Quotes About Battle

When, lithe of limb, she danced the Pyrrhic, loud clapping followed; and the Paphlagonians asked, If these women fought by their side in battle? to which they answered, To be sure, it was the women who routed the great King, and drove him out of camp. So ended the night.

Here, too, is a maxim to engrave upon the memory: in charging a superior force, never to leave a difficult tract of ground in the rear of your attack, since there is all the difference in the world between a stumble in flight and a stumble in pursuit.

Some of us give up[…] with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others—and I am one of those—never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success.

Reason comes to do battle for you. You are reassured. Reason is fully equipped with the latest weapons technology. But, to your amazement, despite superior tactics and a number of undeniable victories, reason is laid low.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.

The problem with wearing a dress is that it clashes with a sword.

Five warriors or less is a skirmish. Fifteen or less, a fray. Fifty, a conflict. More than that is a battle.

By force of arms. (Vi Et Armis)

Outside the Weirwall, Jack could hear the thud of bodies colliding and the cries of the wounded. It seemed like a lot of noise. Even given the fact that Ellen was involved. "Why'd she go out there?" Jack demanded. "Why didn't you stop her?" Brooks spat on the ground. "Have you ever tried to stop Captain Stephenson from anythin'?

At least I fight my own battles, Alister,' Micah said. 'Really? And exactly why did you go cackling to the dean?

It was just a different kind of battle, one he'd have to learn to win

Don't pick a fight you can't win.

Guess you're not used to targets that shoot back.

Seseorang tidak akan secara sukarela mempertahankan negerinya, kecuali jika dia seorang patriot yang penuh semangat. Perasaan kebencian terhadap sekutu yang anda akan tanamkan harus diperkuatvdengan perasaan cinta kepada tanah air yang sifatnya positif sebagaimana yang kuajarkan. Seseorang yang akan memimpin pasukannya dalam medan pertempuran harus memiliki sesuatu untuk apa dia berjuang.

There are no 'ifs' in combat. When you win, you win, When you lose, you lose.

Life was an ongoing war against unseen and usually undefined enemies.

We have an opponent who wants nothing more than to bring about our demise.

Out of every one-hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior and he will bring the others back.

To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes, it buys at the price of soul.

All is war.

Older men declare war. But its the youth who must fight and die!

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

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

to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.