Best battle & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting.”

Thinking Looks Fighting Accepting Battle

“I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Play Dream Bigs Careers Struggle Player Stage Battle Tennis Worthwhile Worth It Tournaments Doubted Tennis Player

Author:Samantha Stosur

“I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share.”

Thinking I Can Enough Fighting Winning Share Battle Pierce

Author:Roone Arledge

“I think... you know, collaboration, in general - no matter movies, television or Broadway - is offering of what you can bring to the table and also fighting what you think the important battles are. Not everything is going to make it in there. Not everything is going to work. You have to collaborate. And you have to be a good listener.”

Thinking Knows Important Matter Fighting Television Battle Tables Collaboration Offering Listeners Broadway Going To Work Good Listener

Author:Kristin Chenoweth

“It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again.”

People Thinking Wells Difficult Battle Difficulty Mere Dear Dear Friend Approximation

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Battle Horse Silly Can Not

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U.S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though I don't think that's what Obama meant.”

Thinking America Christianity Century Battle Islam Islamic Marine Pirate 19th Century Marine Corps

Author:Barack Obama

“It's unfortunate that we see a great many women settling. They think that simply because they have gotten the right to vote, own property and have gained some simple freedoms that the battle for women's suffrage is over.”

Thinking Women Simple Battle Enlightenment Vote Property Settling Great Men Unfortunate Suffrage Right To Vote Women's Suffrage

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top, For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop, And work is the province of cattle, And rest's for a clam in a shell, So I'm thinking of throwing the battle - Would you kindly direct me to hell?”

Source: Collected poems: Not so deep as a well

“I think the best article was the article about radical feminists being against transgender women. I found that the most fascinating article and I absolutely loved it. I love battles within the gay community or feminist community. I love radical theorists.”

Thinking Found Community Gay Battle Feminist Radical Fascinating Articles Transgender Theorists Gay Community Radical Feminist

Author:John Waters

“A lot of ideas took us to dead ends or we found the tone wasn’t just right. I think we discovered very quickly this wasn’t just a song to end The Battle of the Five Armies — it was a song to say goodbye to Middle-earth.”

Thinking Ideas Ends Earth Song Found Five Middle Battle Army Tone Goodbye Saying Goodbye Dead Ends Middle Earth

Author:Billy Boyd

“The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle, by all that has power of persuasion upon the human heart, concludes his exhortation by an appeal to these irresistible feelings - "Think of your forefathers and of your posterity."”

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Ends Results Battle Illusion Disagree Very Strong Reverse

Author:Jenny Hval

“I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself an artificial and undesirable condition based on Oriental influences. Our virile Teutonic ancestors did not think their wives unworthy to follow them into battle, or scorn to dream of winged Valkyries bearing them to Valhalla.”

Thinking Dream Women Wife Influence Conditions Battle Regard Traditional Fancy Ancestor Artificial Scorn Unworthy Undesirable Subordination Valhalla

Book:Selected Letters 1934-1937

Source: Selected Letters 1934-1937

“As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes; that runs into matrimony, as a horse rushes into battle; I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a sort of ladies that are to be pray'd for among the rest of distemper'd people; and to me they look like people that venture their whole estates in a lottery where there is a hundred thousand blanks to one prize.”

Source: The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt

“Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him, and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only showing him a diversity of distress and sorrow.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think 'war correspondent' smells a bit, reeks of false romanticism: it has too much of the whiff of Victorian reporters who would view battles from hilltops in the company of ladies, immune to suffering, only occasionally glancing towards the distant pop-pop of cannon fire.”

Thinking War Suffering Bits Views Company Fire Too Much Middle Battle Definitions Pops Smell East Journalism Middle East Reporters Immune Romanticism Victorian Cannons

Author:Robert Fisk

“I was shocked when they told me congratulations, you won, that's the good news. Then the bad news is that you have six battles next week. That was a bit of a shocker. I was exhausted. And I had Chopped shooting that same week. I didn't have a sous chef lined up; I thought that was bad karma to try to think ahead. So I scrambled. I scrambled the jets, took off and we bombed our target. I think it's gone well.”

Thinking Trying Wells Next Bits Gone Week Battle Six News Karma Shooting Target Chef Exhausted Shocked Good News Congratulations Jet Bad News Next Week Bad Karma

Author:Geoffrey Zakarian

“One of the greatest sins in any story is false suspense. The kind of 'suspense' that disintegrates the moment you give your reader one second to think about it. And it's an easy trap to fall into, so watch carefully for it. If your story hinges on the question, 'Will Superman be pushed so far in his battle against Lex Luthor that he'll have to kill him?', or if your big cliffhanger moment is, 'Wow, is Spider-Man really dead this time?', then I understand Food Lion is hiring.”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Kind Book Moments Stories Bigs Fall Easy Sin Watches Reader Battle Comic Suspense Lions Wow Traps Comic Book Spiders Hiring Hinges Spider Man Cliffhanger

Author:Mark Waid

“What have the masses been clamoring for? Jobs and welfare, and they got 'em. They've also got unions and managements like two armies converting the whole economy into a battleground with the customers as victims, except that the victims are also in the army. They think in battle terms by day and like customers at night.”

