Battle Quotes - Page 12

In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive.

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

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

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

God gives His toughest battles to His strongest soldiers.

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

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

Life has good and bad times. And to get through them you have to battle. Life is not all smooth. I've had my bumps and bruises, like anybody, but I've always tried to look at life like a glass that's half full.

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

There has always been a battle between good and evil.

My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed.

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

Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles.

Fiction. . . . It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins.

Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!

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

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

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.

The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms?

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

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.

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.

Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places - on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, poetry, etc.

I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.