Battle Quotes

Pages of history are smeared with gory tales of blood battles. Since time immemorial, men have strived for maximum power and dominion, invading each other’s territory and killing thousands of innocent people, all in the name of power and freedom. Of course, you have heard of ‘Alexander’ and ‘Napoleon Bonaparte’ but you may go blank if somebody asks you about what they have done to make them great except waging wars. Take a look at these battle quotes to widen your gateway of information about battles.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.
Love
R. Kelly

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.
Good Attitude Commitment Fulfillment
John Greenleaf Whittier

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

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
Religion Belief Optimism People
Malcolm X

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I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.
Time Equality History
Michael B. Jordan

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Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Death Surprise
Che Guevara

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Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
Purpose Violence Wars Fighting
Adolf Hitler

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The presidential race should not be a battle of personalities.
Race
Kayleigh McEnany

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If your No. 1 priority isn't winning, and people can tell? That's the battle. Now there's a problem between people, because that guy's No. 1 priority is winning, and that guy's isn't.
People Winning
Jimmy Butler

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I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.
Strength
Demi Lovato

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I have a tendency toward the pleasures of the flesh. It's a battle for me, as far as weight and things like that. But I'm curbing them because I want to continue to do comedy, and the two don't mix. So I try to fight those demons.
Chris Farley

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I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
William Morris

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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
Men Caution Thinking Wisdom
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Wars
Donald Trump

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I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
Education
Andrew Cuomo

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I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.
Life
Carrie Fisher

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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
Time
Ulysses S. Grant

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The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
Community
Dorothy Day

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Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
Men Peace Commitment Proverbs
John Greenleaf Whittier

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I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.
Pope Francis

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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
Love Wars
James Baldwin

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In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
Necessity Attitude Opinion Peace
Saint Thomas Aquinas

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Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
Victory Wars
Sun Tzu

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We are muddled into war.
Assumptions Opinion Perception Confusion
David Lloyd George

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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society...shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Greatness Society Wars
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.
Life Love People
Chris Hemsworth

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I don't ever try to sound like, 'it's a piece of cake. Be chaste 'til your married.' But you strive and battle. It's a battle.
Philip Rivers

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Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.
Reality Suffering Women
Mandy Moore

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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.
Sun Tzu

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How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.
Sacrifice
Alexander the Great

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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
Courage History
William Butler Yeats

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In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
Talent Cleverness
Wilson Mizner

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It's a constant battle for everybody, but you need to be happy with yourself.
Gina Carano

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In the heat of the battle, it's always different than when you go back and look at it on film.
Colin Kaepernick

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Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.
Culture Freedom
Jon Stewart

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I love arguing. I always say that I'll never win a physical battle, but I can always win a mental battle. I mean, not really, because I never really argue with anyone.
Love
Shailene Woodley

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That the caste system must be abolished if the Hindu society is to be reconstructed on the basis of equality, goes without saying. Untouchability has its roots in the caste system. They cannot expect the Brahmins to rise in revolt against the caste system. Also we cannot rely upon the non-Brahmins and ask them to fight our battle.
Society Equality
B. R. Ambedkar

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I have fought my own battle with depression, and it was important for me to bring a little awareness about it for others.
Depression
Deepika Padukone

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As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.
Sweet Victory
Bob Marley

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I never was the battle rapper. That was never my thing. I always felt like it's enough room for everybody to do their thing. I like bringing new energy, re-inventing the wheel, so to speak, every time I come out.
Time
Nelly

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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.
Greatness Reflection Growth
Frederick Douglass

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

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I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.
Life Struggles Education
Emma Watson

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I've definitely become more aware and conscious of what directors I'm working with because it's so important. The director is really more than half the battle of the film. You really rely on that. That's become really, really important to me, for sure.
Kate Mara

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We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
Bible Faith
John D. Rockefeller

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I don't like karaoke. But maybe that's why I'm so perfect for 'Lip Sync Battle,' because I get to still hear the song I love and watch the performances that I love without having to hear someone sing.
Love
Chrissy Teigen

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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.
Harry S. Truman

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I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.
Music
Neil Young

