Battle Quotes - Page 9

• Still more pathetic is the total collapse of moral fanaticism. Fanatics think that their single-minded principles qualify them to do battle with the powers of evil; but like a bull they rush at the red cloak instead of the person who is holding it; he exhausts himself and is beaten. He gets entangled in non-essentials and falls into the trap set by cleverer people.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Fall, Thinking, People

  "Letters and Papers from Prison (Who Stands Fast?)". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (p. 4), 1967.

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• It is still the arena of those who dream of the City of Man and those who envision a City of Things. The battle appears to be forever joined. The armies, ignorant and enlightened, clash by day as well as night. Chicago is America's dream, writ large. And flamboyantly.

  Studs Terkel

  Dream, Army, Night

  Studs Terkel (2012). “Studs Terkel's Chicago”, p.12, New Press, The

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• Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.

  Ernie Pyle

  Soldier

  Ernie Pyle (2004). “Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe”, p.196, U of Nebraska Press

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• A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them to carry the burden of life, to work for others, and to put their shoulders to the wheel of social life, is a coward who hides himself when the battle is on, and goes to sleep drunk on an opiate.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Brother, Sleep, Burdens Of Life

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• One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.

  Samuel Adams

  Long, Independence, Argument

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• Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Powerful, Passion, Men

  "On War (Book 1)". Book by Carl von Clausewitz, 1832.

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• Introspection can easily become the tool of Satan, who is called the accuser. One of his chief weapons is discouragement. He knows that if he can make us discouraged and dispirited we will not fight the battle for holiness.

  Jerry Bridges

  Fighting, Tools, Holiness

  Jerry Bridges (1996). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• I think I'm aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles.

  Barry Zito

  Fighting, Thinking, Guy

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• Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it before battle.

  Troy Polamalu

  Warrior, Hair, Names

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• There's gonna be good times and bad times. When the good times come you got to ride it as long as you can. And when the bad times come you got to battle and try to get out of there as soon as you can.

  Carlos Delgado

  Long, Trying, Good Times

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• It's all a learning process. You've got to learn from experience, the battles you go through. Some guys continue to grow. Hopefully, that's what I'll continue do.

  Paul Pierce

  Guy, Process, Learning Experience

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• The dust cannot fight against the wind; the wind cannot fight against the mountain. Everything and everyone has a battle to lose!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fighting, Dust, Wind

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• With a good heart, you can win many battles!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Heart, Winning, You Can Win

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• You can't win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Winning, Triumph, Defeat

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• The best thing about the battle between the sexes is often the sex between the battles.

  Mardy Grothe

  Sex, Best Things

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• You know we don't have to wait until the end of the night, just to say that something's wrong and maybe nobody's right. We're all victims in a battle, that we never had to fight. It's okay. It's alright. Steady now, we're in this thing together.

  Brandon Heath

  Fighting, Night, Waiting

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• The sportive, knightly battle awakens the best human characteristics. It doesn't separate, but unites the combatants in understanding and respect. He also helps to connect the countries in the spirit of peace. That's why the Olympic Flame should never die.

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Flames, Understanding

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• There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me.

  Ethel Waters

  Spunk, Cry, Crisis

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• The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Ideas, Youth, Aging

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• As we move toward the millennium, the year 2000, the most powerful nations are not those that have nuclear bombs, but those that control the media. That's where the battle is being fought; that is how you control people's minds.

  Spike Lee

  Powerful, Moving, Media

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• Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we wage to release the creative energies within ourselves and in the world.

  Dorothy Norman

  Hero, Creative, Energy

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• We don't take on battles so small we know we can win, we take on battles so big we dare to dream of winning them.

  Sarah Burton

  Dream, Winning, Bigs

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• One goes on writing partly because it is the only available way of earning a living. It is a hard way and highly competitive. My heart drops into my bowels when I enter a bookshop and see how fierce the competition is...There is also a privier reason for pushing on, and that is the hopeless hope that someday that intractable enemy language will yield to the struggle to control it... Mastery never comes, and one serves a lifelong apprenticeship. The writer cannot retire from the battle; he dies fighting.

  Anthony Burgess

  Struggle, Writing, Heart

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• This is no longer a battle of devices, it is a war of ecosystems.

  Stephen Elop

  War, Ecosystems, Devices

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• Each generation thinks it fights new battles. But the battles are the same. Only the people are different.

  Chaim Potok

  Fighting, Thinking, People

  Chaim Potok (2012). “The Promise”, p.241, Anchor

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