Battle Quotes · Page 63

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

— Robert Ludlum

Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in…

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

In order to battle gravity and keep a house standing, there must be solid support from the top of the roof, all…

— Bryan Baeumler

Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle.

— George S. Patton

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

— Robert Trout

Our police officers are on the front line of a battle to maintain control of our streets.

— Priti Patel

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend…

— Thomas Hobbes

We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.

— William Wallace

I find my husband's family history fascinating, as they can trace the family lineage back to ancestors who fought, and died, in…

— Kim Edwards

I intend to set up a thousand-year Reich and anyone who supports me in this battle is a fellow-fighter for a unique…

— Adolf Hitler

When you have traveled the world, won Olympic gold, and gone through a very public court battle against your parents all by…

— Dominique Moceanu

To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad…

— Sun Tzu

A battle cry" Mr. Bennet said "is a warrior's calling card. Only it does not say 'Good afternoon. I have come for…

— Steve Hockensmith

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel. Man's fall, his need of a new birth, forgiveness…

— Charles Spurgeon

“The noble heart will find no shortage of places to offer itself in martyrdom, but you cannot die on every battlefield.” ~…

— R.L. Syme

We must take the initiative; we must be permanently on the offensive. It is the battle of class struggle. We must keep…

— Samora Machel

Look, if you have a problem with distilling the Battle of Thermopylae down to freedom versus tyranny, you need to read Herodotus…

— Zack Snyder

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken…

— Samuel Johnson

All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then…

— Sebastian Faulks

If you're losing the battle against a persistent bad habit, an addiction, or a temptation, and you're stuck in a repeating cycle…

— Rick Warren

“Sixty-two years passed since that battle, I can remember it as if it was yesterday. It made me the king I am…

— Muhammad Nusair

Many of the situations that we've talked about whether it's the San Carlos, whether it's the Navajo fighting for their land rights…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

The world petroleum story is one of the most inhuman known to man: in it, elementary moral and social principles are jeered…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers…

— Manfred Rommel

I remember the first time my mother voted, and it was a hard-won battle to get the right to vote.

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight…

— Charles Hamilton Houston

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

— Robert M. Gates

It's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand.

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Edmund Pendleton

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

— Cathy Guisewite

I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Democritus

As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents.

— Paul Johnson

Most of life's battles are fought inside ourselves, & our greatest periods of growth usually come during crises.

— Robert Scheid

Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in…

— Myrtle Reed

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could,…

— Terry Pratchett

If you get a veteran guy that's getting marginal pitches, you know you're in for a tough night and a battle.

— Alex Bregman

Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will.

— Max Lucado

I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing…

— Ben Harper

I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of…

— Anonymous