Top 100 The Battles Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy
Brigham Young
#4. Real character is formed in the midst of the battles of the soul.
Hugh B. Brown
#5. We had to play the hand we were dealt, all of us. Fighting the battles we could win.
Jeaniene Frost
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. You hold the ones you love close and fight the battles you can win, and that, Kitten, is how it is.
Jeaniene Frost
#11. Be smart! Fight the battles you can win and accept the ones you can't. That's how you survive.
C.J. Roberts
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Truces may stop the battles, but part of you will always feel like you're at war.
David Levithan
#16. Saga of Tristan and Danika. The battles and the victories. The defeats and the triumphs. The tragedies and the trials. Somewhere in the middle, I had him tearing up,
R.K. Lilley
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.
Mike Wallace
#22. That the battles are usually in her head does not lessen the bravery of it. The hardest ones always are.
William Ritter
#23. The battles, the fights, the bruises, the bites. That's the way true love grows.
Ray Davies
#24. They will heal anyway, with time. We ... are strong. It takes more ... to conquer us.Scars don't matter, little one. They are the marks of the battles we have won.
Helen Dunmore
#25. The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman, the prizes will be for those who most effectively exert their brains, who take deep, earnest and studious counsel of their minds, who stamp themselves as thinkers.
B.C. Forbes
#26. The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony.
Samuel Logan Brengle
#27. And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.
James Hilton
#28. I made this decision years ago, son. We have to fight the battles we have a chance of winning.
Brandon Sanderson
#29. The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in.
Harold Clarke Goddard
#30. I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#31. I call myself a Peaceful Warrior ... because the battles we fight are on the inside
Socrates
#32. The ordinary man says in his ignorance, "My religion is the sole religion, my religion is the best." But when his heart is illuminated by the true knowledge, he knows that beyond all the battles of sects and of sectaries presides the one, indivisible, eternal and omnipresent Benediction.
Ramakrishna
#33. Almost all people suffer some form of intense inner pain at some times in their lives. The suffering might be depression, anxiety, substance abuse, or suicidal thoughts and it results from the battles we wage against our thoughts as we futilely try to get rid of our historie.
Steven C. Hayes
#34. Our character isn't defined by the battles we win or lose, but by the battles we dare to fight.
Robert Beatty
#35. Tree is a soldier, forest is an army! And let us wish that all the battles against this army is lost!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#36. That one small noise brought back the old days to the children's minds more than anything that had happened yet. All the battles and hunts and feasts came rushing into their heads together.
C.S. Lewis
#37. Nevertheless this was life. I could wish that life was fair and that things were different, but this is what it was and I was determined to make the best of it. I needed to move forward, and fight the battles put in front of me and cherish the friendships that surrounded me.
Rachel Higginson
#38. The truth has to be unveiled. If the West insists, if it keeps pushing, the battles have to be fought. And they will be fought.
Andre Vltchek
#39. I don't let things stress me out, and I'm doing my best with all the battles life presents.
Jake Shears
#40. 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
#41. The greatest warriors never ask for the battles they are fighting. They only rise to meet the challenge.
Brandon J. Greer
#42. And I got used to the battles. Getting shot at was just part of the job. RPG round? Just another day at the office.
Chris Kyle
#43. In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V, which relied on a chorus to explain in words the battles of Harfleur and Agincourt that could never be captured on the Elizabethan stage.
Ian Doescher
#44. And she knew that her fate wasn't set by how or where she was born, but the decisions she made and the battles she fought. It didn't matter if she had eight toes or ten, amber eyes or blue. What mattered was what she set out to do.
Robert Beatty
#45. This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as the gentleman from Georgia has mentioned, this is not something that is going to be quick and easy.
Marsha Blackburn
#46. Later, when the battles are won and the world is theirs, I will tell them about her. I will sing to them of Siri.
Dan Simmons
#47. Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
#48. We can't afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result. And that's a risk we can't take.
Barack Obama
#49. the greatest trick of kings is to fool the poor into thinking we have common cause with the rich simply because we live on the same bog. Then the poor get their heads split open in the battles they fight so the rich can keep their wine cellars well stocked.
Kate Horsley
#50. we fight every battle with our imaginations: the battles within, the battles in the world beyond. This is the truth of command, and a warrior must learn command, of oneself and of others. It
Steven Erikson
#51. The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.
Ira Hayes
#52. 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
#53. The best way to end a war is to make certain that it never happens. The best way to win a war is to change the shape of the battles to suit your needs.
James A. Moore
#54. His hard stare told me to pick my battles carefully. What he didn't realize was that maybe I'd been storing up past battles in my head for too long and soon all the battles were going to break through the surface and turn me into a maniac.
R.S. Grey
#55. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives.
Eugene V. Debs
#56. The innocent should never have to suffer from the battles of others. (Valerius) I know, but it seems to always be the case. (Acheron) A furore infra, libera nos - spare us from the fury within. (Valerius)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#57. Everything in New Orleans was competitive. People would always be betting on who was the best and the greatest in everything. That's where the battles of music came in.
