Great Battle Quotes:

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. by Saint Philo of Alexandria

- Philo

source: "The Candymakers (The Candymakers, Book 1)". Book by Wendy Mass, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2010.

topic: Truth, Fighting, Battle, Alexandria, Great Battle

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

- Sun Tzu

source: Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: War, Enemy, Suffering, Military Strategy, Strategic

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.

- Sun Tzu

topic: Inspirational, Art, Fear, Knowing Others, Military History

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

source: Speech in Ottawa on January 10, 1946. "Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches". Book edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels, 1948.

topic: Peace, Hate, Military, Soldiers At War, World War 2

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

- Wendy Mass

topic: Inspirational, Life, Kindness, Inspirational Bullying, Kind Person

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

- Richard Grenier

topic: Strength, Wisdom, Veterans Day, Inspirational Good Night, Military Force

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

- Herbert Hoover

topic: Death, Peace, War, Soldiers At War, Just War

If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.

- Sun Tzu

topic: War, Enemy, Suffering, Military Strategy, Strategic

We have met the enemy and they are ours.

- Oliver Hazard Perry

source: Message toWilliam Henry Harrison, 10 Sept. 1813. The source is Perry's dispatch from the U.S. brig Niagara to General Harrison, announcing that victory at the Battle of Lake Erie was secure. The dispatch was written in pencil on the back of an old letter; it is quoted in Robert B. McAfee, History of the LateWar in theWestern Country (1816). SeeWalt Kelly 2; Walt Kelly 3

topic: Military, Enemy, Mets, Military History, Military Soldier

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

- John Adams

topic: Peace, War, History, Politics And War, American War

This the American Black man knows: his fight is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or he wins. He will enter modern civilization in America as a Black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west.

- W. E. B. Du Bois

topic: Fighting, Winning, Men, Roots And Branches, Great Battle

Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.

- Theodore Parker

source: Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.86

topic: Life, Success, School, Great Army, Great Battle

The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

source: "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. VII), 1916.

topic: Time, Knowing, Secret, Great Battle

The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony.

- Samuel Logan Brengle

topic: Lonely, Night, Destiny, Great Battle, Worst Moments

I was worried that all the corners of the earth had been explored, all the great battles fought. The famous people on TV were athletes and actresses and singers. What did they stand for? I wondered: Had the time for heroes passed?

- Eric Greitens

source: Eric Greitens (2012). “The Warrior's Heart: Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Hero, Athlete, People, Great Battle

There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.

- Gloria Vanderbilt

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Fighting, Battle, Be Kind, Fireplaces, Great Battle

Rocky is a warrior, we've had a lot of great battles starting from when I was 16. He's a true team player, great fighter, and I have a ton of respect for him.

- Mike Brown

topic: Team, Warrior, Player, Great Battle

Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

- John Lubbock

topic: Passion, Everyday, Battle, Small Details, Great Battle

Christ's whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness — the setting forth in living act and word what man is meant to be, and how he should carry himself in this world of God — one long campaign in which the temptation stands out as the first great battle and victory.

- Thomas Hughes

source: Thomas Hughes (2017). “True Manliness”, p.29, Litres

topic: Men, Long, Temptation, True Man, Manliness

For once in my career, I won't have to hold anybody's hand and they won't have to hold mine. I'm surrounded by veterans. We had a great battle last Thursday at HealthPoint. It was something I never had before - three, four, really great players all in one pickup game.

- Shaquille O'Neal

topic: Basketball, Player, Games, Great Battle

Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.

- Mikhail Bakunin

topic: Two, Battle, Politics, Great Battle

You are a fool to speak of last great battles...for the last great battle is always the next one.

- Roger Zelazny

source: "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.

topic: Battle, Lasts, Next, Great Battle

Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.

- Plutarch

source: Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.71

topic: Rain, Fall, Battle, Great Battle

A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.

- Peter Medawar

topic: Men, Discovery, Battle, Great Battle, Chronology

In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.69, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Character, Names, Perfection, Battle Of Life, Assemblage

Great battles are won with artillery.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: War, Battle, Artillery, Great Battle

What I like about the third movie is you get to see a side of Carlisle you haven't seen before. You actually get to see what his vampire capabilities are because there's some great battle sequences. It's my favorite book. Carlisle is holding on to that humanity. He doesn't want to be a vampire.

- Peter Facinelli

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

topic: Book, Humanity, Battle, Great Battle

We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.

- Tony Curtis

topic: Girl, Daughter, Mother, Losing Her, Great Battle

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

- William Ralph Inge

topic: Judging, Soldier, Battle, Disheartened, Great Battle

As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given us to guide our own steps; as the foot-soldier who hears nothing of the councils that determine the course of the great battle he is in, hears plainly enough the word of command that they must themselves obey.

- George Eliot

source: "Scenes of Clerical Life".

topic: Feet, Light, Soldier, Great Battle

No one can be transferred from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God without a great battle and by the good fight of faith. No one receives full light in a single day. Great faithfulness is required for us to receive more light.

- Johan Oscar Smith

topic: Life Changing, Fighting, Light, Great Battle

Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Christian, Prayer, People, Great Battle

Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages or to the study of history which, for the most part, is a detailed account of things that never occurred. It is useless to fill the individual with dates of great battles, with the births and deaths of kings. They should be taught the philosophy of history, the growth of nations, of philosophies, theories, and, above all, of the sciences.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

topic: Kings, Philosophy, Years, Great Battle

There will be great battles fought for the future of the world! The coming years will be very tough.

- Andre Vltchek

topic: Years, Battle, World, Great Battle