Quotes About Fighting Your Battles

#1. God is fighting your battles. When you're at rest, God will make your enemies your footstool.

Joel Osteen

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Sam Smith

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Brandon J. Greer

#9. 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

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

David Nicholls

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Charles Stanley

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

John Wagner

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

Socrates

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. No one can avoid defeat. That is why it is better to lose a few battles in the fight for your dreams than to be defeated without even knowing why you are fighting.

Paulo Coelho

#22. I was reminded as I was reviewing my life, that I have been in too many conflicts, too many wars, political battles, military battles, civil strifes in government. And always one lesson stands out and that is, those whom you fight most passionately often turn out to be your best friends.

Ferdinand Marcos

#23. But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

Paulo Coelho

#24. This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight ... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.

Barbara Walters

#25. Live is not about constantly fighting to keep someone in your life. It is about constantly fighting for a better life together.

Shannon L. Alder

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

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

Srividya Srinivasan

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

Robert P. Rowe

#32. 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

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

Thomas J. Harbin

#34. 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

#35. 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

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

Mercedes Lackey

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

L.E. Thomas

#38. 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

#39. 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

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

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#41. 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

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

George S. Patton

#43. 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

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

Jeaniene Frost

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

Kin F. Kam

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

Brigham Young

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

Rutherford B. Hayes

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

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

Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Ray Davies

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

Criss Jami

#59. 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

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

Ufuoma Apoki

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. 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