Fighting Battles Quotes

The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by.

Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win.

Don’t keep fighting battles that are already lost.

Fight all your battles on your knees and you win every time.

Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

We make war that we may live in peace.

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

Know the enemy and know yourself.

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

I don't want to play old music. To me, it is fighting battles that are already over and calling yourself a warrior. For me, I see no courage or adventure in doing the old thing over again. If others want to, that's for them. For myself, I have to move on. Life is too short to live in the past. There is a lot to be done.

Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

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

To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.