Battles Quotes
545 quotes by 421 authors
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Know yourself and you will win all battles. Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still…
— Sun Tzu
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The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies…
— Sun Tzu
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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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You've just got to get over that mental hurdle and those battles in your own head during matches when things aren't going so well. It…
— Samantha Stosur
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Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
— George C. Marshall
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Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military…
— Clare Boothe Luce
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Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.
— Sun Tzu
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Without cavalry, battles are without result.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is not big armies that win battles, it is the good ones.
— Maurice de Saxe
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Life's battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.
— Richard Bach
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Battles are fought in our minds every day. When we begin to feel the battle is just too difficult and want to give up, we…
— Joyce Meyer
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The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering…
— Winston Churchill
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Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.
— Frederick The Great
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It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of…
— Frederick The Great
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Therefore I say: know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the…
— Sun Tzu
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When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment.…
— Jack Kornfield
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Over the last six months, I've seen what these two futures look like. And six months from now, we'll all be living in one, or…
— Sandra Fluke
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Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the…
— Sun Tzu
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I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could…
— Arthur Ashe
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LIGHT FROM WITHIN my friend, cancer got you damn it: you had it beat for seven years at least. how did it come back? Why…
— Wallace Stevens
Who Wrote These Battles Quotes
421 authors contributed a total of 545 Battles Quotes, led by these top contributors: