Battle Quotes - Page 36

• "Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time.

  Janet Morris

  Dream, Home, Suffering

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• Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

  George Eliot

  Fighting, Winning, Coward

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.27

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• LIGHT FROM WITHIN my friend, cancer got you damn it: you had it beat for seven years at least. how did it come back? Why all that pain. again. and you, such a fighter you fought me over and over with tears and words and promises. you fought for me with honesty and a light so bright it hurts my heart. sweet lorna. at peace now finally no more battles, just light from within a flickering candle in the dark burns with you.

  Wallace Stevens

  Sweet, Hurt, Peace

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• If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Honesty, Military, Warfare

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• I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Smart, Winning, Luck

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• You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows...and has always known...that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Dream, War

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• The spirit of a warrior is not geared to indulging and complaining, nor is it geared to winning or losing. The spirit of a warrior is geared only to struggle, and every struggle is a warrior's last battle on earth. Thus the outcome matters very little to him. In his last battle on earth a warrior lets his spirit flow free and clear. And as he wages his battle, knowing that his intent is impeccable, a warrior laughs and laughs.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Struggle, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Separate Reality”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fighting, Retreat, Action

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• When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Respect, Courage, Regret

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• So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the struggle. Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; secession means the loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this as of many many other evils ... the quarrel between North and South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel.

  Charles Dickens

  Lying, Party, Struggle

  Charles Dickens (1862). “All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal”, p.330

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• Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of a horse-drawn vehicle, being treated for disease by a doctor or surgeon rather than a witch, and being killed with an automatic pistol or shell in place of a dagger or a battle-axe.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Horse, Science, Men

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• Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  War, Done, Armor

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.277, Penguin

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• There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Hands, Brave, Peaceful

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1949). “Murder by gaslight: Victorian tales”

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• After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Drawing, Hands, Play

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Military, Mind

  The Guns of August ch. 2 (1962)

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• Their example testifies that Baptism commits Christians to participating courageously in the spreading of the Kingdom of God, if need be cooperating with the sacrifice of life itself... This martyrdom of ordinary life constitutes a particularly important witness in the secularized society of our time. It is the peaceful battle of love which every Christian, like Paul, must fight without flagging: the race to spread the Gospel that involves us until our death. May the Virgin Mary, Queen of Martyrs and Star of Evangelization, help us in our daily witness.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Queens, Stars

  Pope Benedict XVI's Angelus, w2.vatican.va. October 28, 2007.

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• We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism...we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today...our battle is with Satan himself.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Humor, Fighting

  "From bad to worse" by Melissa McEwan, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2006.

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• Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have been killed in battle, butchered in their sleep, burned to death at public festivals of sacrifice, poisoned, tortured, assassinated, and pillaged in the spirit of the Religion of Peace, and for the glory of the most merciful God.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Religious, Children, Sleep

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Homer, Euripides, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1929). “The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”

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• No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are. Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Moving, Fighting

  Sun Tzu, General Press (2016). “The Art of War”, p.61, GENERAL PRESS

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• The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Victory, Sides

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.56, Shambhala Publications

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• Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Moving, Enemy

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• To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful. Everyone calls victory in battle good, but it is not really good.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Victory, Perceive

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.90, Shambhala Publications

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• Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.

  Sun Tzu

  Inspirational Life, Lying, War

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• To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Victory, Conquer

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• Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the direst necessityand, if compelled, will use themonly with the utmost restraint.Peace is his highest value.If the peace has been shattered,how can he be content?His enemies are not demons,but human beings like himself.He doesn't wish them personal harm.Nor does he rejoice in victory.How could he rejoice in victoryand delight in the slaughter of men?He enters a battle gravely,with sorrow and with great compassion,as if he were attending a funeral

  Laozi

  Peace, Compassion, Men

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