We all have our own battles to fight. In order to win any battle in our life, you need persistence, patience and control of the dynamic. Inspirational battle quotes will encourage growth in life, make you wiser and broaden your perspective.
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Famous Battle Quotes
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. – Donald Trump
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win. – Mahatma Gandhi
I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. – George McGovern
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins. – Ulysses S. Grant
The toughest battle you’ll ever fight in your life is the battle within yourself. – Anonymous
You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you “chicken man”? – Rick Riordan
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nobody can hurt me without my permission. – Mahatma Gandhi
Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love. – Paulo Coelho
Don’t fight a battle if you don’t gain anything by winning. – Erwin Rommel
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. – Herbert Hoover
Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle. – Criss Jami
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. – Margaret Thatcher
“Right,” Sadie said. “And Set will just stand there calmly while I read him to death.” – Rick Riordan
If you can’t go back to your mother’s womb, you’d better learn to be a good fighter. – Anchee Min
Where there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph. – Pierre Corneille
Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. – Ezra Taft Benson
We make war that we may live in peace. – Aristotle
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. – Ernest Hemingway
The hardest battle you will ever have to fight is between who you are now and who you want to be. – Anonymous
War does not determine who is right – only who is left. – Bertrand Russell
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. – Alfred Adler
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. – Mao Zedong
War means fighting, and fighting means killing. – Nathan Bedford Forrest
Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. – George R.R. Martin
Fights begin and end with handshakes. – Cameron Conaway
A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost. – Ferdinand Foch
You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion – he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle. – Julien Smith
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. – Ezra Pound
All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. – Sheldon B. Kopp
Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved. – Martin Luther
It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it. – Robert E. Lee
The greatest battle you ever have to win is the battle within yourself. – Eli Soriano
trategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. – Sun Tzu
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. – Douglas Macarthur
There’s a moment in fighting when strength of muscle ain’t everything because enemy has already given you enough energy to gain the victory. – Toba Beta
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. – Benjamin Franklin
More often than not, a heroes most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself. – Kevin Smith
He who hesitates, meditates in a horizontal position. – Ed Parker
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives. – Ali Vincent
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. – Muhammad Ali
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive. – Ernest Hemingway
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. – Napoleon Bonaparte
A spiritual practice is a constant battle within, replacing previous negative conditioning or habituation with new positive conditioning. – Dalai Lama
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. – Margaret Thatcher
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger. – Thucydides
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. – George Orwell
No war is inevitable until it breaks out. – A. J. P. Taylor
The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself, the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us, that’s where it’s at. – Jesse Owens
Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting. – Sun Tzu
War is what happens when language fails. – Margaret Atwood
The most challenging of all resistance comes from within. The similarity with all warriors is that they’re always battling demons within themselves. It’s a constant battle, that has to be fought non-stop. – Tim Kennedy
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. – Vincent Van Gogh
You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought. – John Greenleaf Whittier
Exactly in the place where he has to fight battles with himself, there he will find his greatness. – Anonymous
Battle not with monsters lest you become one. – Friedrich Nietzsche
It is Zen practice that you gain power, balance, and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are. – Frederick Lenz
Everyone prepares for battle in his own way. – Janet Morris
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. – Thomas Carlyle
There was no such thing as a fair fight. All vulnerabilities must be exploited. – Cary Caffrey
No battle plan survives contact with the enemy. – Colin Powell
Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it. – Rasheed Ogunlaru
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. – George Washington
Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives. – Criss Jami
Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. – Mahatma Gandhi
War is a defeat for humanity. – Pope John Paul II
t’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. – Vince Lombardi
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. – Niccolo Machiavelli
Everyone has a plan until they’ve been hit. – Joe Lewis
If we don’t end war, war will end us. – H. G. Wells
Some Warriors look fierce, but are mild. Some seem timid, but are vicious. Look beyond appearances; position yourself for the advantage. – Deng Ming-Dao
