Battle Quotes - page 6

Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. Captain, that is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave. (Stonewall Jackson)
She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men - not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, the strength of their soul, their compassion, and - ah, this above all - their conversation. View quote
Orson Scott Card
No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Real men despise battle, but will never run from it. View quote
George Washington
We have switched from defense to offense and in this battle all the members of the Hamas leadership are legitimate targets. View quote
Tzachi Hanegbi
One battle doesn't make a campaign but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole goddamn war. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The most important battle is one to conquer yourself. View quote
Yanni
For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases. View quote
Edwin Lefèvre
They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits. (Paolo Bacigalupi)
The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs. View quote
Herodotus
The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle. View quote
David Mamet
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. View quote
Adrienne Rich
Seldom has a battle, in which greater numbers were not engaged, been so important in its consequences as that of Cowpens.. View quote
John Marshall
Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death. View quote
Uesugi Kenshin
We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. View quote
Patrick Henry
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. View quote
Patrick Henry
Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again. View quote
René Char
The battle was over. There were no victors. View quote
Greg Bear
And about this time I had a vision - and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened – the thunder rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams – and I heard a voice saying, "Such is your luck, such you are called to see, and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it." (Nat Turner)
Christ's whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness - the setting forth in living act and word what man is meant to be, and how he should carry himself in this world of God - one long campaign in which the "temptation" stands out as the first great battle and victory. View quote
Thomas Hughes
But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act. View quote
George Orwell
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there. View quote
George Orwell
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day. View quote
Bill Watterson