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  • Great battles are won with artillery.

    War   Battle   Artillery  
  • No one can be transferred from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God without a great battle and by the good fight of faith. No one receives full light in a single day. Great faithfulness is required for us to receive more light.

  • 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
  • The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony.

  • I was worried that all the corners of the earth had been explored, all the great battles fought. The famous people on TV were athletes and actresses and singers. What did they stand for? I wondered: Had the time for heroes passed?

    Hero   Athlete   People  
    Eric Greitens (2012). “The Warrior's Heart: Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    Men   Discovery   Battle  
  • There will be great battles fought for the future of the world! The coming years will be very tough.

    Years   Battle   World  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.

    Rain   Fall   Battle  
    Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.71
  • Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

  • 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.
  • Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages or to the study of history which, for the most part, is a detailed account of things that never occurred. It is useless to fill the individual with dates of great battles, with the births and deaths of kings. They should be taught the philosophy of history, the growth of nations, of philosophies, theories, and, above all, of the sciences.

  • Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.

    Wisdom   Two   Battle  
  • If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.

    Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.
  • What I like about the third movie is you get to see a side of Carlisle you haven't seen before. You actually get to see what his vampire capabilities are because there's some great battle sequences. It's my favorite book. Carlisle is holding on to that humanity. He doesn't want to be a vampire.

    Book   Humanity   Vampire  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he wins it will be by no subterfuge or evasion of amalgamation . He will enter modern civilization here in America as a black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch, or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west.

    Fighting   Men   Winning  
    "Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880".
  • Christ's whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness — the setting forth in living act and word what man is meant to be, and how he should carry himself in this world of God — one long campaign in which the temptation stands out as the first great battle and victory.

    Men   Long   Temptation  
    Thomas Hughes (2017). “True Manliness”, p.29, Litres
  • We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.

    Girl   Daughter   Mother  
  • Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

    Death   Peace   War  
  • In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.

    Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.69, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

  • You are a fool to speak of last great battles...for the last great battle is always the next one.

    Battle   Lasts   Next  
    "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.
  • Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. by Saint Philo of Alexandria

  • 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.
  • Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.

  • There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.

    Life   Success   Home  
    Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.86
  • Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

  • For once in my career, I won't have to hold anybody's hand and they won't have to hold mine. I'm surrounded by veterans. We had a great battle last Thursday at HealthPoint. It was something I never had before - three, four, really great players all in one pickup game.

  • The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.

    Time   Knowing   Secret  
    "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. VII), 1916.
  • Know the enemy and know yourself.

    Fear   Military   War  
    The Art of War ch. 3 (translation by Yuan Shibang)
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