Battle Quotes - Page 4

• I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

  George McGovern

  Dream, Peace, Military

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

  Norman Mailer

  Sports, Winning, Men

  Norman Mailer (1968). “The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations”

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

  Leo Buscaglia

  Fighting, Hardest, Inspirations Being Yourself

  "Speaking Of Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1980.

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• Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle.

  George S. Patton

  Love, Real, Fighting

  "Patton: ‘The Very Idea of Losing is Hateful to an American’" by Michael W. Chapman, www.cnsnews.com. July 03, 2017.

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• 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

  Art, War, Knowledge

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• A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Lost, Acknowledge

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• 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

  Military, Demand, Great War

  "Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words".

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• The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!

  Patrick Henry

  Strong, War, Boston

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• 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

  Rights, Long, Political

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• A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

  Leonard Cohen

  Love, Allies, Watches

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.156, Emblem Editions

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• It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Car, Trying, Better Yourself

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• No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

  John F. Kennedy

  Fighting, Race, White

  Special Message to Congress on Civil Rights, 19 June 1963

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• The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

  Dorothy Day

  Community, Goes On, Segregation

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Failure, Thinking, Lost

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Life, Patience, Peace

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.194

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• 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

  Courage, Blood, Soul

  George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.176, 1st World Publishing

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• Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

  F. E. Adcock

  Military, War, Army

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• Come on boys! Give them the cold steel! Who will follow me?

  Lewis Armistead

  Inspirational, Military, War

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• The greatest battles are fought in the mind.

  Casey Treat

  Mind

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• I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Happiness, Depression, Fighting

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Flower, Bed Of Roses, Fields

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• Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

  Walt Whitman

  Fall, Good Day, Leaves Of Grass

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 18

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• There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

  John F. Kennedy

  White, Foxholes, Civil Rights

  Message to Congress on proposed civil rights bill, 19 June 1963

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• War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

  George Orwell

  Strength, Peace, Freedom

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)

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• Perseverance may be just as important as speed in the battle for the future.

  Gary Hamel

  Perseverance, Persistence, Important

  Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad (2013). “Competing for the Future”, Harvard Business Press

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