Top 100 The Battles Quotes
#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. Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory ... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.
Alfred Adler
#3. Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.
Charles R. Swindoll
#4. Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.
Dale Spender
#9. My Akri says that tragedy and adversity are the stones we sharpen our swords against ao that we can fight new battles.- Simi
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#10. 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
#11. Maggie had learned a long time ago that each day with a child was filled with two kinds of battles: those that won the war, and those that did not.
Sydney Strand
#12. We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.
Bill Scott
#13. Like sisters throughout time, whatever battles raged between them, it was always, always, all four of them against the rest of the world.
Elizabeth Noble
#14. 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
#15. Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise; for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.
Sun Tzu
#16. A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless' ...
Christopher Hitchens
#17. Witches, wolves, and moral friend There is horror that does not end War is waged and battles fought But have you stopped to count the cost? We are the ones backed by right We must strike with bold and might The cursed ones blamless be Warm them of the Hunters you see
Nancy Holder
#18. So far a lot of battles I have won, so far I have reached the game with the chess puzzles 105 level out of 350.
Deyth Banger
#19. Without darkness, we may never know how bright the stars shine. Without battles, we could not know what victory feels like. Without adversity, we may never appreciate the abundance in our lives. Be thankful, not only for the easy times, but for every experience that has made you who you are.
Julie-Anne
#20. Some of my battles with weight have been very public. But most of them have been internal. Even at my thinnest, when my body was being praised, I wasn't happy with what I saw in the mirror or how I felt about myself.
Janet Jackson
#21. Roger Bacon held that three classes of substance were capable of magic: the herbal, the mineral, and the verbal. With their leaves of fiber, their inks of copperas and soot, and their words, books are an amalgam of the three.
Matthew Battles
#22. I just never, ever want to give up. Most battles are won in the 11th hour, and most people give up. If you give up once, it's quite hard. If you give up a second time, it's a little bit easier. Give up a third time, it's starting to become a habit.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
#23. Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
Ezra Taft Benson
#24. The battles your enemy wages against you - especially the most acute, consistent ones - possess a personality to them, an intimate knowledge of who you are and the precise pressure points where you can most easily be taken down.
Priscilla Shirer
#25. Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.
John Bytheway
#26. Imperialism has been defeated in many partial battles. But it remains a considerable force in the world, and we cannot expect its final defeat save through effort and sacrifice on the part of all of us.
Che Guevara
#27. Scheduling flexibility is the single greatest non-financial tool
and the number-one dream-job factor
at your disposal for winning battles in the talent wars. Use it.
Bruce Tulgan
#28. Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.
Thomas Carlyle
#30. When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy
Brigham Young
#31. To all the defiant stoics, laughing and fighting lonesome battles in the face of adversity.
Kin F. Kam
#32. Real character is formed in the midst of the battles of the soul.
Hugh B. Brown
#33. Behind closed doors they had what were legendary battles I hear but when the doors opened there was absolute unity. Not a crack could be found. No separation whatsoever. They were locked together for the good of the community.
Maynard Jackson
#34. One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.
Sun Tzu
#35. We had to play the hand we were dealt, all of us. Fighting the battles we could win.
Jeaniene Frost
#36. she knew, the most important battles for dignity, pride, and progress were fought with the simplest of actions. It
Margot Lee Shetterly
#37. Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can't explain But I faithfully remain.
Ben Harper
#38. Although we may face untold numbers that by their sheer mass appear to render us as little more than a speck in the face of them, a single person standing with God amidst any mass will always be an indomitable majority.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#39. Men identified themselves with the Century with which they were associated professionally. Its battles, all too often, became their own battles.
Isaac Asimov
#40. It is not easy to shut out the world, set aside a few minutes by yourself, and spend time in God's Word and prayer. But it is essential if we are to grow in our relationship with God and be strengthened for the battles ahead. Don't delay. Begin now to spend time alone with God every day.
Billy Graham
#41. Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.
Mikhail Bakunin
#42. Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy, but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.
Sun Tzu
#43. I am capable of choosing my battles, if that's what it takes to win the war.
Marissa Meyer
#44. Our lives consist of a series of internal battles, deep within us, where weapons don't exist and technology is unable to create devices that better the best of yesterday. Our knowledge is our only defense; caution, our only friend.
A.J. Darkholme
#45. Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Walt Whitman
#46. If you're feeling discouraged and defeated - don't quit. Play on, hope on, and move forward. The music you play - even in the midst of incredible darkness - can and will turn the tide of your own battles.
Seth Adam Smith
#47. The most valuable real estate for a man is the woman's mind.
Many bloody battles have been fought for her mind space!
Sanjai Velayudhan
#48. As our God Most High fights, we flourish. As err his people flourish, our God strikes the killing blow. The battles in heaven are seen on earth, and the battles of earth do not escape the notice of heaven. We flourish when we are one with each other and with heaven's purpose.