Thinking Two Whole Wisdom Jobs Night Politics Term Economy Battle Mass Army Management Victim Unions Customers Welfare Liberalism Ems Converting Battleground

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“I think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much- knowing that he's going to take her when she's going to go with him. Also, the movie is really focused on Achilles and Hector and their battles.”

People Thinking Knows Ideas Stories Knowing Battle Focused Achilles Hector

Author:Diane Kruger

“Deluded beings think that if they get in a battle with a Zen Master or with a Don Juan, that it's going enhance their life if they win. You can never take power from someone else any more than you can take sunlight.”

Ifs Thinking Winning Masters Buddhism Battle Sunlight Deluded Don Juan Juan Zen Master

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol that causes a great deal of division and reminds us of a really hurtful legacy and past... I think there are some Southerners, black and white, who feel as though the rest of the country looks down on the South as uneducated and backward. And for some people, that was a symbol of defiance against that.”

People Thinking Feels Looks Country Past Causes Black White Deals Battle South Symbols Legacy Division Flags Black And White Defiance Hurtful Uneducated Confederate Southerner

Author:Russell D. Moore

“I love collaboration. I love working with people to come up with something better than what I initially thought. With directing, you have to be controlling in a lot of ways, but I find myself trying to battle against that, to not be controlling, because that's when great things can come about, beyond how great you think you can be.”

People Thinking Way Trying Battle Come Up Great Things Collaboration Something Better

Author:Joe Hahn

“Recovering alcoholic guys wake up in the morning, and they have to think of a reason to get up, and then, once they're up, to not have a drink. It's like all these little heroic battles they have that they fight with and against every day of their lives.”

Thinking Littles Reason Guy Fighting Morning Drink Battle Wake Up Get Up Heroic Alcoholics Recovering Recovering Alcoholics

Author:Liam Neeson

“I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.”

Thinking Fighting Winning Rights Birth Battle Abortion Keep Going Territory Again And Again Depressing Birth Control Parity Women's Health Very Depressing

Author:Erica Jong

“Every day His servants are dying modestly and peacefully--not a word of victory on their lips; but Christ's deep triumph in their hearts--watching the slow progress of their own decay, and yet so far emancipated from personal anxiety that they are still able to think and plan for others, not knowing that they are doing any great thing. They die, and the world hears nothing of them; and yet theirs was the completest victory. They came to the battle field, the field to which they had been looking forward all their lives, and the enemy was not to be found. There was no foe to fight with.”

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“I think that the desire to be cruel and to hurt (with words because any other way might be dangerous to ourself) is part of human nature. Parties are battles (most parties), a conversation is a duel (often). Everybody's trying to hurt first, to get in the dig that will make him or her feel superior, feel triumph.”

Thinking Way Feels Trying Firsts Humans Might Desire Hurt Party Dangerous Human Nature Battle Conversation Superiors Triumph Unkindness

Book:The letters of Jean Rhys

Source: The letters of Jean Rhys

“I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint. ... When the stakes are high enough and the risks obvious, we still turn to people who can be counted on to understand those risks and prepare for worst-case scenarios. A chief of state does not want to hear a general in the field say that he 'hopes' to win tomorrow's battle or that he's 'visualizing victory'.”

Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may seem degraded to posturing patriotism and self-righteous brutality, imaginative literature continues to question what heroism is, to examine the roots of power, and to offer moral alternatives. Imagination is the instrument of ethics. There are many metaphors besides battle, many choices besides war, and most ways of doing good do not, in fact, involve killing anybody. Fanstasy is good at thinking about those other ways.”

“I don't think I'm good, I don't think I'm a good rapper. I think a lot of people always want me to battle somebody and stuff like that which is cool, but I don't see myself as a rapper.”

People Thinking Want Stuff Battle Rapper Want Me Good Rapper

Author:Donald Glover

“I think that the important thing to know is, which is great about this country [the USA], when it comes to domestic issues, we all battle it out and fight it between the parties and all those kind of things to get things done, but when it comes to foreign issues, overseas kind of things, then we all speak with one voice.”

Thinking Knows Kind Important Country Done Fighting Speak Voice Party Issues Battle Important Things Usa Things Done

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“We struggle with eating healthily, obesity, and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food.”

Thinking Way Opportunity Sides Struggle Battle Approach Eating Access Nutrition Obesity Great Opportunity Good Nutrition

Author:Marcus Samuelsson

“I think the best thing to try to do is allow your daughter or your son to know that they can come to you for anything. If you can break down that wall so they don't feel embarrassed by telling you things, that's half the battle.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Trying Half Break Son Wall Battle Daughter Best Things Embarrassed Breaking Down Our Daughter Your Daughter Your Son

Author:Channing Tatum

“I think to be successful at anything you have to put in a hell of a lot of effort. Pick your battles. I picked music, put in a lot of effort, and it's worked.”

