Battle Quotes - Page 5

• You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Winning, Mma, Knowing

  46 Copy quote

• To persuade your enemy to (retreat) before the fight is to defeat them even before the battle begins. An enemy made ally is no longer an enemy.

  Sun Tzu

  Fighting, Enemy, Allies

  14 Copy quote

• No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.

  Terry Goodkind

  Thinking, Sides, Thinking God

  "Wizard's First Rule". Book by Terry Goodkind, 1994.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you want to be called a dwarf you must be in immediate possession of a battle axe cause otherwise your just a midget with an attitude.

  Ralphie May

  Attitude, Dwarves, Want

  30 Copy quote

• When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Eye, Fire, Baptized In

  12 Copy quote

• I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life.

  George Armstrong Custer

  Would Be, Glad, Willing

  52 Copy quote

• It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cancer, Alzheimer's, Differences

  8 Copy quote

• The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Growth, Littles, Economic

  "Hamas Pushing for Lead Role in a New Gaza" by James Bennet, www.nytimes.com. August 21, 2005.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means.

  Chuck Smith

  Prayer, Mean

  138 Copy quote

• The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

  John Keegan

  Clever, Fighting, Men

  9 Copy quote

• We have met the enemy and they are ours.

  Oliver Hazard Perry

  Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Military

  Message toWilliam Henry Harrison, 10 Sept. 1813. The source is Perry's dispatch from the U.S. brig Niagara to General Harrison, announcing that victory at the Battle of Lake Erie was secure. The dispatch was written in pencil on the back of an old letter; it is quoted in Robert B. McAfee, History of the LateWar in theWestern Country (1816). SeeWalt Kelly 2; Walt Kelly 3

  51 Copy quote

  Show source

• **** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

  David Farragut

  War, Military, Marine

  At the battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 ('torpedoes' were mines). Capt. A. T. Mahan 'Admiral Farragut' (1892) ch. 10

  95 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only great and general battles can produce great results

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, Results, Produce

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.372, Lulu.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no other course but the one we have chosen, except the course of humiliation and darkness, after which there will be no bright sign in the sky or brilliant light on earth? All this will make us more patient and steadfast, and better prepared for the battle which God blesses and which good men support. Then there will only be a glorious conclusion, where a brilliant sun will clear the dust of battle, and where the clouds of battles will be dispelled.

  Saddam Hussein

  Men, Clouds, Light

  1991 Baghdad radio broadcast, 21 Feb.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• A hard drill makes an easy battle.

  Alexander Suvorov

  Easy, Drills, Hard

  29 Copy quote

• In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Fighting, Moon

  Sun Tzu (2013). “The Art of War”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only the present conflict has ceased. There will be no peace as long as we react to violence with violence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Yoga, Winning

  7 Copy quote

• ...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.

  Karl Marx

  Communication, Winning, Class

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.82, BookCaps Study Guides

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

  Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

  Moral, Infantry, Lost

  22 Copy quote

• The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to be guided through the favelas of Brazil and the shantytowns of South Africa. The recently opened Los Angeles Gang Tour carries visitors through battle-scarred territories of urban violence and deprivation.

  Leslie Jamison

  Past, Years, Tourism

  11 Copy quote

• Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God’s way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friend Fight out life’s battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red, Threw down his broken sword and fled. Another snatched it, won the day, With what his comrade flung away.

  Edwin Markham

  Fighting, Broken, Soldier

  5 Copy quote

• A battle cry" Mr. Bennet said "is a warrior's calling card. Only it does not say 'Good afternoon. I have come for tea and crumpets.' It says 'Death has come for you! Flee or be killed where you stand!

  Steve Hockensmith

  Warrior, Mrs Bennet, Tea

  5 Copy quote

• If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Horse, Atheism, Finals

  Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We've all got to remember to pick our battles carefully, to be prepared to lose small ones, and to hold out for big ones.

  Marge M. Kennedy

  Remember, Lost, Bigs

  Marge M. Kennedy (1994). “The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wise

  30 Copy quote