Battle Quotes - Page 20

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.

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'.

There's gonna be good times and bad times. When the good times come you got to ride it as long as you can. And when the bad times come you got to battle and try to get out of there as soon as you can.

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.

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

War is no longer a series of battles, but a test of the strength of the entire nation, its moral strength as well as physical, brain as well as muscles, and stamina as well as courage.

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.

I don’t want friends to die...or fade away. I don’t want battles where we have to lose in order to win.

The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, God save the Queen; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister.

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.

When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil.

Much of our trading comes down to a battle between our patience and our impulses.

Rather than finding the devil "out there," we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.

One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom.

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.

I'm weary of the battle. But a tired fighter can still be a fighter.

Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory! Now 's the day and now 's the hour; See the front o' battle lour.

I survive all those battles," she growled, "and I get defeated by a stupid chunk of rock!

The battle cry sort of gave you away. Try not to yell next time.

In the battle between the heart and the mind, winners always listen to their hearts

We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.

Of course we fight. What sisters don't battle?

I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.