battle quotes

“Pessimism never won any battle.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.”

— Colin Powell

“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.”

— James Baldwin

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

— Margaret Thatcher

“When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte