Quotes About Battle

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.

I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.

Use God's mighty weapons, not those made by men, to knock down the devil's strongholds.

I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

Every man is his own worst enemy

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier.

I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.

Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.

When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

In the heart of man, there is a constant conflict between the flesh and the spirit.

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.

Many a ship's officer, caught in a storm or battle, and seized by a natural tendency to freeze up in terror, was moved to action by the vivid helplessness of his crew.

In war, no matter how much you plan and prepare and practice, when the big day actually arrives, you still can't find your ass with both hands.