Battle Quotes

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

If you go into a battle, it's better to win the first time.

Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.

There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.

Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.

In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.

And still Meriadoc the hobbit stood there blinking through his tears, and no one spoke to him, indeed none seemed to heed him. He brushed away the tears, and stooped to pick up the green shield that Eowyn had given him, and he slung it at his back. Then he looked for his sword that he had let fall; for even as he struck his blow his arm was numbed, and now he could only use his left hand.

Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead.

Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!

Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!

I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.

When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day.

I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

In battle, the ONLY bullets that count are those that hit.

Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.

And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.

God's will! my liege, would you and I alone, Without more help, could fight this royal battle!

Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.

Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second

And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside.

Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.

Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!

Most battles are won before they are ever fought.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge.

A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night.

Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes

Never let the enemy pick the battle site.

Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen!Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood;Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!

The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.

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

Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.

Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watchingmen fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.

Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.

But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see as much of it as any. Sharpen your blade!

Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.

Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of battle.

The fewer men, the greater share of honor.

All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.

It matters little who is the enemy, if we cannot beat off his attack.

And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in bitter pain. Were I permitted, in this dark hour I would choose the latter.

Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.

Battle... brings out all that is best.

He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.

Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!

Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.

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.

The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.

Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Why is it that all battles are fought in the middle of the night, in downpouring rain, and at the corners of four different maps?

You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.

Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.

If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges.

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden! Dire deeds awake, dark is it eastward. Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded! Forth Eorlingas!