330 Quotes About Battles

In the end, the best victory is the one that looks like a defeat.

You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. You end up tripping over your own two feet.” (Hadrian)

Some of the hardest battles you will fight are those against the demons of your past, over which you have no control. It’s time to retreat from those battles.

The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.

From this vantage, the whole notion of a “battlefield park” seemed a contradiction in terms. Preserved here for eternity was peace, beauty and quiet—the precise opposite of the events memorialized.

Narratives were far easier to shape than battles.

Many ‘battles’ don’t have winners and losers –– there are just losers.

Our battle of wills would never be complete. But there was no battle worth fighting if it would tear us apart.

Against all the odds, we built a better navy than theirs—from scratch—in two months! We now rule the waves in the Mediterranean Sea—Our Sea! The day will come—it begins today—when Rome will master the world! Alexander will roll in his grave, Atlantis will decay in her decadence, and these demons of Harappa will entertain Hades with their theatrics this very night. But Rome will live on in fame and glory. It starts with our victory today!