Battle Quotes:

Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

- A. J. Hartley

topic: Strong, Battle, World

The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide...

- A. J. P. Taylor

topic: War, Battle, Dice

We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.

- Abdoulaye Wade

topic: Winning, Humanity, Battle, We Will Win

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Battle, Care, Firmness, Inaugural Speech, Debt Of Gratitude

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

- Adam Brody

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Careers, Important, Battle, Battle Of Life

Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security.

- Adi Shamir

topic: War, Winning, Battle, Computer Security

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

- Adolf Galland

topic: Battle, Want, Tough

During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.

- Adolf Galland

source: Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

topic: Air, Battle, Bombers, Air Power, Battle Of Britain

The women has her own battlefield with every child she brings into the world she fights a battle for the nation

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Children, Fighting, Battle

Dunkirk has fallen... with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knew no bounds. You have not disappointed me.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Soldier, Battle, Ww2, Dunkirk

But if out of smugness, or even cowardice, this battle is not fought to its end, then take a look at the peoples five hundred years from now. I think you will find but few images of God, unless you want to profane the Almighty.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Thinking, Years, Battle, Almighty God, Belief In God

The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primarily a battle of information.

- Ahmed Chalabi

topic: Military, Fighting, Battle

Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.

- Ahmed Yassin

topic: Soldier, Battle, Israeli, Israeli Soldiers

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

- Aisha Tyler

topic: Sacrifice, Goal, Battle

Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?

- Ajahn Chah

topic: Giving, Meditation, Battle

The history of human consciousness is marked by the battle between the old awareness, the ways of fear, and the new awareness, the ways of love.

- Al Berto

topic: Battle, Way, Consciousness, Way Of Love

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

topic: New York, Fighting, Battle

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

- Alan Cumming

topic: Blood, Battle, Arms

Return to the battle again, no longer trusting in the false and insufficient human resources which so foolishly we had taken into the battle, but now trusting in the limitless resources of our risen Lord.

- Alan Redpath

topic: Taken, Battle, Return, Insufficient, Risen

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

- Albert Camus

topic: Peace, Humanity, Battle, Peace Tranquility, Peace And Tranquility

For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles; but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: People, Battle, Would Be, Brothels

You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam.

- Alexander Haig

topic: War, Battle, President, Jack Kennedy, President Kennedy

Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship, in front of me was a quite different person: an enraged lion, although with the fervour typical only of a southerner, with his temperamental patter, which made it hard to follow the torrent of his indignant exclamations and words.

- Alexander Koblencs

topic: Battle, Chess, Typical, Capablanca, Southerner

What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle

- Alexander Suvorov

topic: Training, Battle, Easy

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

- Alexander Suvorov

source: "Suvorov". Book by K. Ossipov, 1945.

topic: Practice, Battle, Study

A hard drill makes an easy battle.

- Alexander Suvorov

topic: Battle, Easy, Drills

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

- Alexandre Dumas

topic: Men, Perfect, Battle, Monte Cristo

It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.

- Alexandre Dumas

topic: Heart, Eye, Battle, Heart Beat

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

- Alfred Adler

topic: Boys, Soul, Battle

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Stupidity, Battle, Defense, Battle Cry

The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives.

- Ali Vincent

source: Ali Vincent (2009). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.1, Rodale

topic: Winning, Battle, Want

Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

topic: Fighting, Men, Battle

The prosecution responsible for the many discrepancies in their work must be made to answer for them, for Raffaele's sake, my sake and most especially for the sake of Meredith's family. Our hearts go out to them. No matter what happens, my family and I will face this continuing legal battle as we always have, confident in the truth and with our heads held high in the face of wrongful accusations and unreasonable adversity.

- Amanda Knox

source: Amanda Knox Retrial: "Italian Court Rules To Re-Hear Murder Case" by Chris Rogers, hollywoodlife.com. March 26, 2013.

topic: Heart, Adversity, Battle, Discrepancies

We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.

- Ami Ayalon

topic: War, Winning, Battle

Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.

- Amin Maalouf

topic: Sorrow, Tears, Battle

I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

- Anais Nin

topic: Snakes, Knowing, Battle

I'm not a fighter. If there's something going on that I really feel strongly about, I'll certainly stand up but I pick my battles.

- Analeigh Tipton

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Battle, Fighter, Feels

If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.

- Andrew Cuomo

topic: People, Battle, Citizens, Albany, Dodging Bullets

Like the panic stricken populace of 'The War of the Worlds' and countless other 1950s invasion movies, the victims are there to provide the human ground over which monster and expert, threat and defender, disordering and ordering impulses can battle it out. Second-class citizens of the genre, they are narratively indispensable because physically entirely disposable. We are only really involved with them in the momentary tension of their capture or demise.

- Andrew Tudor

topic: War, Class, Battle, Disposable, Second Class Citizens

Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.

- Andy Andrews

source: Twitter post from Mar 24, 2016

topic: Challenges, Battle, Your Future

Finding the tool is often half the battle.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Battle, Tools, Half

Fight your battles with words, not fists

- Ann M. Martin

source: Ann Martin, Ann M. Martin (2012). “Belle Teal”, p.111, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Fighting, Battle, Fists

All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.

- Ann Macbeth

topic: Art, Years, Battle, Australian Films

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.

- Anne Edwards

source: Anne Edwards (1988). “A Remarkable Woman: A Biography of Katharine Hepburn”, Pocket

topic: Sex, Essence, Battle

The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely, there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.

- Anthony Browne

source: "A life in books: Anthony Browne". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2009.

topic: Drawing, Battle, Odd Things

Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols... for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols.

- Antonin Artaud

topic: Eye, Theatre, Battle

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

- Antonio Villaraigosa

topic: Battle, Partners, Council

The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle.

- Antony Beevor

topic: Decision, Battle, Way

The instruments of battle are valuable only if one knows how to use them.

- Ardant du Picq

source: Sun Tzu, Einhard, Julius Caesar, Ardant du Picq, Niccol˜ Machiavelli (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.402, Lulu.com

topic: Battle, Use, Instruments

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

- Ariel Rechtshaid

source: Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. November 22, 2013.

topic: Artist, Battle, Half

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

- Ariel Sharon

source: "Sharon: I'll solve the Palestinian problem in four years". Interview with Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2003.

topic: War, Israel, Battle, Injured, Horror Of War

A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.

- Aristide Briand

topic: Country, Justice, Battle

Almost 70 per cent of your fitness battle is won the day you realise what your body needs and when. I've made my own diets, and I decide for myself what works for me.

- Arjun Rampal

topic: Battle, Needs, Body

I'm battling cancer. It's another battle I intend to win.

- Arlen Specter

source: "Ex-Sen. Specter plans to win fight against cancer", www.cnn.com. August 28, 2012.

topic: Cancer, Winning, Battle

Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Golf, Battle, Balls, Step Up

The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.

- Arthur C. Brooks

source: Arthur C. Brooks (2010). “The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future”, p.186, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: America, Soul, Battle

Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

- Arthur Lynch

source: Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

topic: Life, Powerful, Battle, Battle Of Life

Every battle, every war - is fought for things worth dying for.

- Arthur M. Jolly

source: Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

topic: War, Dying, Battle, Things Worth Dying For

Battles are won and lost before they are fought.

- Ashwin Sanghi

topic: Inspirational, Battle, Lost

Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.

- Audre Lorde

source: Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.119, Courier Dover Publications

topic: Blessed, Battle, Able

I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to choose between the fronts upon which I must battle these forces of discrimination, wherever they appear to destroy me. And when they appear to destroy me, it will not be long before they appear to destroy you.

- Audre Lorde

topic: Believe, Long, Battle

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.

- August Strindberg

topic: People, Joy, Battle, Joy Of Life, Battle Of Life

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

- August Strindberg

topic: Happiness, Joy, Battle, Battle Of Life

Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; not of evading, but of boldly proclaiming a full, consistent, and radical alternative.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Mean, Ideas, Battle, Proclaiming

In battle, one must adhere to one's beliefs.

- Azai Nagamasa

source: "Fictional character: Nagamasa Azai". "Samurai Warriors" video game, 2004.

topic: Battle, Belief

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.

- B. F. Skinner

topic: Boredom, Despair, Battle

[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.

- B. H. Liddell Hart

topic: Military, Decision, Battle, Dislocation

The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.

- B. W. Powe

source: "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.

topic: War, Battle, Trojans, Trojan War

I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.

- Barbara Kruger

topic: Thinking, People, Battle, Framing

This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.

- Barbara Walters

topic: Badass, Fighting, Battle

Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.

