Top 1200 Epic Battle Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

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

The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one's life.

The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.

We welcome the opposition of the world, because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa's battle-cry is not yet heard.

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

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

Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.

If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.

There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.

The most difficult battle you ever fight is the battle to be unique in a world that will marshal its every force to keep you the same.

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

The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.

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

My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.

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

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.

The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one battle to fight-the battle of the heart.

A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force of logic; for the sharp spear, the blazing gleam of truth; for the rapier, the quick and flashing knife of wit.

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.

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

I think what we have going in the Casino Battle Royale is going to show people an exciting, different take on the traditional battle royal format, different than what anybody has done. It's not going to be two hours of battle royals. It's going to be really, really action-packed.

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

In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.

This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

Life remains the same for me. It's always been a battle against injustice and corruption. That battle goes on.

I think the working men and women are getting hammered right now. They want someone they can trust to stand with them. And part of the reason so many conservatives are uniting behind our campaign is, I'm the only one who led the battle against amnesty, has led the battle to secure the borders, has led the battle for the working men and women of this country.

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.

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.

For me, the making of a documentary to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain was an intensely personal journey. I was born in February 1940, so I was just six months old as the battle raged overhead.

Evolution is the most important battle that Christians have to fight today, a battle we must win by any means, fair or foul!

As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time.

Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.

I knew my body could take the battle of everyday training and take the battle of falls and bending in ways that bodies really shouldn't bend.

The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.

To bring oneself to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.

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

It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.

In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your "epicness." But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.

We are a primary target for the Iranian regime... We won't wait for the battle to be in Saudi Arabia. Instead, we'll work so that the battle is for them in Iran.

Browns seek knowledge, Blues meddle in causes, and Whites consider the questions of truth with implacable logic. We all do some of it all, of course. But to be Green means to stand ready. In the Trolloc Wars, we were often called the Battle Ajah. All Aes Sedai helped where and when they could, but the Green Ajah alone was always with the armies, in almost every battle. We were the counter to the dreadlords. The Battle Ajah. And now we stand ready, for the Trollocs to come south again, for Tarmon Gai'don. the Last Battle. We will be there. That is what it means to be Green. -Alanna

My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

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

The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand. Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat: how much more no calculation at all! It is by attention to this point that I can foresee who is likely to win or lose.

The best battle is the battle that is never fought. The best war is the war that is won without a battle.

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

I don't ever try to sound like, 'it's a piece of cake. Be chaste 'til your married.' But you strive and battle. It's a battle.

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

The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief

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

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.

I disagree very strongly with people saying "that battle is over." If you've started a battle, I don't think it ever ends. The illusion that it's ended can reverse any good results that have come from it.