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If you have no faith, you've lost your battle. -- Bill Cosby
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war. -- Charles de Gaulle
Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained. -- Duke of Wellington
A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost. -- Ferdinand Foch
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. -- Duke of Wellington
The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers. -- John Vinocur
Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won. -- Duke of Wellington
Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. -- Douglas Haig
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. -- George Orwell
Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them? -- Arthur Hugh Clough
If, in the name of combating terrorism, we so restrict our own freedom, have we not thereby lost part of the very battle we seek to win? -- Jed S. Rakoff
Not death but disease is the real enemy; disease, the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. -- Frederick Douglass
There are a lot of battles to face, and if I didn't have that religious core - that base to turn to - I would be truly lost. -- Moira Kelly
Lost' did alright, you know. Not that I didn't get into it - I just never watched enough of them; but the uphill battle is that you've got to stay tuned. -- Jason Wiles
Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer. -- Marla Sokoloff
Shoes are a neutral blessing for us because feet generally aren't regarded as a place where the battle for self-esteem is won or lost. Feet don't change size when the body does through the natural ageing process. -- Simon Van Booy
I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical. -- Zadie Smith
There is something about military history that fascinates me. You find that many battles have been lost by people with very good military background when they fought battles in a battleground they didn't understand. I have seen that in business, too. You have to look at a marketplace like a battle-ground. -- David Cheriton
Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Donâ??t keep fighting battles that are already lost. -- David Nicholls
Battles are won and lost before they are fought. -- Ashwin Sanghi
All battles are first won or lost, in the mind. -- Joan of Arc
Most of life's battles are won or lost in the mind. -- Craig Groeschel
Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. -- Walt Whitman
In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars. -- H. L. Mencken
You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here. -- Paulo Coelho
Most physical battles begin once mental ones have been lost, anyway. Conquer the mind, conquer the body. -- A.J. Darkholme
You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in. -- Harold Clarke Goddard

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