Thinking Effort Hell Successful Battle Picks Being Successful

Author:Ed Sheeran

“Sing songs that none have sung, think thoughts that ne'er in the brain have rung, Walk in paths that none have trod, weep tears as none have shed for God, Give peace to all to whom none other gave, Claim him your own who's everywhere disclaimed. Love all with love that none have felt and Brave the battle of life with strength unchained.”

Thinking Giving Song Felt Walks Healing Brain Path Tears Battle Claims Brave Shed Battle Of Life

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“You think that commanding an army grants you nobility? Nobility comes from fighting besides your soldiers, not kidnapping a woman to cheat your way out of battle.”

Thinking Way Fighting Battle Army Soldier Grants Cheat Nobility Kidnapping

Author:Bartolomeo d'Alviano

“I think I have a good sense of humor, but I'm not, like, a joke-teller. I get the jokes, which is sometimes half the battle. Believe me, I have no idea why anyone hires me.”

Thinking Believe Ideas Sometimes Half Battle Jokes No Idea Sense Of Humor Believe In Me Good Sense Good Sense Of Humor

Author:Mila Kunis

“Physical beings want things to be the same. They want people to think the same. You work rather hard at sameness, but you will never win that battle because, from Nonphysical, diversity is known to be the most beneficial part of the game.”

People Thinking Want Hard Games Winning Change Known Battle Diversity Beneficial Sameness

Author:Esther Hicks

“I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.”

Thinking Battle Picks

Author:Action Bronson

“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

“The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is loving myself 100%. And that's still a battle. I love myself, but sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. And I think I've been my worst enemy in life, because others haven't been able to do anything to me unless I allowed them to do it.”

Thinking Stills Sometimes Able Enemy Worst Havens Battle Overcoming Obstacles Worst Enemy Love Myself I Love Myself Loving Myself Biggest Obstacles

Author:Mike Epps

“I think people are drawn to characters that break the rules. I think there is something about a good person doing bad things for what they consider to be a good reason. Then the battle is on to almost prove to the audience that it's justified. How far can you go with that? How far can that character go before people won't accept it? Trying to walk to edge of that line is a challenge.”

People Thinking Trying Persons Reason Character Challenges Lines Walks Accepting Break Audience Battle Prove Edges Bad Things Justified Good Person

Author:Steven Knight

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

Source: Hemingway on War

“I feel like I get really energetic and hyper. If I do well in a show, I can't sleep afterwards. If I don't do well, I get kinda drained. I think because it's like a battle on stage.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Wells I Can Shows Sleep Stage Battle Get Real Energetic Hyper Can't Sleep Drained I Can't Sleep

Author:Charlyne Yi

“You start to worry about what happens if you don't win. You start to fear man because you want praise from man. You start thinking about how winning will lead to more money. There are a lot of sin issues inside of that. So now when I go into competition, I have to take my thoughts captive and use God's Word to fight that battle.”

Ifs Thinking Men Want God Use Happens Fighting Winning Fear Sin Money Worry Issues Battle Praise Competition More Money My Thoughts Richness Captives

Author:David Boudia

“To be a great offensive rebounder, you have to think like a defensive rebounder and battle for position while also being in the flow of your offense. And then it's just being determined.”

Thinking Position Battle Flow Determined Just Being Offensive Offense

Author:Moses Malone

“For one cannot assume that God exists to help people who are too cowardly and too lazy to help themselves and think that God exists only to make up for the weakness of mankind. He does not exist for that purpose. He has always, at all times, blessed only those who were prepared to fight their own battles.”

People Thinking Doe Helping Purpose Fighting Atheism Mankind Battle Weakness Blessed Assuming Prepared All Time Lazy Cowardly God Exists

Book:Hitler's Words

Source: Hitler's Words

“Satan's time of tempting is usually after an ordinance; and the reason is, because then he thinks he shall find us most secure. When we have been at solemn duties, we are apt to think all is done, and we grow remiss, and leave off that zeal and strictness as before; just as a soldier, who after a battle leaves off his armour, not once dreaming, of an enemy. Satan watches his time, and when we least suspect, then he throws in a temptation.”

Thinking Has Beens Reason Done Dream Grows Prayer Enemy Watches Duty Battle Soldier Temptation Secure Satan Suspects Solemn Zeal Tempting Ordinances Armour

Book:All Things for Good

Source: All Things for Good

“Which people take the time to care for their souls, these days? I reckon not many. But...hear this: I think that maybe in our lives - in our scrabbling for food, in the washing of our bodies and warming of them, in our small daily battles - we can forget our souls. We do not tend to them, as if they matter less. But I don't think they matter less.”

People Ifs Thinking Soul Matter Body Care Forget Our Lives Battle These Days Washing

Author:Susan Fletcher

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