Battle Quotes

Courage in danger is half the battle. (Plautus)
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. View quote
Golda Meir
Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts? View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Pessimism never won any battle. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. View quote
Erwin Rommel
One minute decides the outcome of a battle, one hour the success of a campaign, one day the fate of empires. View quote
Alexander Suvorov
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. (George S. Patton)
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do. View quote
Benito Mussolini
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. View quote
James Baldwin
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. View quote
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. [It] has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. View quote
John Cheever
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership. View quote
Ann Landers
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. View quote
Sun Tzu
The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction. View quote
Gabriel Marcel
There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort. View quote
Norman Borlaug
In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which. View quote
George R. R. Martin
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. View quote
William Morris