Quotes About Picking Your Battles

#1. 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

#2. If you look at three diseases, the three major killers, HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, the only disease for which we have really good drugs is HIV. And it's very simple: because there's a market in the United States and Europe.

Jim Yong Kim

#3. Sometimes it seems to me that all the world, all life, everything, had taken up residence inside of me and was clamoring for me to be the spokesman.

Jack London

#4. Whoa. Parents must have been loaded. When he let out a loud laugh, it hit her that she must've said those words aloud.

Rosalie Lario

#5. My youth,
one time,
that time
I knew
even through the
nothingness,
it was a
celebration
of something not to
do
but only
know.

Charles Bukowski

#6. There are certain battles that you pick. When they're not worth picking, they're laughable stories.

David Beckham

#7. Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.

Kristin Armstrong

#8. The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.

Marla Gibbs

#9. They could be subjected to the worst of circumstances and yet give their love to the first person who showed it back. If people could learn that simple aspect, there might be a chance of saving this world.

Simon Wood

#10. Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?

John Ortberg