Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old battle quotes, battle sayings, and battle proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Where there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph.Pierre Corneille
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Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.Erwin Rommel
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.Ulysses S. Grant
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.Dwight D. Eisenhower
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.Margaret Thatcher
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.Ernest Hemingway
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.Bertrand Russell
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.Mao Zedong
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It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.Robert E. Lee
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Battle not with monsters lest you become one.Friedrich Nietzsche
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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.Thomas Carlyle
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.Napoleon Bonaparte
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Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.Arthur Wellesley
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.Martin Luther
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Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.Donald Trump
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A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.Ferdinand Foch
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.Ezra Pound
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.Douglas Macarthur
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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.Benjamin Franklin
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.Ernest Hemingway
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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.Thucydides
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War is what happens when language fails.Margaret Atwood
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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.John Greenleaf Whittier
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No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.Colin Powell
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War is a defeat for humanity.Pope John Paul II
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.Niccolo Machiavelli
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If we don't end war, war will end us.H. G. Wells
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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.Ernest Hemingway
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No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.Terry Goodkind
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.Salvador Dali
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.Thomas Mann
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The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory.Bob Marley
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A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.Jean-Paul Sartre
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No battle is worth fighting except the last one.Enoch Powell
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Anyone that goes to battle goes to battle knowing the mindset and tactics of their enemies.Brad Thor
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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.Leo Tolstoy
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Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.James Monroe
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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.Alexander Berkman
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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.George Orwell
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We make war that we may live in peace.Aristotle
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.A. J. P. Taylor
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Everyone prepares for battle in his own way.Janet Morris
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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.George Washington
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War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.Gilbert Parker
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War is fear cloaked in courage.William Westmoreland
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War is the science of destruction.John Abbott
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In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.Julius Caesar
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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.William McKinley
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No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one.Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.Harry S. Truman
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Only great and general battles can produce great resultsCarl von Clausewitz
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All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.John Wayne
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The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.Oswald Chambers
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A battle sometimes decides everything and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.Napoleon Bonaparte
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The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.Leo Buscaglia
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Battles are sometimes won by generals. Wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.F. E. Adcock
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The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.Dorothy Day
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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.Walt Whitman
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The purpose of battle is to attain the greatest heights within your own limits.Yukito Kishiro
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There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means.Chuck Smith
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It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours.Buddha
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Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge.George S. Patton
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Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own.P. C. Cast
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Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.Winston Churchill
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No battle was ever won by wholly sane men.Lynn Viehl
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Believe that you can whip the enemy, and you have won half the battle.James Ewell Brown Stuart
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The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.Stephen King
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Pick your battles, and accept yourself for who you are.Chrissie Wellington
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The manner in which one loses the battle can sometimes outshine the victory.David Millar
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.Ludwig Von Mises
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Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.Andy Andrews