Battle Quotes

Pessimism never won any battle.

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

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
Erwin Rommel

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 Douglas

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster

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

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

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win
Jonathan Kozol

If I had believed in a God of rewards and punishments, I might have lost courage in battle

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle won.
Duke Of Wellington

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

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.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Jean Paul Sartre

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
Wellesley Wellington

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs

A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

The battle is tough but if you reach where you want to go, then at least in some sense it is worth it.
Adolf Galland

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
Queen Elizabeth II







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