Battle Quotes - Page 15

• I tend to not have to handle things that are probably gonna end up being irrelevant, that aren't gonna have much to do with the film. I have probably a better understanding of really what does matter, when to pick my battles and when to kind of let them go.

  Peter Berg

  Understanding, Doe, Matter

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• Fiction. . . . It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins.

  Shauna Singh Baldwin

  Winning, Fiction, Cobras

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• I would prefer to battle the 'I'm special' feeling not by the thought, 'I'm no more special than anyone else,' by by the feeling, 'Everyone is as special as me.'

  C. S. Lewis

  Feelings, Special

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• Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Nine

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• Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exempt[ion]...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, War, Hero

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• The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Destiny, Spiders

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• Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the battle against whatever is not God's will.

  Peter Forsyth

  Prayer, Effort, Weapons

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• The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.

  Home Run Baker

  Games, Care, Pitching

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• It's going to be Perry, it's going to be Romney...It's sort of a battle for the soul of the Republican Party - and they have no soul, but the space where a soul would be.

  Bill Maher

  Party, Space, Soul

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• Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Military, Mistake, Moving

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. February 14, 2007.

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• To most observers, innovation is a solitary process that requires creativity and genius, perhaps even greatness. It can't, in their view, be managed or predicted, just hoped for and, perhaps, facilitated. But for me innovation was and still is more than that. It was a battle in the marketplace between innovators or attackers trying to make money by changing the order of things, and defenders protecting their cash flow.

  Richard J. Foster

  Creativity, Greatness, Cash Flow

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• There should be no more shame in acknowledging (mental illness) than in acknowledging a battle with high blood pressure or the sudden appearance of a malignant tumor.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Blood, Pressure, Mental Illness

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• The gospel teaches us that though we may have lost a battle or two, the war is not yet over. With the Lord's help and the hope of the gospel, we can win out in the end. Truth ultimately triumphs over falsehood. Evil is overwhelmed by goodness. Sin, however extreme it may have been, can give way to cleansing and refreshing forgiveness. This is the great hope of the gospel, centered as it is in the life, mission and atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

  David S. Baxter

  Jesus, War, Sacrifice

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• One way we could describe the struggle of life would be to say it is a battle between agency and addiction. Agency is our power to choose, and addiction is what happens when we have lost that power and we are controlled by something else.

  John Bytheway

  Struggle, Agency, Addiction

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• You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training, the first rule is to instill soldiers with trust in their officers - because without trust, they won't fight.

  Peter Drucker

  Military, Fighting, Organization

  Peter F. Drucker (2010). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Principles and Practices”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• I wouldn't say that we're proactively out there hunting down brands to try to fulfill some piece of a larger battle plan or something. If they have things they want to get to us, we're somewhat easily accessible through our managers and record companies.

  Lars Ulrich

  Hunting, Trying, Pieces

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• The work of God can only be carried on by the power of God. The church is a spiritual organism fighting spiritual battles: only spiritual power can make it perform as God ordained.

  Jim Cymbala

  Spiritual, Fighting, Church

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.109, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We as Bible-believing evangelical Christians are locked in a battle. This is not a friendly gentleman's discussion. It is a life and death conflict between the spiritual hosts of wickedness and those who claim the name of Christ.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Spiritual, Believe

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• I believe the reason many Christians are so dull and lifeless in their faith is because they are not in the battle, not using their weapons, not advancing against the enemy.

  George Verwer

  Christian, Believe, Enemy

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• The blow back from the cold war is that a weakened Russia allowed Afghanistan to become a failed state, and then all this weaponry to flow into all these other conflicts. Our greatest triumph has almost fueled our most intractable battle now.

  Jon Stewart

  War, Blow, Russia

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• When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Morning, Armor, Resentment

  Eknath Easwaran (1979). “The End of Sorrow: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Vol I”, p.46, Nilgiri Press

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• Under the Sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor wealth to the intelligent, nor success to the skillful, but time and chance govern all. For man does not know his time.

  Solomon

  Wise, Strong, Intelligent

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• We are involved in an intense battle. It is a battle between right and wrong, between truth and error, between the design of the Almighty on the one hand and that of Lucifer on the other. For that reason, we desperately need moral men and women who stand on principle, to be involved in the political process. Otherwise, we abdicate power to those whose designs are almost entirely selfish.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Selfish, Men, Errors

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• There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Soldier, Good Man

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• When two opposing sides meet in battle, the one without an enemy will be victorious.

  Laozi

  Two, Enemy, Sides

  Laozi (2005). “Tao te ching: a new translation & commentary”

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