top of page
"The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Battle quotes

"Ungodliness has always declared war on godliness."
Author Name
Personal Development

"We heard the army before we saw it.The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like every Patriots fan in New England was charging us with bazookas."
Author Name
Personal Development

"We find ourselves constantly in battle in the vast human theaters of conflict."
Author Name
Personal Development

"To deny the battle is unwise. To believe that I can fight it without God is insane. To actually do so is suicidal. No wonder so many of us walk around looking like death warmed over."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle."
Author Name
Personal Development

"A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. 'She is a girl,' she said, 'and I do not think that she is yours. I had a thousand other men.' He tossed his spear at my feet and gave my mother the back of his hand across the face, so she began to weep. 'Girl or boy, we fight our battles,' he said, 'but the gods let us choose our weapons.' He pointed to the spear, then to my mother's tears, and I picked up the spear."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?"
Author Name
Personal Development

"General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off."
Author Name
Personal Development

"What is important is not to fight, but to fight the right enemy."
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by David Mamet

"The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create."
Society

"Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember."
Truth

"I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word."
Word

"The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle."
Battle

"It's only words... unless they're true."
Word

"I hate vacations. There's nothing to do."
Hate

"Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills."
Amusement

"We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife."
Drama

"A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue."
Film

"People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want."
People
bottom of page