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Quotes About Battle

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
~ Georges Clemenceau
It's the four Ds, Corvus. Dress. Discipline. And dealing death.
~ Geraint Jones
Good morning war. Good morning money.
~ Gerald A. Browne
'Tis man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success.
~ Homer
We shall live to fight again, and to strike another blow.
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp, and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear.
~ James Ramsey Ullman
O God, if in the day of battle I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me.
~ William King
I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all Summer.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
He that is not in the war is not out of danger.
~ Anonymous
Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
~ General Douglas MacArthur
Spirituality is ... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.
~ Anonymous
In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions, but I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them and make them right.
~ General George S. Patton
The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.
~ General George S. Patton
Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.
~ Friedrich von Schiller
I have always been driven by some distant music-a battle hymn no doubt-for I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous.
~ Bette Davis
To take arms against a sea of troubles.
~ William Shakespeare
We have met the enemy and they are ours.
~ Oliver Hazard Perry
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
~ Georges Clemenceau
Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others.
~ Horatio Nelson
I have prayed in her fields of poppies, I have laughed with the men who died - But in all my ways and through all my days Like a friend He walked beside. I have seen a sight under Heaven That only God understands, In the battle's glare I have seen Christ there With the Sword of God in His hand.
~ Gordon Johnstone
Those who live are those who fight.
~ Victor Hugo
Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.
~ Proverb
Addiction is a monster, and it's a really difficult monster to fight.
~ Stephanie Beatriz, 2019
Konkurrenz ist eine Sublimierung von Krieg.
~ J.M. Coetzee