Quotes of: Battling Keyword

A warrior dies in battle; a mountain climber on the rocks, but a farmer dies of old age.

New Zealander

Here’s a hand to the boy who has courage To do what he knows to be right; When he falls in the way of temptation, He has a hard battle to fight. Who strives against self and his comrade Will find a most powerful foe. All honor to him if he conquers...

Phoebe Cary

Careful how you judge others. At some point you have been, or will be, all of them.

DIRTY WHITE BOY: One Addict's Lifelong Battle Against Heroin Addiction

Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... ...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.

Fox in Socks

You have never tasted freedom, friend," Dienekes spoke, "or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.

Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

Are you guys busy?" Juniper asked. "Well," I said, "we're in the middle of this game against a bunch of monsters and we're trying not to die." "We're not busy," Annabeth said.

The Battle of the Labyrinth

Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems.

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all.

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

12--Lose Battles, But Win The War: Grand Strategy Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.

The 33 Strategies of War

Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothing to do, no one but me, and that's all I need. I'm perfectly lonely.

John Mayer - Battle Studies

Before you accomplish your dreams physically, your inner make up, mindset, emotions and perception have fought the battle mentally and that already determined how the battle will be fought physically.

Shaping the dream

A woman of battle cannot take the same risks as a woman of the fields or a woman of the town. One may not strap a baby basket to one’s back along with one’s swords and ride off to battle." -- Renda of Brannagh,

Sword of Hemlock

World War II ended in a battle for a single buildng, Germany's Reichstag...7,000 German troops defending the building...Nearly 5,000 men died in a battle for the building.

The Candy Bombers

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.

Sandra Day O'Connor

It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per batt...

Steven Pinker

I've done a number of things in the spirit of employee motivation. I tend to be a storyteller and a student of history. I often tell stories of great battles, like the battle of Thermopylae, to inspire teams who face what appear to be insurmountable ...

Brad D. Smith

[Thorin attempts to throw Bilbo from Erebor's roughly rebuild ramparts] Gandalf: If you don't like my burglar, then please, don't damage him! Return him to me!

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Gandalf: You are a very fine fellow, Mr Baggins, and I am very fond of you. But you are really just a little fellow, in a wide world.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies