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“God gives His toughest battles to His strongest soldiers.”

“If you're losing the battle against a persistent bad habit, an addiction, or a temptation, and you're stuck in a repeating cycle of good intention-failure-guilt, you will not get better on your own. You need the help of other people. Some temptations are only overcome with the help of a partner who prays for you, encourages you, and holds you accountable.”

People Ifs Needs Helping Praying Habit Battle Losing Overcoming Guilt Intention Addiction Partners Stuck Temptation Get Better Cycles Persistent Good Intentions Bad Habits Praying For You

Author:Rick Warren

“In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.”

Spiritual Life Is Lost Prayer Battle Spiritual Life Prayer Time

Book:HOW TO PRAY

Source: HOW TO PRAY

“I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the most decisive and merciless manner and crush its resistance with such brutality that it will not forget it for decades to come. The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in executing for this reason, the better.”

“All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.”

Men Love Fighting Literature Battle Bravery Brave Affection Contests Brave Man Fruitful Life Battle Of Life

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.”

Ifs Men Firsts Real Fighting Hell He Man Hero Battle Brave Scared Every Man Liars Coward Brave Man Real Heroes

Author:George S. Patton

“I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them; I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war; But I saw they were not as was thought; They themselves were fully at rest-they suffer'd not; The living remain'd and suffer'd-the mother suffer'd, And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffer'd, And the armies that remain'd suffer'd.”

Men Children War Young Mother Suffering White Saws Wife Battle Army Soldier Young Man Veteran Corpses Comrade Skeletons Veterans Day Musings Debris Dead Soldiers

Book:Passage to India

Source: Passage to India

“You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in considerable quantity, has an intoxicating effect. I became ... drunk.”

Humans Wish Effects Battle Let Me Fats Drunk Quantity

Book:Ancient Evenings: A Novel

Source: Ancient Evenings: A Novel

“Now the line was drawn. Lucy had never thought that one of the fiercest battles of her life would be fought over a breakfast table, with quiet words carefully chosen.”

Would Be Lines Battle Quiet Tables Chosen Breakfast Lucy

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“What are the origins of dressage? Did just, one day, some young horse say to his dad, 'Dad, I don't want to charge into battle...I just wanna dance'?”

Want Young Dad Battle One Day Horse Just One Dressage

Author:Stephen Colbert

“It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in battle and to honour him as a man according to his courage.”

Men War Feelings Enemy Battle Ideals Hatred Treats Honour

Author:Ernst Junger

“I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.”

Believe I Believe Moral Bears Battle Soldier Staying Moral Courage Physical Courage

Book:President Wilson's Addresses

Source: President Wilson's Addresses

“As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his own childhood, our father, and the father we want to be. We must meet our childhood father at close range: get to know him, learn to forgive him, and somehow, go beyond him.”

Knows Want Trying Children Father Struggle Childhood Style Identity Battle Our Children Victim Forgiving Loyalty Range Fierce Our Father Learn To Forgive Parenting Styles

Author:Augustus Napier

“In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.”

Art Lines Ability Fire Particular Battle Mass Heavy Concentrating Artillery Siege

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Winning Pay Battle Accounts Bank Accounts

Author:Walter Cronkite

“The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.”

Real Hero Battle Died Buddy Firefighter Real Heroes

Author:Ira Hayes

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

Firsts War Differences Battle First Time Preparing Veteran War Veteran

Book:Tricked: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Four

Source: Tricked: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Four

“But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.”

Knows Giving Humans Doe Force Human Nature Battle Giving Up Devil Defeat Subtle Worms Not Giving Up

Book:The Profits of Religion

Source: The Profits of Religion

“I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between them in the hour of battle and of death.”

Care Hours Differences Principles Battle Soldier Making A Difference Despise I Care Descent

Author:Thaddeus Stevens

“Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.”

People Bits Half Like You Battle Jokes

Author:Don Rickles

“It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who plods on, unlettered and unknown.... In the last analysis it is this courage, developing between man and his limitations, that brings success.”

Men Real Lasts Battle Tasks Workers Developing Limitation Analysis Courageous Applause Co Worker Real Courage

Author:Alice Foote MacDougall

“If his decision is correct, he will win the battle, even if it lasts longer than expected. If his decision is wrong, he will be defeated and he will have to start all over again-only this time with more wisdom. But once he has started, a warrior of the light perseveres until the end.”

Ifs Ends Light Lasts Winning Decision Battle Perseverance Expected Warrior Defeated Encouraging Persevere Warrior Of The Light

Author:Paulo Coelho

“He was a Baptist minister who prayed through his six-shooter which he claimed was the most efficacious form of prayer, especially in dealing with Yankees...he would go into battle singing the songs of David.”

War Form Song Prayer Battle Six Singing Ministers Yankees Baptists Shooter

Author:John S. Mosby

“The time will come, when thou shalt lift thine eyes To watch a long-drawn battle in the skies. While aged peasants, too amazed for words, Stare at the flying fleets of wondrous birds.”

Long Eye Watches Sky Battle Bird Flying Lifts Staring Aviation Amazed Peasants Wondrous Airpower

Author:Thomas Gray

“When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate?”

