Battle Quotes

Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.

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

The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.

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

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

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

The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.

Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you need to - restraint is something I admire. At the end of the day, it is still a battle between good vs. crap.

The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory.

Be kind to one another, because most of us are fighting a hard battle.

To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.

It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

I'll bet most of the companies that are in life-or-death battles got into that kind of trouble because they didn't pay enough attention to developing their leaders.

A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

No battle can be won in the study, and theory without practice is dead.

I realized that my battle to survive this war would have to be fought inside of me.

In a real battle, atemi is seventy percent, technique is thirty percent.

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.

The inward battle--against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past--is more terrible than outward battle.

The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.

Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own.

The man is the first weapon of battle. Let us study the soldier, for it is he who brings reality to it.

God gives His toughest battles to His strongest soldiers.

More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.

You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

I am leaving the office but am not leaving the battle for peace.

You cannot know if you will be successful or not. You can only prepare for battle and it must be done with all of your heart and with all of your consciousness. In that manner, you will have an edge.

The Lord is the General, and he has the right . . . the sovereign right . . . to put us where he wants in the battle.

Of course you battle despair. It is often a day-to-day fight, but it's one that can be won.

Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.

I would love to have a battle of wits with you, Bison, but I doubt it would be a fair fight.' 'Shut your face.' 'Exactly my point.

If it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided and shunned by better and more valid reasons.

The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth

There has always been a battle between good and evil.