Battles Quotes

545 Battles quotes by 421 unique authors

I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting. — Mike Wallace
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same… — Walt Whitman
The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried… — Juan Williams
I think that property is very important in this day and age. It defines you; you worked hard to get it. It's meaningful to you,… — Helen Fisher
It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars,… — Andrew Sean Greer
When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... ...they call this… — Dr. Seuss
Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. — L. Ron Hubbard
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he… — Vince Lombardi
Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. — Walt Whitman
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along. — Gwendolyn Brooks
It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the… — Alexandra Ripley
A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his… — Michael O'Brien
Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships… — J.R.R. Tolkien
To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct.… — Michel de Montaigne
When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to save their own lives as best they… — Baroness Orczy
This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then,… — Larry McMurtry
Your thoughts about your circumstances have you down. On the other hand, you can be in one of the biggest battles of your life, and… — Joel Osteen
That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song,' he… — Terry Pratchett
Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age. You have all… — Orson Scott Card
But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in… — Paulo Coelho
I thought you were supposed to be the champion of your people,' I said. I live because I need to do that. For anyone who… — Alice Hoffman
Will picked a single blossom from a gorse bush beside him; it shone bright yellow on his grubby hand. "People are very complicated," he said… — Susan Cooper
I be crazy too, little buddy, but at least when I be craziest, I be floating all alone in space and the crazy, she float… — Orson Scott Card
Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any… — Patrick Henry

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