Quotes on Battle

After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

Author: Jack Adams

I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share.

Author: Roone Arledge

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

Author: Owen Arthur

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

Author: Georges Bataille

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment.

Author: Kit Bond

We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it.

Author: Richard Branson

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

Author: John Burroughs

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

Author: Cao

We had our first meeting yesterday, and we just laughed all the way through, so if we can bottle that, then I'll be happy. We just get on, and that's half the battle.

Author: Allan Carr

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.

Author: Joshua Chamberlain

If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary.

Author: Dennis Chavez

But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

Author: Sandra Cisneros

Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?

Author: Arthur Clough

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Author: Robert Collier

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Author: e. cummings

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

Author: Tyne Daly

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

Author: Maurice Denis

I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat.

Author: Jonathan Dimbleby

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

Author: Georges Duhamel

It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.

Author: Dale Earnhardt

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.

Author: Anne Edwards

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

Author: Dwight Eisenhower

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Author: Dwight Eisenhower

When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.

Author: Siobhan Fahey

The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.

Author: William Falconer

So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead.

Author: Cyril Falls

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

Author: Ferdinand Foch

The story is also about the battle between Arthur and the Saxons. The Saxons were destroying everything they came across and Arthur was left when Rome was falling because this movie takes place in 400 A.D.

Author: Antoine Fuqua

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

Author: Richard Gallienne

From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.

Author: Philip Gibbs

I had a very public battle with anorexia.

Author: Tracey Gold

You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.

Author: Al Goldstein

It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.

Author: Lady Gregory

Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.

Author: Heinz Guderian

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

Author: Douglas Haig

Everything is a battle with this band.

Author: Kenny Hickey

As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers.

Author: Daniel Hill

After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault.

Author: John Hood

If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.

Author: Andrew Jackson

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Author: Samuel Johnson

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

Author: Walid Jumblatt

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

Author: John Keegan

June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.

Author: Robert Kirkman

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Author: Henry Kissinger

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.

Author: Fritz Kreisler

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

Author: Marquis Lafayette

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

Author: Christian Lange

General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.

Author: James Longstreet

As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines.

Author: James Longstreet

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.

Author: Federico Lorca

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

Author: Robert Ludlum

All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.

Author: Ann Macbeth

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.

Author: David Mamet

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

Author: Gabriel Marcel

Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!

Author: Cheech Marin

I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.

Author: Marc Maron

There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.

Author: Wynton Marsalis

I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle.

Author: Peter Mayhew

On 'don't ask, don't tell' I was always the same. I said we needed a complete review of the impact on morale and battle effectiveness of 'don't ask, don't tell' before we repeal it. That's my position now. Now they're trying to ram through a repeal without a - any kind of really realistic survey done.

Author: John McCain

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

Author: John Mill

No plan of battle ever survives contact with the enemy.

Author: Helmuth Moltke

I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

Author: Richard Nixon

The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back.

Author: Greg Norman

When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.

Author: Maureen O'Hara

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.

Author: George Orwell

Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand.

Author: Robert Owen

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

Author: Thomas Paine

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

Author: George Patton

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Author: Philo

The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle.

Author: Terry Porter

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Author: Colin Powell

No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

Author: J. Powell

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.

Author: Isaac Rosenberg

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

Author: Damon Runyon

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

Author: Sallust

I'm not here to battle anybody. In the end it's just an instrument. That shouldn't be a concept.

Author: Eric San

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Author: Lucius Seneca

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.

Author: Cybill Sheperd

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

Author: William Sherman

He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.

Author: Tacitus

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

Author: Major Taylor

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Author: Margaret Thatcher

Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

Author: Cal Thomas

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

Author: Anthony Trollope

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.

Author: Harry Truman

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

Author: Leon Uris

The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.

Author: John Vinocur

We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.

Author: Abdoulaye Wade

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Author: Alice Walker

A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on.

Author: Murray Walker

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

Author: Arthur Wellesley

The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.

Author: Arthur Wellesley

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Author: Arthur Wellesley

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

Author: Duke Wellington

Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.

Author: Ryan White

Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.

Author: Ahmed Yassin

The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of others, but those who win battles we know nothing about.

Author: Katherine Brooks

Life is a series of combats; thriving through them makes us stronger warriors.

Author: Amelia West

Sometimes, the strongest battles are not the ones fought with weapons, but with kindness.

Author: Haley Barker

The fiercest battles are fought within, where courage meets fear in glorious combat.

Author: Sophia Grant