Quotes About Battle

The trumpet's loud clangorExcites us to arms.

The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.

Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem.

There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end.

Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent.

She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.

life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.

The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

I believe unless we have ambition to accomplish things and to do things that we amount to but very little in the battle of life.

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.

You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up-

Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.

Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions.

Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.

It is sometimes easier to trust God in a life-threatening battle than in the small challenges of daily life.

We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical battle all of the time.

I'm fighting for my life, I have to defend myself. If I don't defend myself, no one else will.

It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.

The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one's life.

Let me tell you, life is interesting regardless of when you are in the fight.

Although Meade's Army of the Potomac, under the personal direction of Grant, did suffer high casualties (41 percent) during its drive to the James River, it imposed even higher casualties on Lee's army (46 percent). In

For the French army was going to war. In taxis.

This ploughman dead in battle slept out of doors Many a frozen night, and merrily Answered staid drinkers, good bedmen, and all bores: "At Mrs Greenland's Hawthorn Bush," said he, "I slept." None knew which bush. Above the town, Beyond `The Drover', a hundred spot the down In Wiltshire. And where now at last he sleeps More sound in France -that, too, he secret keeps.

Success does not mean the absence of failures. It means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.