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I had to battle the doubts and fears for a while, but I committed to making sure that my strongest emotion was self-belief. Once I did that, I knew I would be OK.
Emotions
Victoria Azarenka

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If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.
People
Andrew Cuomo

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The Right has such antiquated ideas - if they took charge, I think they'd want to close the parks, open the land up for development. It's an ongoing battle to keep the parks strong.
Ideas
Robert Redford

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As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
Justice
John Stuart Mill

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Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.
Acting
Charlie Sheen

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The nature of the final Brexit deal really matters. It is, as I have said before, the battle of our times.
Nature Brexit
Keir Starmer

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My family is all from the Southwest. My great-great-grandfather was at the Battle of San Jacinto with Sam Houston.
Family
Sam Elliott

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Freedom
Alice Walker

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To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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As a Donald Trump supporter, the battle to elevate the will of the people above that of the establishment is one with which I empathize.
People
Kayleigh McEnany

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There's an internal battle. I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids and the kids win.
Work Home
Jennifer Garner

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Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.
Money Power
Martin Scorsese

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There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
Blood Worth Glory
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
Life Chance
Alexis de Tocqueville

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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.
History Intelligence
Rudy Giuliani

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The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
Equality Women
Margaret Thatcher

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If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
Andrew Jackson

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I had a lot of racism growing up where I grew up. Bullied at school. It definitely encouraged me. It's like battle wounds - you come out the other side, and it just makes you tougher.
Racism
Lewis Hamilton

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Pessimism never won any battle.
Pessimism
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.
World
Zoe Saldana

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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.
Women
Eleanor Roosevelt

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The U.S. never lost a battle against North Vietnam, but it lost the war.
Wars
John McCain

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This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.
America World
Tony Blair

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The tone of political assessment has changed. And honestly, the battle for the hearts and minds of the American people has taken on a bit more of a violent and narrow approach.
People
Kelsey Grammer

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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
Respect
Samuel Johnson

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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
Life Marriage
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Hillary had never run for office before, but she decided to give it a try. She began her campaign the way she always does new things, by listening and and learning. And after a tough battle, New York elected her to the seat once held by another outsider, Robert Kennedy.
Learning
Bill Clinton

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My secret pleasure is painting these little mini figures that you send into battle - they're called Warhammer figures. It's the nerdiest thing in the world, but it's a lot of fun. It's relaxing; that's the main reason I do it.
World
Cole Sprouse

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I think, in many people's minds, the Confederate battle flag is not only a memorial to our ancestors, which is perfectly OK, but also a symbol of white superiority and an inclination for people to believe that even slavery would've been OK.
People Slavery
Jimmy Carter

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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
Fall
Mahatma Gandhi

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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Mind
Napolean Hill

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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.
Soul
George Bernard Shaw

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On a daily basis, I have to fight the internal battle to keep my priorities straight.
Nick Foles

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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 M. Nixon

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I have to say, it was fun doing this 'Love Letter' album because, hey, man, love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forevermore, it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.
Love
R. Kelly

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The battle of getting better is never ending.
Antonio Brown

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I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting.
Life
Michael J. Fox

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I think right now it's a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.
Right Winning
Steve Jobs

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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.
America Fighting Fighting
John F. Kennedy

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I get recognized more for my 'Lip Sync Battle' than I do for being Spider-Man.
Tom Holland

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I'm a small-time white kid trying to represent hip-hop. If a hip-hop artist comes up and beats me in a battle, who did they beat? A small-town white kid who ain't never been an MC, who ain't never done nothing. Now if an MC comes to battle and they get beat by a small-town white boy, that's MC suicide.
Nothing
John Cena

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I think that genetically we're programmed to battle each other.
Pierce Brosnan

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On 'don't ask, don't tell' I was always the same. I said we needed a complete review of the impact on morale and battle effectiveness of 'don't ask, don't tell' before we repeal it. That's my position now. Now they're trying to ram through a repeal without a - any kind of really realistic survey done.
Trying
John McCain

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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.
Politics Law
Ted Cruz

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I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.
Pain Aggravation
Barack Obama

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