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  • If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle

    Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.12, Lulu.com
  • Fight all your battles on your knees and you win every time.

    Charles Stanley (2008). “Charles Stanley's Handbook for Christian Living: Biblical Answers to Life's Tough Questions”, p.544, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

    War   Long   Political  
    Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)
  • We make war that we may live in peace.

    Nicomachean Ethics bk. 10, 1177b See Vegetius 1
  • I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

    Peace   War   Hate  
    Speech in Ottawa on January 10, 1946. "Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches". Book edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels, 1948.
  • Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

    Life   War   Fighting  
    Attributed to Rommel‎'s "Infanterie Greift An" ("Infantry Attacks") (1937), in "World War II: The Definitive Visual History: from Blitzkrieg to the Atom Bomb" by Richard Holmes, p. 128, 2009.
  • To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

    Peace   War   Fighting  
    Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.11, Lulu.com
  • I don't want to play old music. To me, it is fighting battles that are already over and calling yourself a warrior. For me, I see no courage or adventure in doing the old thing over again. If others want to, that's for them. For myself, I have to move on. Life is too short to live in the past. There is a lot to be done.

    Source: www.commdiginews.com
  • Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

    Donald Trump (2016). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.165, Random House
  • Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

    Death   Peace   War  
  • In war there is no substitute for victory.

    Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY
  • Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles

    War   Fighting   Battle  
  • Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

    "The Candymakers (The Candymakers, Book 1)". Book by Wendy Mass, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2010.
  • Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

    "Why democracy will last". Margaret Thatcher's second Carlton Lecture at the Carlton Club in central London, www.margaretthatcher.org. November 26, 1984.
  • For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

    Business   War   Army  
    Sun-tzu, Gerald A. Michaelson (2001). “Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules”, p.59, Adams Media
  • If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.

    Dream   Fighting   Boxing  
    "Million Dollar Baby". www.imdb.com. 2004.
  • To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

    "A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.
  • Know the enemy and know yourself.

    Fear   Military   War  
    The Art of War ch. 3 (translation by Yuan Shibang)
  • To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

    1790 First Annual Address, 8 Jan.
  • Don’t keep fighting battles that are already lost.

  • If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

    Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

  • 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, William Kozlenko (1942). “Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time”, New York : Crown Publishers
  • The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by.

    Sex   Party   Fighting  
  • Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win.

    Girl   Fighting   Winning  
    "The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents". Book by William A. DeGregorio, 1991.
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