To Battle Quotes

#1. First lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured

Sun Tzu

#2. What dancing has helped me with is blocking; it makes me comfortable with my body. You know how to hit your mark, you know how to embody a swagger. But sitting down and looking across the table at another actor and being able to go to battle on screen is nothing to do with singing or dancing.

Columbus Short

#3. Comedy is the only weapon I have to battle totalitarianism.

Margaret Cho

#4. If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure 9 will go in the ditch and you have only one to battle with.

Calvin Coolidge

#5. Darwin was a dreamer, I can assure you. No evolution or anything of the sort. For every one who can reason, I have to battle with nine orangutans.
Don Anacleto

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#6. The outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill; an utter yearning to produce in all ways, to battle as much as possible against time that drags us along, and the distractions that throw a veil over our soul.

Eugene Delacroix

#7. In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free.

William J. Clinton

#8. To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#9. No, my darling. I'll love the woman you keep hidden inside you. You've led men to battle, but never into your heart. Men respect you, they obey you, but they see you as a warrior. You've never had the chance to blossom.

Susan Wiggs

#10. The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

Horatio Nelson

#11. When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

Sitting Bull

#12. I learned the Norse gods came with their own doomsday: Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods, the end of it all. The gods were going to battle the frost giants, and they were all going to die.

Had Ragnarok happened yet? Was it still to happen? I did not know then. I am not certain now.

Neil Gaiman

#13. They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn

Aeschylus

#14. I don't think I'm good, I don't think I'm a good rapper. I think a lot of people always want me to battle somebody and stuff like that which is cool, but I don't see myself as a rapper.

Donald Glover

#15. My first songs were energetic because I liked their energy. When I used to battle people every day, I had to go hard. If someone went harder than me, they left with the win. I haven't lost since I was 12 years old.

Meek Mill

#16. It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.

Billy Gibbons

#17. It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again ...

Claude Monet

#18. I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.

Florence Welch

#19. I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words.

C.S. Lewis

#20. The United States media is advocating for the country to go to battle with Spain and take over Cuba and Puerto Rico to gain advantage over the Atlantic," said Manuel. "They have swayed public opinion. I would not be surprised that the countries go into war, and we are caught in the middle.

Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini

#21. You must approach each test with the seriousness and passion that you would use to prepare to challenge your death. You must prepare-not to die- but to battle for your life in each moment with every faculty and power available to you.

Mike Livingston

#22. I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.

Natalie Maines

#23. We were three ships in a summer's dawn, and we were going to battle.

Bernard Cornwell

#24. Evil needs to be understood for what it is: the dynamic of the absence of Light. It is not something that one should prepare to battle, to run from, or to outlaw.

Gary Zukav

#25. When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.

Maureen O'Hara

#26. There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.

Tori Amos

#27. I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.

Christine Feehan

#28. I would prefer to battle the 'I'm special' feeling not by the thought, 'I'm no more special than anyone else,' by by the feeling, 'Everyone is as special as me.'

C.S. Lewis

#29. A woman of battle cannot take the same risks as a woman of the fields or a woman of the town. One may not strap a baby basket to one's back along with one's swords and ride off to battle.
Renda of Brannagh,

Jordan MacLean

#30. Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord - "
"They won't," Tyrion said. "They are too different and yet too much alike, and neither could ever stomach the other.

George R R Martin

#31. I'm lining up my troops to go to battle with. Tarver is the man at light heavyweight. He has the credibility of the fans and media, and that's what counts. That's why I am taking this risk, but I am taking it by preparing myself with good people.

Bernard Hopkins

#32. Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

Edmund Pendleton

#33. We are a nation of glorious cowards, ready to battle any evil but our own." Her

Chris Cleave

#34. There's gonna be good times and bad times. When the good times come you got to ride it as long as you can. And when the bad times come you got to battle and try to get out of there as soon as you can.