- Barry Sanders

topic: Christian, Player, Battle, Good Christian

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

- Ben Harper

topic: Battle, Stories, Moral

Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can't explain But I faithfully remain.

- Ben Harper

topic: Battle, Waste, Lost

These eyes weren't made for crying, this love wasn't made to waste. These arms weren't made for battle, but to share in your embrace.

- Ben Harper

topic: Relationship, Eye, Battle, These Eyes

A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Book, Battle, May

We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle.

- Benjamin E. Mays

topic: Battle, Liberty, Torches, Predecessors

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

- Bennie Thompson

topic: Men, Battle, Serious

A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy...

- Bernard Cornwell

topic: Men, Enemy, Battle

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

- Bernard Law Montgomery

topic: Fighting, Soldier, Battle

No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Religion, Battle, Faces

Battles over water in the West are always about something more. At their most elemental, they are about survival.

- Bettina Boxall

topic: Water, Survival, Battle

I remember when I fell from my first bike: There were no 'Are you okays?' and rarely 'Are you alrights?' Just dirt in my pockets, handful of gravel... That's when I realized that getting up is only half the battle.

- Big K.R.I.T.

source: Song: Rich Dad, Poor Dad, 2012

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Battle, Gravel

If you battle L, you picked the wrong head I smash mics like cornbread You can't kill me, I was born dead

- Big L

source: Song: Put it On, Album: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous, 1995

topic: Battle, Born, Mics, Cornbread

Battles I lose none I make crews run I get fools done, got ten fingers but only use one

- Big L

source: Song: M.V.P, Album: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous, 1995

topic: Running, Battle, Use

Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.

- Bill Jenkins

topic: Battle, Finals, Alzheimer

Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and Anti-Christ.

- Billy Graham

topic: Battle, Christianity, Communism, Anti Christ

There has always been a battle between good and evil.

- Billy Ray Cyrus

source: "Who Is the Most Shameful Stage Parent?", www.foxnews.com. February 16, 2011.

topic: Evil, Battle, Good And Evil, Battle Between Good And Evil

The battle outside raging will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.

- Bob Dylan

topic: Wall, Future, Battle, Premonition, Your Wall

The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.

- Bob Goff

topic: Heart, Battle, Calendars

In this life, y'ever notice that you face the same challenges again and again? We all do. They're challenges to your soul. We repeat them until we face them and master them. Yes we all have free will, but there're divine patterns out there, and the battle is to see them.

- Brad Meltzer

topic: Challenges, Soul, Battle

In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources.

- Brian Herbert

source: Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson (2010). “Dune: The Butlerian Jihad”, p.353, Macmillan

topic: Hero, Battle, Heat

The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday.

- Brigham Young

topic: Men, Everyday, Battle, Celestial

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

- Brit Hume

topic: Battle, World, Serious

Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

- Cal Thomas

topic: Lonely, Honor, Battle

Only great and general battles can produce great results

- Carl von Clausewitz

topic: Military, Battle, Results, Great Results

Battles decide everything.

- Carl von Clausewitz

topic: Battle

Every marriage is a battle between two families struggling to reproduce themselves.

- Carl Whitaker

topic: Struggle, Two, Battle

I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds.

- Carrie Underwood

topic: Fighting, Chocolate, Battle, Love Chocolates

The greatest battles are fought in the mind.

- Casey Treat

topic: Mind, Battle

Men are natural warriors, but a woman in battle is truly bloodthirsty

- Cate Tiernan

source: Cate Tiernan (2007). “Book of Shadows: Book One”, p.98, Penguin

topic: Warrior, Men, Battle

Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.

- Cathy Guisewite

topic: Reality, Battle, Wages

With mammals the male appears to win the female much more through the law of battle than through the display of his charms.

- Charles Darwin

topic: Winning, Law, Battle

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

- Charles Hamilton Houston

topic: Fighting, Race, Battle, Good Christian

Walk by faith! Stop the plague of worry. Relax! Learn to say, "Lord, this is Your battle."

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Christian, Worry, Battle, Walk By Faith

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.

- Charles Sheeler

source: Charles Brock, Charles Sheeler, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Art Institute of Chicago, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (2006). “Charles Sheeler: across media”, University of California Press

topic: Journey, Battle, Trying

Fight all your battles on your knees and you win every time.

