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Battles Quotes

Fought with the same spirit, won or lost.

These quotes honor the people behind any battle won, crediting soldiers over commanders, and reflect on duty carried out under difficult command. For related themes of resolve, see Fight.

I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.

Quotes by Action Bronson

The evolvement of proteolysis as a centrally important regulatory mechanism is a remarkable example for the development of a novel biological concept and the accompanying battles to change paradigms.

Quotes by Aaron Ciechanover

I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views...

Quotes by Ziad Doueiri

My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.

Quotes by Zachary Taylor

Day Quotes

I worked for the troops my entire time in the United States Armed Forces because we know in the United States Armed Forces that it's not the generals and the colonels that win battles, it's the soldiers: it's the people...

Quotes by Wesley Clark

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

Battles are won in the hearts of men.

Quotes by Vince Lombardi

I had pictured journalism as I'd seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and is triumphant. There are journalists who fit that ideal.

Quotes by Tom Rachman

Most people have been touched by the battles of mental illness in some way or another. It's either going on in their families or next door to them, or they know people who have experienced it.

Quotes by Tom Kitt

Fight Quotes

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

Quotes by Tiffany Thornton

The number-one defender of the Second Amendment rights is the National Rifle Association. The NRA works tirelessly to elect pro-Second Amendment candidates, and it fights fearlessly to win tough public policy battles and preserve those rights.

Quotes by Thom Tillis

When I was young, I read everything I could lay my hands on, but the Scots in my storybooks spent their time fighting glorious battles, rowing across lochs, or escaping over moors of purple heather. Even those Scots were hard...

Quotes by Theresa Breslin

Every single person suffers; every marriage has some major battles. Life pulls you in different directions. But if you try, and you're lucky, you can find your way back to each other.

Quotes by Taya Kyle

If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war.

Quotes by Suzanne Collins

History Quotes

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

Sun Tzu

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

Sun Tzu

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.

Sun Tzu

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

Sun Tzu

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.

Sun Tzu

Know Quotes

So many people get involved with carrying grudges and having these moral battles with people, where they cast themselves as the righteous and the other guy is the dirtbag. They waste tons of energy on it, create all kinds of...

Quotes by Stephen J. Cannell

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this Battles quotes collection about?
This collection reflects on battles from military, historical, and personal service perspectives - crediting soldiers rather than generals for winning battles in the U.S. Armed Forces, personal recollections of living through conflict, a sense of duty to army and republic during wartime, and a broader reflection on falling in the same spirit battles are won.
Why do people search for battles quotes?
Battles quotes appeal to readers interested in military history, duty, and resilience - both the literal experience of conflict and the metaphor of battling through hard circumstances. Related themes appear in our Fight and History quotes.
What does the quote about soldiers winning battles mean?
It credits ordinary soldiers, not generals and colonels, with actually winning battles - a statement made in reference to time spent working for troops in the United States Armed Forces, honoring frontline service over top-down command.
Does this collection reference real historical conflicts?
Yes - one quote recalls personally living through multiple periods of conflict, including events in 1973, the 1982 Israeli invasion, and the 2006 conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, before later emigrating to the United States in 1983. These are described as the speaker's own lived history, presented factually and without taking any side.
What does the quote about losing battles "in the same spirit" mean?
It argues that it's good to fall as much as it is good to win, and that battles are lost in the same spirit in which they're won - framing defeat and victory as connected by the same underlying resolve. For more on resilience, see our Life quotes.

Others come from lived experience of growing up through years of conflict, and close with the idea that losing a battle can carry the same dignity as winning one. Explore History or Day next.