Carlos Delgado

#35. Oh, I would not want a knight with no dents. It means he has never been to battle, never fought for his honor, the things he believes in, or for sheer survival. Without the dents, sir, I would not trust my knight to be fully human.

Kathleen Bittner Roth

#36. I've known white Australian girls from wealthy families who were sent to posh private schools, who knew all of that stuff, and I think would recognise much in Jefferson's book. What I related to most strongly was the sexism and misogyny Margo Jefferson had to battle.

Justine Larbalestier

#37. The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.

Andre Malraux

#38. Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

Ossie Davis

#39. Life has good and bad times. And to get through them you have to battle. Life is not all smooth. I've had my bumps and bruises, like anybody, but I've always tried to look at life like a glass that's half full.

Dick Vitale

#40. There are distractions, all around. There's so much media, for a young kid to battle against, to get to something soulful. You have to make a decision, on your own, what you can take from these people, if you can dig deeper. It's nice to be able to let people dig deeper.

Jack White

#41. But I recall the springtime of the world as though it were yesterday - those days when we rode together to battle, and those nights when we shook the stars loose from the fresh-painted skies!

Roger Zelazny

#42. The only thing that helps you win the game is preparation and getting your mind ready to go to battle. That's what you've got to do.

Mark Richt

#43. What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

Horace

#44. I sent out words like soldiers to battle and they never returned.

John Mortimer

#45. The world should not pass judgement upon the Negro, and especially the Negro youth, too quickly or too harshly. The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.

Booker T. Washington

#46. However, he didn't have a high opinion of the average man's ability as a fighter. The majority of men couldn't fight at all and even most outlaws were the merest amateurs when it came to battle. Few could shoot well, and even fewer had any mind for strategy.

Larry McMurtry

#47. You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, & training them up in God's fear, & minding the house, & making your household a church for God, as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts.

Charles Spurgeon

#48. I'm not here to battle anybody. In the end it's just an instrument. That shouldn't be a concept.

Eric San

#49. He especially enjoyed watching Mrs. Sen as she chopped things, seated on newspapers on the living room floor. Instead of a knife she used a blade that curved like the prow of a Viking ship, sailing to battle in distant seas. The blade was hinged at one end to a narrow wooden base.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#50. It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

Richard M. DeVos

#51. It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

Benito Mussolini

#52. Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never test them except when you see that they hope to win.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#53. We should never shy away from the challenges that face us out of fear of failure or an unwillingness to battle the odds. We should confront our problems head on and make no excuses.

Kyle Maynard

#54. Angel, shiny armor just means the knight never went to battle." He kissed my temple. "And I'd fight dragons for you.

Nichole Chase

#55. Whether it appears in a story about a man killing his girlfriend while calling her a whore or in trying to battle conservative claims that emergency contraception or the HPV vaccine will make girls promiscuous, the purity myth in America underlies more misogyny than most people would like to admit

Jessica Valenti

#56. Your curse is yourself. You're the biggest obstacle you will ever have to battle.

Ksenia Anske

#57. Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#58. You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.

Al Goldstein

#59. I think that genetically we're programmed to battle each other.

Pierce Brosnan

#60. A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

Lara St. John

#61. The boy who chose to play the villain in order to battle a monster who calls himself a hero

Lisa Maxwell

#62. Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.

Hugo Chavez

#63. Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn't address the underlying causes.

Mark Hyman

#64. Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.

Thomas Carlyle

#65. People think we have coasted the last four years. We fought, we had a lot of battles. We've always had to battle.

Kerri Walsh

#66. In environments where corporations become too interventionist and capture regulation themselves, the government must be able to battle back so that the people have a chance.

Ian Bremmer

#67. Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

Sun Tzu

#68. What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!

Horace

#69. My name is Spar. I am neither called Rocky nor made of rock. I am a Guardian, one of those warriors who were summoned to battle against the Seven demons of the Darkness and to prevent their possible return to this human plane of existence. I consider the others of my kind to be my brothers.