- Charles Stanley

source: Charles Stanley (2008). “Charles Stanley's Handbook for Christian Living: Biblical Answers to Life's Tough Questions”, p.544, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Fighting, Winning, Battle, Fighting Battles

Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.

- Charlie Sheen

topic: Battle, Acting, Bombs

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

- Charlotte Bronte

topic: Fighting, Feminism, Battle

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.

- Chinua Achebe

source: "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

topic: Men, Land, Battle

Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle

- Chip Heath

source: Chip Heath, Dan Heath (2008). “Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck”, p.26, Random House

topic: Army, Creating, Battle

I have a tendency toward the pleasures of the flesh. It's a battle for me, as far as weight and things like that. But I'm curbing them because I want to continue to do comedy, and the two don't mix. So I try to fight those demons.

- Chris Farley

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fighting, Two, Battle

In the battle between planning and action, action wins.

- Chris Guillebeau

source: "The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future". Book by Chris Guillebeau, 2012.

topic: Winning, Battle, Action

I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.

- Chris Hemsworth

topic: People, Battle, Eras, Fearlessness, Vikings

Everything I say about [writing] battles applies equally well in the boudoir.

- Chris Humphreys

topic: Writing, Battle, Boudoir

Pick your battles, and accept yourself for who you are.

- Chrissie Wellington

topic: Battle, Accepting Yourself, Accepting

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

- Christian Lous Lange

topic: Battle, Engagement, Sovereign, Internationalism, Protectionism

The selection of a subject is to the author what choice of position is to the general,--once skilfully determined, the battle is already half won. Of a few writers it may be said that they are popular in despite of their subjects--but of a great many more it may be observed that they are popular because of them.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Choices, Battle, Half

America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials.

- Christopher Bond

topic: Jobs, America, Battle, Plentiful, American Workers

Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment.

- Christopher Bond

topic: Thinking, Iraq, Battle, National Guard

I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the shades of gray in between them.

- Christopher Golden

source: Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder (2001). “Sons of Entropy”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

topic: Evil, Battle, Shade, Battle Between Good And Evil, Shades Of Gray

A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'...

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Battle, Littles, Friendship Love, Literature And Music

He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!

- Christopher Paolini

topic: Battle, Reeds, Triumphant

On every team, there is a core group that sets the tone for everyone else. If the tone is positive, you have half the battle won. If it is negative, you are beaten before you ever walk on the field.

- Chuck Noll

topic: Leadership, Team, Battle

There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means.

- Chuck Smith

topic: Prayer, Mean, Battle

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.

- Clara Zetkin

topic: Women, Battle, Demand, Suffrage, Universal Suffrage

I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do that - but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.

- Clarence Darrow

source: Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.497, University of Chicago Press

topic: Odds, Law, Battle

The casting is the most important thing. If you cast a picture really well a lot of things take care of themselves. You get actors that like to give a lot to the role and who appreciate the role on the same level that you do. If you miscast it, you're working an uphill battle a little bit and maybe you can come out okay but you can't always come out great.

- Clint Eastwood

topic: Giving, Appreciate, Battle, Uphill Battles

It was no picnic despite what anyone might say later . . . . Most of us were pretty scared all the bloody time; you only felt happy when the battle was over and you were on your way home, then you were safe for a bit, anyway.

- Colin S. Gray

topic: Home, Battle, Safe, Way Home

Choose your battles, but don't choose very many.

- Colleen Hoover

topic: Battle

In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the big election. That does not change things. What changes things is every day, getting up and rendering small acts of service and love beyond that what's expected of you or required of you.

- Cory Booker

topic: Love Is, Battle, Speech, Acts Of Service, Small Acts

Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting up with a mission to show this world that you are going to light it up with your spirit, to make the best out of yourself.

- Cory Booker

topic: Fighting, Light, Battle

We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

- Cory Doctorow

topic: Fighting, Winning, Battle

The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.

- Cory Doctorow

source: Cory Doctorow (2015). “For The Win”, p.331, Booklassic

topic: Battle, Firsts, Casualties

I cut my teeth as the black raccoon-- For implements of battle.

- Countee Cullen

source: Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.51, Library of America

topic: Cutting, Black, Battle, Raccoons

I don't think I'm too thin at all. I understand when people say, 'Well your face gets gaunt,' but to get your bottom half to be the right size, your face might have to be a little gaunt. You choose your battles.