Lisa Bevere
#49. It is one of the secrets of happiness that you know which battles you can win and which you can't.
Robert B. Parker
#50. t is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.
Vince Lombardi Jr.
#51. 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
#52. We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.
Tony Curtis
#53. By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.
Emmett Kelly
#54. even if we only gain a psychological advantage, that can mean the difference between victory and defeat. I'm reminded of the words of my father the king, who says that battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength." Syazarees
Xenophon
#55. We have a historic system in place since the early part of the last century and this is going to be one of the biggest battles in California if we decide to take it on.
Marc Levine
#56. Politics has become a game of meaningless, mindless battles, conducted by unscrupulous methods and people, designed to transform even the most serious policy debates into sport.
Al Gore
#57. One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom.
Robert M. Gates
#58. She's not the kind of girl you choose your battles for. She's the kind of girl you fight to the death for.
Colleen Hoover
#59. 12
Lose Battles, But Win The War: Grand Strategy
Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.
Robert Greene
#60. In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
Theodore Bikel
#61. Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#62. 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
#63. Inward battles had lost their chains in the new dawn of Ed's night, and victories were cheering in the calm welcome of new thoughts carrying new perspectives that warmed the tone of his confidence, and made it glow.
Calvin W. Allison
#64. Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.
Frederick The Great
#65. Fortes fortuna adiuvat, Marcello had said to his men. Fortune favors the brave, the bold.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#66. Your trials equal the power of God that works in you. If your battles are intense, then what God has deposited in you is deep.
Paul Gitwaza
#67. I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.
August Strindberg
#68. You hold the ones you love close and fight the battles you can win, and that, Kitten, is how it is.
Jeaniene Frost
#69. Be smart! Fight the battles you can win and accept the ones you can't. That's how you survive.
C.J. Roberts
#71. the way of men. One fights one's battles alone, not asking mercy nor expecting help.
Louis L'Amour
#72. The only battles that he and his kin fought, the only blood they spilt was on the chessboard. Massacres and carnage were not to his taste. He preferred the long, slow, tortuous death. I
Kiran Nagarkar
#73. Demos are mock battles, never the real thing. Everybody knows where they're going to happen, and when and why. Nobody gets seriously hurt. Well, not unless they ask for it. (ch. 4)
John Le Carre
#74. You have to choose your battles. The key is choosing the ones you know you can win.
Lesley Livingston
#75. When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.
Chinua Achebe
#76. the earliest battles flared between himself and fellow physicist Leonard Susskind over whether quantum mechanics implied that information could leak out of black holes.
David Kaiser
#77. The sun is rising with a bright golden glittering glint. Let us wake up to enjoy the joyful battles of light and darkness.
Debasish Mridha
#78. Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.
William Wordsworth
#79. That night I did it. I used a utility knife from our garage. It was amazing. For that brief moment, all the tension, anxiety, stress I put on myself disappeared. It went up in a cloud of smoke and my head was finally clear after months of endless internal battles.
S.M. Koz
#80. 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
#81. The Negro people of America ... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
#82. My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.
David Miliband
#83. He had found his vocation: to fight the Lord's battles in the Academy and the world at large.
Philip Zaleski
#84. Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#85. What happens to you, Uhtred, is what you make happen. You will grow, you will learn the sword, you will learn the way of the shield wall, you will learn the oar, you will give honor to the gods, and then you will use what you have learned to make your life good or bad.
Bernard Cornwell
#86. In the Han Dynasty, Xiang
Yu was very brave and won
many battles, but in the end
he failed. Treat people with
sincerity and build a good
organization. Otherwise, it
doesn't matter how famous
or how capable you are.
Li Ka-shing
#87. 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
#88. I'd say that I'm also recommending [Equilibrium] for the cool gun battles.
Richard Roeper
#89. And who had the honor to be, as a child, the play-fellow of our king, Louis XIII, whom God preserve! Sometimes their play degenerated into battles, and in these
Alexandre Dumas
#90. Life is seen as an ongoing war between art and philistinism - and although the philistines may win some of the battles, it is literature that always wins the war.
Helon Habila
#91. 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
#92. Well, obviously, I'm not allowed to speak about the legal battles, but I love lesbians.
Jennifer Nettles
#93. A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his small battles writ large in the wars of titans or elves and understand for the first time, his own worth.
Michael D. O'Brien
#94. Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Winston S. Churchill
#95. In my life, I've been both the besieged and the besieged, and I know damned well which I prefer!
Sharon Kay Penman
#96. It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation.
Barack Obama
#97. I had pictured journalism as I'd seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and is triumphant. There are journalists who fit that ideal.
Tom Rachman
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, We will fight our country's battles in the air, on land and sea. First to fight for right and freedom, and to keep our honor clean, We are proud to claim the title of United States Marines. - Marine Corps Hymn
Tom Clancy
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