Battle Quotes

I have a tendency toward the pleasures of the flesh. It's a battle for me, as far as weight and things like that. But I'm curbing them because I want to continue to do comedy, and the two don't mix. So I try to fight those demons.

Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.

I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight.

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

There's an internal battle. I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids and the kids win.

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.

I think right now it's a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

This is going to become a battle for access to your home and office plus mobility. It's about who can provide the biggest and least expensive and fastest pipe to your home and office and offer you a mobility feature.

When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.

All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.

It's the progressive left in this country that has viciously and systematically slimed female conservatives for their beliefs. We have the well-worn battle scars to prove it.

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.

People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.

I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.

This country owes them all a debt of gratitude. The down payment on that debt is making sure that we live up to Lincoln's charge: to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan.

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

Eating healthy is a constant battle. I love chips. I'm a huge pasta fan.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.

Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

I'm not here to battle anybody. In the end it's just an instrument. That shouldn't be a concept.

Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.

The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds.

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.

We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.

I had my own battle tactics.

A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on.

The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom.

Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.

Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.