Persons Belief Causes Religious Subjects Policy Battle Devil Evidence Deny Debate Discussion Religious Belief Public Policy

Author:Lawrence M. Krauss

“I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight than decorum. It took so little to prove that human life and property are devastatingly temporary. All she had to do was lie down for a prince. They burned the city to the ground.”

Men Humans Littles Remember Lying Passion Cities Greater Century Battle Prove Daughter Weight Property Human Life Temporary Burned Decorum

Author:Brenna Yovanoff

“As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards.”

People Want Believe Reason Moments Stories Actors Battle Admire Hopefully Reason Why Demon Gratification Telling Stories Make Believe

Author:Eric Balfour

“Much of our trading comes down to a battle between our patience and our impulses.”

Battle Impulse Trading

Author:Steve Burns

“I think it's one of the most important battles for consumers to fight: the right to know what's in their food, and how it was grown.”

Thinking Knows Important Fighting Battle Consumers

Author:Joel Salatin

“I believe a family can be like that sports team. A successful family wins as a team. But if its members are intent upon winning their own individual battles with one another, the team loses. A winning solution is to work out the differences and, when it's over, let it be over. Then they can get back in the game as a team.”

Ifs Believe Games Winning Individual I Believe Sports Loses Differences Successful Team Battle Members Solutions Work Out Get Back Sports Team Power Struggle Back In The Game

Author:Steve Goodier

“Adult movies with any artistic credit are released in the last quarter of the year and expected to gird for battle for Globes and Oscars. So the films aren't being seen just for themselves, but rather in a competitive context.”

Years Lasts Film Battle Adults Credit Expected Artistic Quarters Globes Oscars

Author:Alexander Payne

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

Hair Baby Fine Battle

Author:Emma Stone

“I wouldn't want to promote teenage girls having sex. But the reality is, it's happening, and they're just a little too young to understand how careful they need to be. That's a big battle with me, because I'm 23, and a lot of my fans are eight years younger than I am, so there's a bit of a tug-of-war there. I want to set the right example and, at the same time, live my life.”

Want Needs Years Littles War Bigs Reality Young Girl Sex Bits Fans Example Battle Happenings Careful Eight Teenage Living My Life Having Sex Teenage Girl Tug Of War

Author:Rihanna

“If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle.”

Ifs Film Fighting Battle Casts Uphill Battles

Author:Clint Eastwood

“It's hard being a white rapper sometimes! When that happens you just need to battle through.”

Needs Sometimes Hard Happens White Battle Rapper

Author:Yelawolf

“If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to you, if you can have a laugh about it, and don't take yourself so serious, you have the battles halfway won.”

Ifs Matter Happens Laughing Havens Serious Battle Hundred Harder Sense Of Humor Halfway Have A Laugh

Author:Jack Bruce

“I pick my feature film battles very carefully. They're going to be personal and they're going to take a lot of my energy. I'm not going to be some big production company and be Jerry Bruckheimer or something like that. It doesn't interest me.”

Bigs Film Energy Interest Company Battle Picks Productions Features Jerry

Author:James Cameron

“There's always going to be space for battle in hip hop. For competition. It's just an inseparable part of the game.”

Games Space Battle Competition Hip Hop Hips Hops Inseparable

Author:Nas

“When you deal with somebody in the heat of battle, you see the best or the worst of them. So when you get through all that there is a great deal of respect.”

Deals Worst Battle Heat

Author:Andre Agassi

“I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.”

Years Son Battle Drug My Son

Author:Anthony Kiedis

“We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.”

People Way Seems Used Black Forget Leader Creativity Battle Black People Denied Literacy Illiteracy Conveying

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.”

Believe Language I Believe Battle Offers Capacity India I Believe In Rulers English Language Englishmen

Book:Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)

Source: Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)

“A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.”

Knows Evil Battle Mouths Leaving Warrior Nonviolence Evil Thoughts

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.”

Humanity Battle Ambition Regeneration Untouchability

Book:Caste Must Go and the Sin of Untouchability

Source: Caste Must Go and the Sin of Untouchability

“A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.”

Faces Fighting Enemy Knowing Five Sacrifice Battle Equal Bravery Brave Ninety

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.”

Freedom Battle Heavy

Book:Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi

“God allows us to dace difficulties so that our faith will be stretched and refined. The trials we face provide an excellent opportunity for us to declare our dependence on God and not on ourselves. The way we win the battle with discouragement is by humbling ourselves before God and telling Him that we need Him. There is only one way to do this, and it is through prayer.”

Way Needs Faces Faith Opportunity Winning Religious Prayer Battle Difficulty Trials One Way Excellent Dependence Refined Discouragement Humbling Dependence On God

Author:Charles Stanley

“The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way.”

Way Wisdom Fun Grows Easy Path Sweet Battle Harder Aging Thick Curmudgeon

Author:James Hillman

“Know that there is nothing you can't aspire to do. Take offense. Bide your time. Pick your battles. Take revenge when you can - and never pull the ladder up after you.”

Knows Battle Picks Revenge Offense Aspire Ladders

Author:Linda Hirshman

“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.”

Has Beens Important Fighting Parent My Own Lessons Battle Grateful I've Learned Stumbling Important Lessons

Author:Anna Quindlen

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