- Courteney Cox

topic: Thinking, People, Battle

Most of life's battles are won or lost in the mind.

- Craig Groeschel

source: Craig Groeschel (2012). “Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World”, p.34, Zondervan

topic: Mind, Battle, Lost

Henry figured that the reason the Cheyenne had always ridden Appaloosas into battle was because by the time the men got there, they were so angry with the horses they were ready to kill everything.

- Craig Johnson

source: Craig Johnson (2013). “The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set”, p.118, Penguin

topic: Horse, Men, Battle, Cheyenne

Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.

- Criss Jami

topic: Believe, Expression, Battle

The competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not necessarily in business and everywhere else.

- Curtis Jackson

topic: Artist, Hip Hop, Battle

He always ran away from the battle with himself. Even in his own heart's privacy, he excused himself, saying, "If she hadn't said so-and-so, it would never have happened.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Heart, Battle, Privacy

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.

- D. Wayne Calloway

topic: Leader, Coaching, Battle, Leadership Development

To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Compassion, Victory, Battle

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

- Dale Earnhardt

topic: Car, Battle, Trying, Never Ending, Better Yourself

As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbour multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behaviour.

- Damian Thompson

topic: Brain, Battle, Different

Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold love, forgiveness, confrontation, and repentance.

- Dan B. Allender

topic: War, Battle, Allies, Old Love, Forgiveness Love

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.

- Dan Brown

topic: Angel, Enemy, Battle, Archetype, Angels And Demons

Determination can be a battle or a thrill. Choose to be thrilled.

- Danielle LaPorte

topic: Determination, Battle, Thrill

Finally, if life happened by chance on this earth and evolved upward, then it could seemingly happen elsewhere in the universe. But if, as we believe, human life resulted from a purposeful act of God, and if sin is inevitable for such beings, and if the human soul is the prize for which Satan and God do battle, then it hardly makes sense to have this same process repeated on countless other planets throughout the cosmos.

- Dave Hunt

topic: Believe, Soul, Battle

Opponents say natural selection is not a theory supported by observation or experiment; that it is not based on fact; and that it cannot be proved. Well, no, you cannot prove the theory to people who won't believe in it any more than you can prove that the Battle of Hastings took place in 1066. However, we know the battle happened then, just as we know the course of evolution on earth unambiguously shows that Darwin was right.

- David Attenborough

topic: Believe, People, Battle

You can't take it with you! Whatever you have there you will have already sent ahead in the way of souls won, victories won, battles won and rewards won for your service here!

- David Berg

topic: Soul, Victory, Battle

I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury.

- David Brainerd

topic: Enemy, Battle, Watches

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

- David Bronstein

topic: Games, Battle, Nerves

Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.

- David Bronstein

topic: Mind, Battle, Chess, Outlines

I wish the battles of men could be solved in their heads.

- David Clement-Davies

topic: Men, Wish, Battle

It would be a fine thing if war could be conducted as a game where no lives were lost. At the end of a battle combatants could meet [...] and drink and talk.

- David Gemmell

topic: War, Games, Battle

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

- David Henry Hwang

topic: Character, Writing, Battle

Politics is about winning. If you don?t win, you don?t get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

- David Horowitz

topic: Winning, Practice, Battle

The more the Gospel progresses and the closer we come to the end of the age, the more aggressive the enemy becomes. Sadly, many Christians are unaware that a battle is raging all around them, and they have not reported for duty.

- David Jeremiah

topic: Christian, Enemy, Battle

The manner in which one loses the battle can sometimes outshine the victory.

- David Millar

source: David Millar (2012). “Racing Through the Dark: Crash. Burn. Coming Clean. Coming Back.”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

topic: Victory, Battle, Sometimes

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

- David Quammen

topic: Thoughtful, Long, Battle

The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory....

- David Sarnoff

topic: Believe, Victory, Battle

I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.

- Deanna Raybourn

source: Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Silent in the Grave”, p.159, MIRA

topic: People, Battle, Stories

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

- Democritus

topic: Children, Worry, Battle, Uncertain Future

The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vague blur in the observer's mind; strong enough to send him into battle perhaps, but not to have him understand why he is going.