Christine Warren

#70. Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

Swami Muktananda

#71. I have always been their rock. A mother's unconditional love is fervent enough to battle against the gates of hell, rise up from her knees and stand gallant, in spite of her gaping war wounds. If only they knew the battle fought and the flood of tearshed without having to endure such agony.

Terry A. O'Neal

#72. To have reservations is to show true leadership. To have certainty without question, to lead people to battle with no qualms, or to prosecute without hesitation are qualities of a tyrant.

Laura Kreitzer

#73. It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.

Janet Morris

#74. It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.

Jodi Picoult

#75. Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?

Maureen Howard

#76. To love is to battle, to open doors. The world changes if two can look at each other and see.

Octavio Paz

#77. I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even, I suddenly remembered, contained no staples. Well, strike that line of defense.

Charlaine Harris

#78. If the parent represses the girl's anger not just once but over and over again, a deeper injury occurs: the girl will eventually dismantle her anger response. Ultimately, it's safer for her to cut off a part of her being than to battle the person on whom her life depends.

Patricia Love

#79. Some leaders are not intimidated by opposition; they actually thrive on it. It wakes them up. It energizes them. It calls them to battle. It causes them to mobilize their thoughts and energy.

John Ortberg

#80. No matter where you once were, no matter how dark your storm, God doesn't want you to remain there. Overcoming may not be easy, but it's possible when you ask your Father to battle for you.

Dana Arcuri

#81. People are always wanting to pull me up on my shortfalls. I try to battle against those and concentrate on how good things are.

Bobby Davro

#82. So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead.

Cyril Falls

#83. It's hard being a white rapper sometimes! When that happens you just need to battle through.

Yelawolf

#84. I had to battle it out with all the usual suspects and whatnot and go to the callback. I was lucky that (writer-director) John (Levine) and I were sort of these two white-boy hip-hop-heads from New York. I think that alone got me in the door.

Josh Peck

#85. Vegan Vengeance" - A Vegan teams up with "Carrot Chick", Broccoli Boy" and Paul Potato" to battle meat eaters everywhere. If "Oliver Onion" joins in they may stand a chance of making the enemy cry every time they eat meat!!

Neil Leckman

#86. 'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.

Oscar Isaac

#87. Not becoming the hate has been the biggest test of my life, one I've won, but one I still have to battle everyday.

Sarah Michelle Lynch

#88. They were soldiers of the sea, born and bred to battle her, taking her bounty along the way. Some succeeded and lived, others failed and died, but that was the life he'd been destined to have.

Amber Lynn Natusch

#89. The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

Joseph Campbell

#90. On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

Richard Le Gallienne

#91. All of it pointed to one simple fact: to be a princess was to battle witches.

M.A. Larson

#92. Every soldier had to battle his weaker self. His weaker self had brought Donnersmarck to his knees, trembling. He had screamed it away, he had outrun it, he had drowned it in the blood of others. And he had always defeated it.

Cornelia Funke

#93. I had the arrogant confidence of a man born to battle. I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred, son of another Uhtred, and we had not held Bebbanburg and its lands by whimpering at altars. We are warriors.

Bernard Cornwell

#94. If you really look at hip-hop dance, it's really a rites-of-passage thing. You never see the arms release down. They're always up in fighting position. It's going to war. What do we say? We say your're going to battle. You go out there and fight.

Rennie Harris

#95. Project to battle terrorists on their own

Brad Thor

#96. Anyone that goes to battle goes to battle knowing the mindset and tactics of their enemies.

Brad Thor

#97. I've been in fortunate position of never really having to battle with my record company to do the things I wanted to do in the studio.

Jonny Lang

#98. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

Jodi Picoult

#99. When we've been bold on the Bank of England, on PFI, on great constitutional change, on the New Deal, we've been most successful. So what we have to continue to try and do is to battle with ideas and find new ways of applying those values as the world changes.

John Reid

#100. When people try to take [smoking] away from me I say, 'hey, I stopped everything else.' But, I have to battle that one, too.

Matthew Perry