Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.
Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.
One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
The Bible refers to the Word as 'the sword of the Spirit.' What battles are you not winning if you are not equipped with your sword?
Choose battles that you can win without losing your heart and your soul.
Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles.
The truth has to be unveiled. If the West insists, if it keeps pushing, the battles have to be fought. And they will be fought.
I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.
Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.
When it comes to creativity, or my artistry, when it comes to how I wear my hair and what I'm dressing like, some things I'm going to fight for; and it's really about picking the battles, but usually I'm not backing down.
Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.
Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude.
They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.
Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.
Only great and general battles can produce great results
Everything went perfectly on 'In Bruges.' It was constant warfare, but I won all the battles and was really happy working with the actors and everything on the film.
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.
It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation.
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.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles, its flamings out of the uncivilized heart.
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.
There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time.
Faith, prayer, and the Word of God are the weapons God provides you with to fight spiritual battles.
I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
I learned to choose my battles. Sometimes I let my producer deal with something that I didn't want to deal with.
My goal is to show girls that I'm fighting so they don't have to, so they don't have to fight the same battles, so they don't have to fight for wage equality or whatever it may be.
I'm a big fan of historical fiction stuff. Historical battles - 'Gladiators,' 'The Patriot.'
Do remember to pick your battles when you start parenting your stepchildren.
I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.
God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers.
God gives His toughest battles to His strongest soldiers.
Throughout history, the Poles have defended Europe. They would fight, and - between battles - they would eat and drink.
The best thing about the battle between the sexes is often the sex between the battles.
There will be great battles fought for the future of the world! The coming years will be very tough.
I've seen Joe take on many battles, cancer being one of them, and the determination that he has, and he won't stop, he's not going to make one announcement and write one editorial and go away.
Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.
Life's battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.
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.
Battles over water in the West are always about something more. At their most elemental, they are about survival.
The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted by players who don't know what they are doing.
I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work.
Fight all your battles on your knees and you win every time.
We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles.
Scheduling flexibility is the single greatest non-financial tool -- and the number-one dream-job factor -- at your disposal for winning battles in the talent wars. Use it.
I am on an emotional roller coaster ride to survive and to conquer obesity, not only for myself but also for everyone that battles some kind of addiction.
Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.
Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.
I don’t want friends to die...or fade away. I don’t want battles where we have to lose in order to win.
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.
Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.
I've often felt that it was important to have an MMA media association, not so much to fight battles and things of that nature but also to teach a lot of the younger journalists.
I think I'm aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles.
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
A warrior of light knows that certain impossible battles are worth fighting and so he/she is not afraid of being disappointed, knowing the power of his/her love.
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