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If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour – the outcome of the campaign, and one day – the fate of the country.

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.

The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself – the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us – that’s where it’s at.

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life – to learn something is a joy to me.

Know thy enemy and know thy self and you will win a hundred battles.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

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.

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.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle.

The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; It was fought by the mothers of men.

You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

The season of love is that of battle. The roots of these fights run deep.

Before comparing yourself with others, win the battle with yourself. Strive to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow than today.

Angels and demons were identical–interchangeable archetypes–all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer.

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

War’s tragedy is that it uses man’s best to do man’s worst.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.

Our attainments [in space] are a major element in the competition between the Soviet system and our own . . . . in this sense, [they] are part of the battle along the fluid front of the cold war.

It is in the field of prayer that life’s critical battles are lost or won…In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there.

Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has universal value. Violence transcends the quirks of philosophy, religion, technology, and culture. () It’s time to quit worrying and learn to love the battle axe. History teaches us that if we don’t, someone else will.

Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!

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.

Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or the other is necessary.I mean, for example: it is necessary for there to be or not to be a sea-battle tomorrow; but it is not necessary for a sea-battle to take place tomorrow, or for one not to take place–though it is necessary for one to take place or not to take place.

Being politicians, they all got to sharing their personal stories. Obama talked about his mother’s battle with cancer. Harry Reid talked about a kid with a cleft palate. And John McCain told how he once carried a brain dead woman through an entire campaign.

If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and … if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse… I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being’s right to exist.