Combat Quotes · Page 15

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

MMA is a full combat sport comprising 36 different styles of fighting including karate, judo and kung-fu.

— Raj Kundra

“The slaves toiling in the temple of this god began to feel rebellion at his harsh tasks.”

— Stephen Crane

I loved 'Gladiator,' and I thought its depiction of gladiatorial combat, although it was an aggrandizing picture, was cleverly and expertly done.

— Mary Beard

Politics, of course, requires sweat, work, combat, and organization. But these should not be ugly words for and free people.

— Nelson Rockefeller

Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life…

— Mark Dayton

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

— Criss Jami

Whilst shooting think of nothing else; brace the whole of the body; have both hands on the stick; concentrate on your ring…

— Adolph Malan

If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent…

— Jim Butcher

There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking…

— William Powell

The far object of a training system is to prepare the combat officer mentally so that he can cope with the unusual…

— Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

When people come back from war and combat and they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room…

— Donald Trump

In the 360-degree battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, women have served honorably and fought valiantly. Yet there is a key difference between…

— Pete Hegseth

Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and…

— Mako

While I was thinking about that, the military, I read a book called On Killing, about the obstacles people have to pulling…

— Charlie Brooker

If we pick a fight, then we're just as bad as them. Combat should be used just to help people who can't…

— Tamora Pierce

For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no…

— Barack Obama

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias…

— Albert Einstein

She was beautiful in combat. I know that’s a crazy thing to say, especially after we’d just climbed a sewage waterfall, but…

— Rick Riordan

If she’s out here and not locked up in the barracks, I’ll know,” he said. He took a deep breath and whistled.…

— Melina Marchetta

[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese…

— William Halsey

“Today the combat takes a different shape; instead of wishing to put man in a prison, woman endeavors to escape from one;…

— Ira Levin

In an address before the "Academia," which had been organized to combat "science falsely so called," Cardinal Manning declared his abhorrence of…

— Andrew Dickson White

“In the old days, privilege came with obligations—except for the small class of intellectuals who served a patron or, in some cases,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can…

— Bruce Lee

Part of the mission of Nash Icon is taking away some of the day-to-day, hand-to-hand combat that you have to do to…

— Scott Borchetta

I wanted to experiment with more deliberate combat but I never wanted to lose that DNA of what 'God of War' is.

— Cory Barlog

Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything:…

— Honore de Balzac

No guts, no glory. If you are going to shoot him down, you have to get in there and mix it up…

— Frederick C. Blesse

Anyone who has spoken to experienced combat troops knows that they rarely brag about their exploits. Strong and silent is the preferred…

— Linda Colley

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially…

— Kathryn Bigelow

The fundamental principle is that no battle, combat, or skirmish is to be fought unless it will be won.

— Che Guevara

The most important thing in fighting was shooting, next the various tactics in coming into a fight and last of all flying…

— Anonymous

This is an historic step forward in the world's efforts to combat a truly global threat.

— Kofi Annan

...you can extend your life tremendously by eating the right things. By eating right you can combat almost everything: disease, fatigue, over-work.

— Fred Richmond

I was in Saudi Arabia on 9/11 and was part of the initial leadership team to execute the initial combat operations in Afghanistan.

— Martha McSally

If you look at the difference between the first Clash record and 'Combat Rock,' what an evolution.

— Laura Jane Grace

By definition, transnational crime crosses borders, but efforts to combat it mostly do not.

— Jared Cohen

I was living alone, so I'd get quite lonely and running became a way to combat my loneliness and de-stress.

— Katie Piper

One of my favorite topics to read about my whole life has just been famous athletes, and a lot of those have…

— Ben Askren