Battle Quotes

Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.

The race doesn't always belong to the swift nor the battle to the strong. It belongs rather to those who run the race, who stay the course and who fight the good fight.

No matter how hard the battle gets or no matter how many people DON'T believe in your dream,Never give up!

Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray.

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

Without cavalry, battles are without result.

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.

A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

I know no better way of waging the battle for Truth than arraying the facts face to face on either side and letting them fight it out.

And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.

If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.

For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized 'other.'

I'm a soldier who didn't know how nasty the battle was going to be, and now, I've got a purple heart and I'm back.

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

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.

We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value.

Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.

When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.

Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer.

War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.

The battle is tough but if you reach where you want to go, then at least in some sense it is worth it.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.

Winning is important, but survival is even more important. If you don't survive, you don't get to fight the next battle.

More die in flight than in battle.

You don't have to fight every battle. You don't have to respond to every critic. You don't have to be offended because of what others say. You can rise above these things and soar.

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.

God wants to give you victory, but He can only do it if you show up for the battle.

There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.

Proper school nutrition must be complemented by activities outside of the cafeteria. The decisions parents make to keep their kids healthy are critical in fighting this battle on the home front.

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.

The GREATEST battle you wage against FAILURE occurs on the INSIDE, not the OUTSIDE.

The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.

I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.

We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave.

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.

I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.

We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism...we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today...our battle is with Satan himself.

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will.