Battlefield Quotes

“When you’re ready to enter the battlefield of business, make sure you are armed with the two most important tools for business survival: industry experience and business knowledge.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“In war, the damage you inflict on the enemy might be immediately apparent. The damage you inflict on yourself in doing so will only become apparent later.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The heart is the battlefield of love. Some people end up by melting down as snow on a sunny day.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“The fiercest warriors, do not carry a sword to the battlefield; instead, they are armed with wisdom.”
― RJ Intindola quotes – (Gandolfo) – 1980

“Nicholas Róstov turned away and, as if searching for something, gazed into the distance, at the waters of the Danube, at the sky, and at the sun. How beautiful the sky looked; how blue, how calm, and how deep! How bright and glorious was the setting sun! With that soft glitter the water of the distant Danube shone. And fairer still were the far away blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and the pine forests veiled in mist to their summits . . . There was peace and happiness . . . 'I should wish for nothing else, nothing, if only I were there,' thought Róstov. 'In myself alone and in that sunshine there is so much happiness; but here . . . groans, suffering, fear, and this uncertainty and hurry . . . There - they are shouting again, and again are all running back somewhere, and I shall run with them, and it, death, is here above me and around . . . Another instant and I shall never again see the sun, this water, that gorge! . . .”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“He'd had all day to think about how he might manage this escapade without getting caught. The wars had taught him that rash courage was no substitute for a careful plan. But fate does not always cooperate with the plans of men.”
― Karen Maitland, The Gallows Curse

“God will let you into the battlefield, so you can understand the meaning of victory.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“We respond to the strut of warfare, this elixir of life harkens back to our primeval days: we harbor a deep-seated need to kill and conquer in order to stay and feel alive”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Dead and mutilated bodies, famine, and citizens handicapped by economic sanctions are all part of the warlords’ bartering chips for seizing power and securing valuable concessions. Many proud nations of indigenous people perished in battle for control of lands that rightfully did not belong to the army bearing superior forces. No army returns territory it took, unless compelled to do so by hard costs. The meek might inherit the earth someday, but for now the most aggressive and ruthless armies control the turf.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Waterloo teeth, so named for the battle when the first human vultures thought of raiding the bodies of the dead for the teeth in their jaws, selling the teeth for dentures.”
― Karen A. Wyle, What Heals the Heart

“If you want to be a victor in the battlefield, go on your knees. Call upon the God of all victories.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“You must be quicker to strike and quicker when you do. You must be tougher and cleverer, you must always look to attack, and you must fight without honour, without conscience, without pity.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half the World

“I love the hush of those deserted places, those old battlefields, always so breathtaking, as if we, as a species, have decided to fight only in beautiful places.”
― Philip Gerard

“They continued this deadly dance across the battlefield, played to the music of gunfire, which rattled them as much as it rattled the hulls of almost every landship in sight, and almost every one they couldn't turn quickly enough to see. Then the music took a bullet of its own, for Jacob no longer heard the song of Andil’s gun.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Hopebreaker

“A halt was called, and the men threw themselves prostrate on the road without loosening their packs. At that moment, the outfit badly needed a 'pick-me-up,' and it came.

'Listen!' said the sergeant.

Through the cloud and the mournful wind we heard the thunder of our guns — the French 75s. They were talking to us.”
― Clair Kenamore

“The soldier fell as if he were asleep.
In deadly silence, you see blood. Dark red as spilled wine, it spreads on the rocks. It spreads on a yellow flower. It spreads.”
― Florian Armas, Errant

“In the battle field, even if I lose my life, it is like losing my hair but in the battle field, even if I lose my single hair, the opponents will die in lakhs”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“When facing the battlefield, a woman of faith runs to her shield… God!”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman

“If you see a danger ahead, withdraw from the battle field.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“A victorious woman does not worry about the battlefield because she knows that her victory is certain.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman

“Better schooling may help you grab a better degree. But for winning in life you must learn from the hard battlefields of social living.”
― Sijin Bt

“In Old Savannah by Stewart Stafford

Quaking earth unleashed,
An immigrant stands proud in the mêlée,
Takes up the standard of his adopted country,
And joins the charge.

