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Battle... brings out all that is best. -- George S. Patton
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. -- Margaret Thatcher
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. -- Donald Trump
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. -- e. e. cummings
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious. -- Vince Lombardi
Battle is an orgy of disorder. -- George S. Patton
For after the Battle comes quiet. -- H. G. Wells
Battle scars just remind us that we survived. -- Shelly Crane
Battle not with monsters, for then you become one. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Battle day and night against the guile of oblivion... -- Søren Kierkegaard
Battle rap is a culture. That's boxing, it's like boxing. -- Ab-Soul
Can't escape pain, kiddo. Battle through it and you get stronger. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
The Battle of Normandy was won on the beaches of Dieppe -- Louis Mountbatten
The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. -- Duke of Wellington
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. -- Gautama Buddha
June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope. -- Robert Kirkman
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. -- George S. Patton
Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories. -- Sun Tzu
Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise. -- David Bowie
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. -- George S. Patton
The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers. -- John Vinocur
Knowledge is a Weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to Battle. -- George R. R. Martin
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. -- Thomas Carlyle
More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle -- C. S. Lewis
Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own. -- P. C. Cast
After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor. -- Jack Adams
Four will Become Two, Lion and Tiger will Meet in Battle, and Blood will Rule the Forest. -- Erin Hunter
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. -- George McGovern
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. -- Patrick Henry
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. -- Leonard Cohen
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. -- Golda Meir
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. -- James Joyce
To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. -- Sun Tzu
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter. -- Winston Churchill
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. -- George Bernard Shaw
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. -- James A. Baldwin
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at. -- Jesse Owens
But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44. -- Tom Hanks
It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle. -- Sun Tzu
A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles: he goes on -- Paulo Coelho
Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country. -- Marquis de Lafayette
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war. -- Charles de Gaulle
It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself. -- Dale Earnhardt
We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle. -- Maggie Stiefvater
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. -- Bob Marley
I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it. -- Demi Lovato
Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling. -- Naveen Jain
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. -- Sun Tzu
The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too. -- Louise Brown
There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success. -- Phil Knight
We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. -- Patrick Henry
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
We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned. -- Thor Heyerdahl
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We struggle with eating healthily, obesity, and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food. -- Marcus Samuelsson
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved. -- Samuel Smiles
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion. -- Virginia Postrel
The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle. -- Naomi Wolf
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. -- George S. Patton
You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end. -- George Armstrong Custer
I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it. -- Kristin Armstrong
Art is really a battle. -- Edgar Degas
Brave men die in battle. -- William Rosecrans
Half-heartedness never won a battle. -- William McKinley
In battle, topography is fate. -- Rick Atkinson
Pessimism never won any battle. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
No plan survives the battle field. -- Helmuth James Graf von Moltke
Let heaven-eyed Prudence battle with Desire. -- James Thomas Fields
Art cannot be above the battle. -- Hyman Taubman
Ongoing battle against liberals nationalizing healthcare. -- Newt Gingrich
A battle avoided cannot be lost. -- Sun Tzu
I had my own battle tactics. -- Lech Walesa
Honorable battle sustains a Sacred Band. -- Janet Morris
Are you winning the battle against materialism? -- Randy Alcorn
Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle. -- Zhuangzi
Peace is the only battle worth waging. -- Albert Camus
Every battle, every victory has been won! -- Pat Boone
Christianity is a battle, not a dream. -- Wendell Phillips
Without a battle there is no victory. -- John Arnott
Practice is the battle you must win. -- Hugh McCutcheon
A bold onset is half the battle. -- Giuseppe Garibaldi
The first blow is half the battle. -- Oliver Goldsmith
A hard drill makes an easy battle. -- Alexander Suvorov
More die in flight than in battle. -- Selma LagerlÃ¶f
Half the battle is just showing up. -- Stephen Hawking
Patience is the key to any battle. -- Ieyasu Tokugawa
Courage in danger is half the battle. -- Plautus
Never let the enemy pick the battle site. -- George S. Patton
In battle, one must adhere to one's beliefs. -- Azai Nagamasa
We find new strength in every battle won. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Successful investment is a battle for financial survival. -- Gerald M. Loeb
There are no winners in battle. Just survivors. -- E.E. Knight
No battle plan survives contact with the enemy. -- Colin Powell
When he wins the battle, the Warrior celebrates. -- Paulo Coelho
The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory. -- Bob Marley
Of course we fight. What sisters don't battle? -- Olivia De Havilland
Everyone prepares for battle in his own way. -- Janet Morris
When you're wearing the Avalanche logo, you battle. -- Patrick Roy
Every battle is won before it is fought. -- Sun Tzu
Men die in battle; women die in childbirth. -- Philippa Gregory
To lose patience is to lose the battle. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The biggest battle in life is with yourself -- Dennis Prager
It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done. -- Robert Jordan
Finding the tool is often half the battle. -- Andy Rooney
Faith is a vulnerable thing, not a battle. -- David Bazan
I had a very public battle with anorexia. -- Tracey Gold
Man's greatest battle is being a true philosopher. -- Kedar Joshi
A man prepared has half fought the battle. -- Miguel de Cervantes
The battle for women's rights has been largely won. -- Margaret Thatcher
Every photograph is a battle of form versus content. -- Garry Winogrand
You can't fight a battle you don't think exists. -- John Eldredge
A battle that you win cancels all your mistakes. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression. -- Sebastian Faulks
A Warrior knows when a battle is worth fighting. -- Paulo Coelho
The greater the battle - the greater the spoils. -- T. D. Jakes
No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion -- William Faulkner

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