Wars Are Won Quotes

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

George S. Patton

#2. Wars are won in the will.

Robert Fanney

#3. Battles are won by men. Wars are won by strategists.

Michael Scott

#4. Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#5. If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#6. You know so little of war. Battles may be fought from the outside in, but wars are won from the inside out.

V.E Schwab

#7. Wars are won with quills and ravens, wasn't that what you said?

George R R Martin

#8. Wars are won from a wink, a gesture, an event that transpired a millennium before the battle. Humanity has always been saved by small acts; the ones where someone gained a piece of their own puzzle, not the ones where a hero stood prodigious on a battlefield.

Sarah Noffke

#9. Remember wars are won by killing people. The more we kill, the quicker we'll get out of this war.

George S. Patton

#10. It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle.

Georgy Zhukov

#11. Today, shooting wars are won or lost before they start. If they are fought at all, they would be fought principally to confirm which side had won at the outset.

Curtis LeMay

#12. Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.

Brian Selznick

#13. All wars are won or lost before they are ever fought.

Sun Tzu

#14. Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.

Stephen Covey

#15. Most wars start because someone makes a mistake, and most battles are lost by the losing side rather than won by the victors. I'm not sure if that makes things better or worse. I suppose it depends on which you disapprove of more, malice or stupidity.

K.J. Parker

#16. In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.

Marcus Buckingham

#17. Wars are not won by evacuations.

Winston Churchill

#18. Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.

Uesugi Kenshin

#19. I will never ask you to fight for me. I have neither the insecurity nor the arrogance to believe that wars must be won and lost to earn or keep my love.

Beau Taplin

#20. Wars cannot be won by destroying women and children

William D. Leahy

#21. I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without.

Ernie Pyle

#22. Wars are lost by thinking the impossible won't happen.

Patrick Carman

#23. We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations

Winston Churchill

#24. True wars are never won

E. E. Cummings

#25. By such little victories are wars and hearts won,

Mercedes Lackey

#26. Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

George S. Patton Jr.

#27. Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

F. E. Adcock

#28. Power...Born out of nature, Coveted by men; Wars rage on, And victors are crowned. But true power can never be lost or won. True power comes from within.

Emily Thorne