Quotes About Battle

The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.

La guerra es de por vida en los hombres, porque es guerra la vida, y vivir y militar es una misma cosa

We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.

weapon for action. "'Be ye men of peace,'" he intoned, "'but gird firmly thy loins for righteous battle!' Thus saith the Lord God which is Jehovah. Selah!

The devil will try any trick to keep God's people out of spiritual warfare... he has everything to gain by it.

In his preparations for the battle of Waterloo Napoleon contrived to produce a grand slam of mistakes. It is surprising that his great name as a captain has survived the lengthy checklist of errors he committed that day, or that Wellington should have gained such a great reputation for taking advantage of opportunities that were virtually handed him on a plate.

he showed consummate folly in allowing the Duke to fight on ground of his own choosing.

The peculiarity of the Battle of Waterloo was its narrow compass, with 140,000 men crammed into three square miles; the front was only four kilometres wide, as against ten at Austerlitz.

Spartans... tonight we dine in Hell!

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. —EPHESIANS 6:12

Now that's true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do but fetch Robert to stop me.

Every incident in the history of the world, whether it was the flight of a gnat or a great battle, revealed by the very fact of its occurrence the mystery that was inherent in it.

El amor, Ariane, es la única batalla que se gana retrocediendo. –¿Quién es el cretino que dijo eso? ¿Tú? –Bonaparte, que no era moco de pavo en cuestión de estrategia.

Hoc tibi iuventus Romana indicimus bellum.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive le sacre mercenaire

By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.

It will be a war between an elephant and a tiger. If the tiger ever stands still the elephant will crush him with his mighty tusks. But the tiger does not stand still. He lurks in the jungle by day and emerges only at night. He will leap upon the back of the elephant, tearing huge chunks from his hide, and then he will leap back into the dark jungle. And slowly the elephant will bleed to death. That will be the war of Indochina."39

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.

Sometimes the hardest battle only exists within yourself, our mind fighting amongst the demons of thought within our own head.

Sometimes the hardest battles only exists within ourselves, our mind fighting amongst the demons of thought within our own head.

Ten spears go to battle," he whispered, "and nine shatter. Did the war forge the one that remained? No, Amaran. All the war did was identify the spear that would not break .

Hello, a cheerful voice said in his mind. Would you like to destroy some evil today?