A Quote by Chaim Potok

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

Chaim Potok

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Battles Different Each Each Generation Fights Generation New Only People Same Thinks

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Chaim Potok
American - Author
February 17, 1929 - July 23, 2002

I'd like to think that I'm a calm and sweet person. I tend to be very playful at home with my children, but in life... we have to fight our battles - our work battles, our political battles, our personal battles - and we're focused.

Angelina Jolie

Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy, and you can get hurt no matter who you are.

Frederick Lenz

We can’t afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result. And that’s a risk we can’t take.

Barack Obama

Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.

William L. Jenkins

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

Margaret Thatcher

A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.

Frederick Lenz

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

Some people are fighting much, much more important battles and much bigger battles, and if we get the chance to put a smile on their face for ten seconds, it's so worth it.

Dolph Ziggler

We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.

Bill Scott

A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

Ben Okri

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

Terry Bradshaw

I'm worried about the world because there's chaos in the Middle East, and I think the Iranian deal [to lift sanctions] is going to continue the Shia-Sunni battles, the Persian-Arab battles.

Michael Bloomberg

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

James Joyce

There is something about military history that fascinates me. You find that many battles have been lost by people with very good military background when they fought battles in a battleground they didn't understand. I have seen that in business, too. You have to look at a marketplace like a battle-ground.