Blind in the cannon smoke,
Grapeshot ricochets past,
Then the patriot holds his gut,
And falls bleeding.

His wife awakes,
To see his apparition at the foot of their bed,
Morose and fading fast,
Tears hang like ever-present Spanish moss on live oak.

The immigrant stands proudly once more,
Motionless and eternal on the plinth,
A child with his father at the base points up at him,
With future glory in his eyes.

© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“They assumed all fishes are the same until they dragged me into the muds and realized I'm a mudfish. It's my domain, and I'm ready to war!”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive

“Those of us who where there would not have survived without those of you who remained here. Because the man fights and the woman feeds, the man hates the enemy and the woman a thousand miles away softens his heart with herself and the children so that his heart won't turn to stone.”
― Valentin Rasputin, Live and Remember

“Sixty seconds is a long time on the battlefield.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Operation Jihadi Bride: The Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS

“Warriors are born in battle - and war is living outside the field.”
― Laura Chouette

“Did that bastard, Osborn, relive it night after night in his sleep? Raffe knew he did not. Even when Lord Osborn had issued those orders which other men were forced to carry out, he had given less thought to them than a boy snapping the neck of a snared bird. He knew Gerard would have to carry out those commands. Osborn was Gerard's liege lord and Gerard was bound by the oath of fealty to serve him. To refuse to obey his command on the field of battle was unthinkable. Any man who did as much would be branded a coward and a traitor.

That night, after it was all over, Raffe had watched Osborn with his younger brother, Hugh, tossing down a flagon of sweet cypress wine, already planning the next day's sport, and it was plain he had already forgotten the whole incident. But then it is easy to forget if you only have to say the words and don't have to look into terrified faces or hear the screams echoing again and again through all the long dark nights.”
― Karen Maitland, The Gallows Curse

“This is my army," Sal yelled loud enough for her soldiers to hear. "These are my men. This is my country! You know the histories as well as I do. We were here first, so you must not have heard me. Get your asses off my damned iliri soil. I will only say it one more time, and next, it will be to your Emperor as I stick my white iliri arm down his pathetic, divine throat. Is that clear enough for you to understand?"
The men didn't bother to reply. They simply turned their horses and raced back to their lines. Sal and Jase shoved their helms back on as they rode, allowing the mares to canter easily across the muddy field.
"Ayati, I love you when you're angry", Jase said in her head, and Sal laughed, glancing at him once more.
"Just wait, killer, because I'm about to get really pissed", she teased.”
― Auryn Hadley, Defiance

“Prayer inserts me into the middle of any battlefield regardless of how gruesome or bloodied. And in the carnage of whatever that battle might be, it allows me to deliver a force greater than any raging on that field.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Lee was pleased at how well both sides held to their pledges of keeping soldiers out of the disputed states. That did not mean no one invaded Kentucky and Missouri, however. Every politician, Northern and Southern, who could stand on a stump and put one word after another, or ten thousand after another ten, flooded into the two states to tell their people just why they should choose the United States or the Confederacy.
Listening to a pro-Confederate orator thunder abuse at the North at a torchlight rally one night in Frankfort, Charles Marshall made a sour face and said, "Anyone can tell he spent the war safely far away from the firing lines. Had he ever faced the Yankees in battle, he would own far more respect for their man hood than he currently displays."
"How right you are," Lee replied, as appalled as his aide at the oratory: the speaker had just called the Northerners cold blooded, fat-faced, nigger-loving moneygrubbers. Lee went on, "I confess to a certain amount of embarrassment at representing the same nation as does this eloquent fellow." To emphasize his distaste, he turned half away from the shouting, gesticulating man up on the platform.
"I know what you mean, sir." But Marshall, as if drawn by some horrid fascination, kept watching the orator. Red light from the torches flickered off his spectacle lenses. "Even if he wins votes, he also sows hatred.”
― Harry Turtledove, The Guns of the South