, to not have a drink. It's like all these little heroic battles they have that they fight with and against every day of their lives.

Liam Neeson

#79. A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

Ben Okri

#80. Some battles aren't worth fighting

Paula Hawkins

#81. Whether the issue was black political power or nuclear power, Scott-Heron didn't mince words. His comeback record, 'I'm New Here,' doesn't mince words either, but instead of political battles, these songs suggest he's fighting personal ones.

Will Hermes

#82. All Individuals in this world struggle and fight their own battles.Very Few choose to fight the battles worth fighting for.The ones that serve as an instrument of liberation,an instrument of hope and everything that is right with this world.

Mohammad Rafiq Teli

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. Plato said, be kind to everyone you meet for we are all fighting difficult battles.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. Better to give the man what he wanted and save the objections for the battles worth fighting.

Orson Scott Card

#90. You only fight well for causes you yourself have shaped, with which you identify - and burn.

Rene Char

#91. Sometimes battles are unavoidable.

Shannon A. Thompson

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. 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

#95. 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