Best 1688 quotes in «battle quotes» category

The hardships of forced marches are often more painful than the dangers of battle

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

The heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

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.

The history of PR is... a history of a battle for what is reality and how people will see and understand reality.

The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory.

The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.

The illusions it had woven for me had taken place only in my head. The battle had been invisible to the naked eye, but the hard ones are.

The innocent should never have to suffer from the battles of others. (Valerius) I know, but it seems to always be the case. (Acheron) A furore infra, libera nos - spare us from the fury within. (Valerius)

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

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

Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites.

Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire.

The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.

The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.

The last great struggle for our rights; the battle for our own civilization, is entirely with ourselves, and the problem is to be solved by us.

The legends say, that Ares takes the form of his warriors and he visits their wives while they're away at battle.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

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

The look Anthony shot at his sister was so comically malevolent Simon nearly laughed. He managed to restrain himself, but mostly just because he was fairly certain that any show of humor would cause Anthony's fist to lose its battle with his brain, with Simon's face emerging as the conflict's primary casualty.

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

The machine does not teach playing flexibility, does not help in taking account of human facxtors in the battle, and on whole, strictly speaking, it restricts the possibilities for young players.

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives.

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

The mental game of 'holding out,' not eating for as long as possible, at least for me, was a really unhealthy mental place. I would inevitably lose that battle and eat too much in one sitting and end up really mad at myself.

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.

The most important battle is one to conquer yourself.

The most imminent battle our generation is going to have to fight is food transparency: how food is made/grown, where it comes from, the quality of the source, and how it will effect our health long term.

The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

The next battle being fought by e-commerce companies will be for customer loyalty.

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.

The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.

The older I get, the more frantic my work becomes because I want to get it all done. It's a losing battle, but I try.

The one thing all that battle taught me, is that no one walks away without scars. No one. (Bad Moon Rising)

The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side.

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.

The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area of struggle, this is the arena, this is where the fight is taking place, the battle. Everybody believes that, but you have to really believe that and work that way.

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

The outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill; an utter yearning to produce in all ways, to battle as much as possible against time that drags us along, and the distractions that throw a veil over our soul.

The personal deportment of Captain Perry, throughout the day, was worthy of all praise. He did not quit his own vessel when she became useless, to retire from the battle, but to gain it; an end that was fully obtained, and an effort which resulted in triumph.

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.

The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures.

The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.

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.