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Quotes About Battle

It's not 64 squares. It's a battlefield. There's no luck, there's no dice. It's just you and your opponent.
~ Daniel Naroditsky
Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.
~ Benazir Bhutto
'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose futility arbitrarily.
~ Elvis Mitchell
The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
~ Rollo May
Demons run when a good man goes to war.
~ Steven Moffat
It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
~ Colin Powell
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
~ John Eldredge
The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.
~ Joshua Chamberlain
The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.
~ Aristotle
Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
If we aren't victorious, let no man come back alive!
~ George S. Patton
The man-at-arms is the only man.
~ Henrik Ibsen
This was what men fought for, what men died for: a chance at life, and to fight on other days - the battle of your choice, of the body, or the heart, or the soul.
~ Janet Morris
When a man goes into the ring, he's going to war.
~ Marvin Hagler
... there's also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?" - Paul Hudson
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Old man, 40 years old against young hungry man from Great Britain!
~ Vitali Klitschko
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.
~ Homer
Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Every man has his devilish minutes.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
~ Thomas Browne
Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.
~ William Shakespeare
The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
~ Clark Moustakas