Danny Barker
#58. Benedict somehow found the words he needed. "I give up, Evander. All the battles, the fights. The walls. Broken, defeated, breached. You've won.
Jae T. Jaggart
#59. Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!
Terry Pratchett
#60. During the battles last night and at dawn, they [ Ba'th Socialist Party fighters] had destroyed three American helicopters
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#61. Tolstoi made the writing of Stephen Crane on the Civil War seem like the brilliant imagining of a sick boy who had never seen war but had only read the battles and chronicles and seen the Brady
Ernest Hemingway,
#62. 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
#63. As we face our vulnerability and weakness, there are things you and I should pray for regularly. We should pray for purity of desire, wisdom to recognize the enemy's tricks, and strength to fight the battles we can't avoid.
Paul David Tripp
#64. Ultimately, we don't want to develop techniques to win behavior management battles, we want to develop techniques that allow us to avoid the battles altogether.
Dave Burgess
#65. Better to give the man what he wanted and save the objections for the battles worth fighting.
Orson Scott Card
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. To wage war on depression is to fight against oneself, and it is important to know that in advance of the battles.
Andrew Solomon
#69. The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.
Nancy Gibbs
#70. Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. ... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.
Oliver Stone
#71. As long as you want the belt, don't run away from the fight. Do what it takes to win the battles you face.
Israelmore Ayivor
#72. The battles over women's bodies can be won only by a revolution of the mind
Mona Eltahawy
#73. The world isn't black and white, good or bad. The battles that make a real difference are fought in the murky area in between, where the greater good requires brutal sacrifice. Where both the means and the ends are just shadows in a featureless gray landscape. And that was the death of my idealism.
Rachel Vincent
#74. She had always assumed that her life would end inside the war, that the war itself would be her eternal present, as it was for Darrow and for her brother. The possibility of time going on, her memories growing dim, the photographs of the battles turning from life into history terrified her.
Tatjana Soli
#76. Today and onwards, I stand proud, for the bridges I've climbed, for the battles I've won, and for the examples I've set, but most importantly, for the person I have become. I like who I am now, finally, at peace with me...
Heather James
#77. Exactly, Kitten.Your pride isn't worth it. It's not worth the pain. It's not worth the torture I, or anyone else could put you through. It sure as fuck isn't worth your life. Be smart! Fight the battles you can win and accept the ones you can't. That's how you survive. - Caleb
C.J. Roberts
#78. If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to you, if you can have a laugh about it, and don't take yourself so serious, you have the battles halfway won.
Jack Bruce
#79. Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games, the battles were real, and the only enemy you fought was the buggers.
Orson Scott Card
#80. After all the battles I've fought to save the world and all the sacrifices in dignity and blood I've paid to set free so many Dark-Hunters, they're all going to know that I'm nothing but a pathetic whore, aren't they? (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#81. We probably lose the battles, but we win the wars!
Deyth Banger
#82. All the battles and wars I been through, and all the battle scars I got it's been a learning experience. Everything I been through made me the man I am so if it was different I would be different so I would say that I really learned something from every situation.
Kurupt
#83. When you are all wasted
by the battles of life
And finally,
given up on ideologies
An embalming hand comes out of Grace
Race towards it
Hold it
Embrace it
Cut off your garments
Expose your wounds
Bare your heart
Heal
Forget
Live
Gabriel Iqbal
#84. Wait a minute; I thought the Battles didn't pay the ransom." "No, they did but they got it back - well, at least most of it.
David Baldacci
#85. 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
#86. The medical professionals should fight PTSD at every cost for those living in pain and the battles they've lost.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#87. I have not given thought to what comes after the battles. Perhaps I will rule. Is that not the right of a conqueror?
Conn Iggulden
#88. The best thing about the battle between the sexes is often the sex between the battles.
Mardy Grothe
#89. From what Ayyan had heard of the battles of the Brahmins, it would be bloodless but brutal. They would fight like demons armed with nothing more than deceit and ideals - another form of deceit among men from good families.
Manu Joseph
#90. But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.
Tom Hanks
#91. Her father lov'd me; oft invited me;
Still question'd me the story of my life,
From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,
That I have pass'd.
William Shakespeare
#92. Each generation thinks it fights new battles. But the battles are the same. Only the people are different.
Chaim Potok
#93. The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at. - Jesse Owens
Adam Goucher
#94. Procrastination and fear are the enemies of success; the war is lifelong, but the battles are daily.
Noel DeJesus
#95. Really? Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!" He hesitated, and then shrugged. "And you say bought and sold? All right. But not, I think, needlessly spent." The
Terry Pratchett
#96. Real winning and losing all takes place at the meditation table. This is where the battles are. Winning is stopping thought. Losing is sitting there and being subjected to all kinds of ridiculous thoughts
Frederick Lenz
#97. Sometimes, the scariest thing you will ever have to do is trust God to fight the battles you can no longer fight.
Shannon L. Alder
#98. Yes, from now on, Adolin would lead the battles. Dalinar would change the world.
Brandon Sanderson
#99. It's all a learning process. You've got to learn from experience, the battles you go through. Some guys continue to grow. Hopefully, that's what I'll continue do.
Paul Pierce
#100. 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
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