Battle Quote by Kevin Hearne

As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time.

— Kevin Hearne

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last…

— Barbara W Tuchman

You have to be prepared to fight and finish your own battles.

— Jim Harbaugh

Another of the hard things about being in a war, grandchildren, is that although there are times of quiet when the fighting has stopped,…

— Joseph Bruchac

Everyone prepares for battle in his own way.

— Janet Morris

The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.

— Cory Doctorow

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

— Otto von Bismarck

I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage…

— Woodrow Wilson

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once…

— Robert Collier

“The glamorous side is all they want to hear, the real part of war isn’t believed or [is] listened to with a bored feeling,…

— Dan Levin

If you go into a battle, it's better to win the first time.

— George S. Patton

Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and…

— Niccolo Machiavelli