- Denis Donoghue

topic: Strong, Mind, Battle

Everyone needs to be proactive and know the various warning signs of cancer. Early detection and research to make detection easier at earlier stages, along with the treatments needs, is still a must. I salute all those winning the battle.

- Dennis Franz

topic: Cancer, Winning, Battle, Warning Signs, Detection

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.

- Derek Landy

topic: Fighting, Doubt, Battle, Bison, Battle Of Wits

Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix.

- Dick Taylor

topic: Errors, Battle, Events

I have won many trophies in my time, but nothing will ever top helping win the battle for peace in my country.

- Didier Drogba

topic: Country, Winning, Battle

Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Battle, Weapons, Way

Certainly the soda companies, the junk food companies fought hard against this and today's agreement doesn't mean the battle is over, we still have to pass this bill.

- Don Williams

topic: Mean, Agreement, Battle

A terrorist can attack at any time at any place using a range of techniques. It is physically impossible to defend at every time in every location against every conceivable technique of terrorism. Therefore, if your goal is to stop it, you cannot stop it by defense. You can only stop it by taking the battle to the terrorists, where they are and going after them.

- Donald Rumsfeld

topic: Goal, Battle, Technique

I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.

- Dorothy Stang

topic: Land, Battle, Want

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

- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

topic: Battle, Moral, Infantry

Cricket is battle and service and sport and art.

- Douglas Jardine

topic: Sports, Art, Battle

When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... ...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Fighting, Battle, Noodles, Muddle, Beetles

The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance. ..

- Duke of Wellington

topic: Order, Differences, Battle, Great Results

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

- Duke of Wellington

topic: War, Battle, Next

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

- Duke of Wellington

topic: Battle, Next, Misery

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

- Duke of Wellington

topic: Peace, War, Battle

The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.

- Duke of Wellington

topic: Battle, Fields, Eton, Waterloo

The beauty of science fiction is its open canvas. You can hypothesize about any element of the world. It doesn't have to be laser battles and things exploding, you can be JG Ballad and maybe just change one little thing about the real world and that becomes science fiction.

- Duncan Jones

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Real, Battle, Fiction, Real World

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Attitude, Winning, Battle

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

- E. F. Schumacher

topic: Men, Battle, Sides, Man And Nature, Beautiful Nature

The new culture war is about national identity rather than religion and 'transcendent authority.' It focuses on which groups the United States will formally admit to residence and citizenship. It asks the same question as the old culture war: 'Who are we?' But the earlier query was primarily about how we define ourselves morally. The new question is about how we define ourselves ethnically, racially and linguistically. It is, in truth, one of the oldest questions in our history, going back to our earliest immigration battles of the 1840s and 1850s.

- E. J. Dionne

topic: War, Battle, Identity, National Identity, Old Culture

I don't believe in God. I believe gods and devils are within us. It's our own battle. Our life's battle is to appeal to the gods within us, and to fight the devils within us.

- Eddie Izzard

topic: Believe, Fighting, Battle

It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.

- Edgar Degas

topic: Battle, Details, Lines

Art is really a battle.

- Edgar Degas

topic: Art, Battle, Art Is

Lawsuits are not pink teas. They are battles.

- Edgar Smith

topic: Determination, Tea, Battle, Lawsuit

Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

- Edmond Francois Valentin About

topic: Marriage, Life Is Like, Battle, Dueling

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

- Edmund Pendleton

source: Edmund Pendleton (1967). “The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton, 1734-1803”

topic: Battle, Principles, Remedy, Avarice Greed

There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

- Edvard Munch

topic: Men, People, Battle, Cool Love

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.

- Edward Everett

source: Svend Petersen, Edward Everett (1963). “The Gettysburg addresses: the story of two orations”

topic: Law, Battle, Citizens

Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

- Edward R. Murrow

topic: Battle, Language, English Language

U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor.

- Edward Teller

topic: Future, Important, Battle

A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases.

- Edwin Lefevre

source: Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.26, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Battle, Tape, Goes On

The appetites of the body were private battles.

- Elizabeth Strout

topic: Battle, Body, Appetite

We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola,

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

topic: Ebola, Battle, Stakes

The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.

- Emmeline Pankhurst

source: Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.1, 谷月社

topic: Men, Blood, Battle, Militancy

I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together.

- Emory Upton

topic: Lying, War, Battle

No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

- Enoch Powell

topic: Fighting, Battle, Lasts