Battle Quotes

2471 Battle quotes by 1603 unique authors

The whole race, which is now called Gallic or Galatic,is madly fond of war,high-spirited and quick to battle,but otherwise straightforward and not of evil character.For… — Unknown Author
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin.… — Abraham Kuyper
We're a strange animal, so often destroying what we love for selfish ends, and yet tantalized by the sense that there are other choices if… — Roland Joffe
The visual palette suggests the creepy pastel paintings of Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams); the fantasy battles with monsters and samurais echo the muscular landscapes of… — Richard Corliss
I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in… — John Harvey Kellogg
Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ...… — Michael Dirda
I guess sometimes you just have to fight your battles. — John Wagner
A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in battle, in love, with torn… — Jeff Noon
It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war. — Mark Lawrence
Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has universal value. Violence… — Jack Donovan
Most of life's battles are fought inside ourselves, & our greatest periods of growth usually come during crises. — Robert Scheid
Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze… — Nelson Algren
Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving;… — Ayn Rand
It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction. — Ludwig von Mises
In life when we feel we have reached a limit, that is when the true battle begins. Just when you despair and think it is… — Daisaku Ikeda
Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that… — Phillips Brooks
In a physical contest on the field of battle it is allowable to use tactics and strategy, to retreat as well as advance, to have… — Unknown Author
Make no mistake: Satan’s specialty is psychological warfare. If he can turn us on God (“It’s not fair!”), or turn us on others (“It’s their… — Beth Moore
The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world. — Oswald Chambers
It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise. — Brady Anderson
In battle, topography is fate. — Rick Atkinson
What we heard loud and clear is that the Battle Between the Sexes is over. It was a draw. Now we're engaged in Negotiation Between… — Maria Shriver
Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy… — David Halberstam
If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the problem of mass… — Michelle Alexander
The legends say, that Ares takes the form of his warriors and he visits their wives while they're away at battle. — Gabrielle

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