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“the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be...” Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.” George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“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...” Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.” George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“A battle is won by those who firmly resolve to win it!” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.” Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.” William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Man dies, but glory lives!” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“Love is a battle . . . And I plan to go on fighting. To the end.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“God's will! My liege, would you and I alone, without more help, could fight this royal battle!” William Shakespeare, Henry V

“You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Tom's army won a great victory, after a long and hard-fought battle. Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into...” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“He cursed himself and cursed the hubris which had made him so sure the battle was won and the enemy in flight.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

“Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.” George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“William now directed his archers to shoot high into the air, so that the arrows would fall behind the shield-wall, and one of these pierced Harold in the right eye, inflicting a mortal wound. He fell at the foot of the royal standard,...” Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

“I felt that 15,000 men on the 8th would be more effective than 50,000 a month later.” Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.” George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“I see it is still more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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Antony and Cleopatra (1)
War and Peace (1)
Man and Superman (1)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1)
Democracy in America (1)
The Hobbit (1)
American Gods (1)
Casino Royale (1)
Henry V (1)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1)
A Feast for Crows (1)