Marignano Battle Quotes

Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin. ~ John Ortberg

He rarely knows the result of a battle when the battle is over. ~ Paulo Coelho

Sometimes, if your opponent is determined to win the battle, let him win the wrong battle. ~ Clifford Cohen

The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence. ~ Georgia Harkness

If there is no way out and confrontation and battle is inevitable, one can use power and strategy, balance and wisdom and enlightenment to win, of course. But the best battle is the battle that is never fought. ~ Frederick Lenz

Choosing battle is one thing, and quitting battle is cowardice and I can't imagine doing that ~ Rohit Gore

At its core, every battle worth fighting is a spiritual battle. Those men were able to succeed only because they humbled themselves and entrusted the battle to God. But ~ Eric Metaxas

My hair is a battle. It's an uphill, fine, baby-haired battle. ~ Emma Stone

A battle for power is a battle for survival, and in such a battle there are no rules of conduct. Power will use whatever means are available to it with which to challenge the warrior. ~ Théun Mares

It's a mental battle trying to come back from injuries and I don't feel like having that mental battle with myself. ~ Maurice Greene

The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primarily a battle of information. ~ Ahmed Chalabi

Anyone that goes to battle goes to battle knowing the mindset and tactics of their enemies. ~ Brad Thor

I feel like each possession is a battle and you never want to lose a battle. ~ Draymond Green

Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity. ~ Abdoulaye Wade

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost. ~ Ferdinand Foch

And so the great battle begins in earnest: the battle for your heart, the battle to find a life worth living, the battle not to lose heart as you find a life worth living. ~ John Eldredge

The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong. ~ John Muir

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side ~ E.F. Schumacher

In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace. ~ Feisal Abdul Rauf

We need to put ourselves in the shoes of our customers. That is my new battle cry. Live and breathe Starbucks the way our customers do. ~ Howard Schultz

Just when you think life is a bitch, it has puppies. ~ Lois Battle

The inward battle
against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past
is more terrible than outward battle. ~ Sivananda

If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point. ~ Lillian Hellman

Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person. ~ Mark Twain

Matthew had won this battle - a battle in a war marked no more by yards on an open field, but by scars unseen. ~ Steve V. Cypert

Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these. ~ Thomas Carlyle

Though you might conquer in battle
A thousand times a thousand men,
You're the greatest battle-winner
If you conquer just one - yourself. ~ Anonymous

The strongest yet the biggest battle is to fight from yourself, for yourself. No one can even imagine the battle one goes through every day. So be strong, be courageous as You are Amazing! And the greatest warrior ~ Meeran W. Malik

School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle. ~ Karl G. Maeser

The battle cry sort of gave you away. Try not to yell next time. ~ Richelle Mead

Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise. ~ David Bowie

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained. ~ Duke Of Wellington

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition. ~ Jerry A. Coyne

Contentment is not escape from the battle, but rather an abiding peace and confidence in the midst of the battle. ~ Warren W. Wiersbe

My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can loose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality. ~ B.R. Ambedkar

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole. ~ Bernard Law Montgomery

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. ~ Demi Lovato

War consisteth not in battle only,or the act of fighting;but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known ~ Thomas Hobbes

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

For watching death, and above all, after death; not death in battle, but death after battle, brings one to certain indifferences that are also a form of death. ~ Mary Butts

I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role. ~ Tab Hunter

What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians? ~ Albert Einstein

Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle. ~ Ovid

Lose this battle so we can win the war. ~ Olivia

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man. ~ Oscar Wilde

A bold onset is half the battle. ~ Giuseppe Garibaldi

Who gets to choose what battle takes her down? ~ Marilyn Hacker

The only thing worse than a battle lost is a battle won. ~ Anonymous

MAN THE BATTLE STATIONS! Someone's coming who wants to reason with us. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations. ~ Sun Tzu

What is a lost battle?... It is a battle one believes one has lost. ... ~ Isaiah Berlin

There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in. ~ Tori Amos

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. ~ Philo Of Alexandria

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. ~ Horace

Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits. ~ Thomas Jefferson

The battle belongs to the Lord, and we already know that He wins the war. ~ Jared Brock

I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together. ~ Sam Taylor-Wood

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. ~ Arthur Wellesley

The battle of the sexes will never be won as long as we keep sleeping with the enemy. ~ Emo Philips

All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause. ~ Martin Luther

The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it. ~ Walter Cronkite

Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own. ~ P.C. Cast

Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days. ~ Shelby Foote

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

In whatever battle we're facing, we too often lose hope. And once we've lost hope we've not only lost the battle, we've lost everything else as well. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

After the Battle of Waterloo, Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington - who managed to defeat Napoleon by the skin of his teeth - surveyed the blood-soaked cornfields of Belgium and wrote in a letter, "Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won. ~ Chris Pourteau

There has always been a battle between good and evil. ~ Billy Ray Cyrus

The legends say, that Ares takes the form of his warriors and he visits their wives while they're away at battle. ~ Gabrielle

After the battle the king can do what he likes with my head, but during the battle will he please allow me to use it? [During the battle of Zorndorf in 1758 goaded by interference of Frederick the Great of Prussia] ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Von Seydlitz

A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it. ~ Leo Tolstoy

U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor. ~ Edward Teller

And one battle looks much like another when you survey the corpses after. ~ William Napier

To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead ~ Miyamoto Musashi

The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won. ~ Simon Schama

Every marriage is a battle between two families struggling to reproduce themselves. ~ Carl Whitaker

Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity. ~ Steven Pressfield

There is in guerilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle. ~ Mao Zedong

Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed. ~ Evan Esar

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

If a battle can not be won do not fight it. ~ Sun Tzu

Of course we fight. What sisters don't battle? ~ Olivia De Havilland

Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it. ~ Euripides

Never forget, the greatest battle we'll ever face is the battle within ourselves. ~ Brad Meltzer

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity. ~ Robert Genn

It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. ~ Norman Schwarzkopf

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

A man prepared has half fought the battle. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious. ~ Laozi

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all. ~ Heinrich Heine

After all, plans are one thing; then the battle happens. ~ Aleksandra Layland

The creepy thing about battle is you always feel alone. ~ Samuel Fuller

The battle, if you could call it that, lasted no more than a few seconds.
~ John Flanagan

Plan every battle as if you will inevitably retreat, but fight every battle like there is no backing down. ~ Brandon Sanderson

Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself. ~ Walter Bonatti

Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle at which the least manoeuvre is decisive and gives superiority, as one drop of water causes overflow. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Wisdom lies in recognizing the dangers that lie within us and doing battle with them daily. ~ Max Anders