Quotes About Battles

Brian and Kara look a lot like us. Like them, we forget that it is in the little moments that spiritual battles are lost and won.

The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

I've always embraced battles that are a daily occurrence.

I have been in my fair share of both onscreen and off screen fights.

Agamemnon escaped with his life From land battles and sea storms, then fell to his wife.

When you've been a soldier for thirty-five years you like to win battles, but you like to feel you helped bring peace, too.

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 the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for

I know men who regard religion as something for women and children and preachers. They pride themselves on being "he-men" who can fight their battles alone.

In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.

Where Western strategists reflect on the means to assemble superior power at the decisive point, Sun Tzu addresses the means of building a dominant political and psychological position, such that the outcome of a conflict becomes a foregone conclusion. Western strategists test their maxims by victories in battles; Sun Tzu tests by victories where battles have become unnecessary.

He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him.

The minister's leadership of the congregation in its mission to the world will be first and foremost in the area of his or her own discipleship, in that life of prayer and daily consecration which remains hidden from the world but which is the place where the essential battles are either won or lost.

Because diseases have been the biggest killers of people, they have also been decisive shapers of history. Until World War II, more victims of war died of war-borne microbes than of battle wounds. All those military histories glorifying great generals oversimplify the ego-deflating truth: the winners of past wars were not always the armies with the best generals and weapons, but were often merely those bearing the nastiest germs to transmit to their enemies.

the author Leo Tolstoy, who maintained that leaders and generals had minimal influence on the course of history. To make his point, Tolstoy included in his novel War and Peace fictitious accounts of battles in which generals issue orders, but the orders are irrelevant to what is actually happening on the battlefield.

Troll Wars were like Batman movies: both were repeated at regular intervals, featured expensive hardware, and were broadly predictable.

The work of God can only be carried on by the power of God. The church is a spiritual organism fighting spiritual battles: only spiritual power can make it perform as God ordained.

I don't let things stress me out, and I'm doing my best with all the battles life presents.

I don't pick opponents. I don't care about who I'm going to fight.

Remember the war against Franco?That's the kind where each of us belongs.Though he may have won all the battles,We had all the good songs.

only the defeated know LOVE. because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles - and generally lose ........

All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered foolishness. If you're a good warrior you will not blame yourself for this, but neither will you allow your mistakes to repeat themselves.

You told me that all life's battles teach us something, even those we lose.

Do not forget: seek to win all your battles, including those you fight against yourself. Do not fear the scars. Do not be afraid of victory.