#battles

Half of my heart's got a real good imagination, half of my heart's got you. . .Half of my hearts got a right mind to tell you that half of my heart won't do. ↗

— John Mayer

#imagination

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. ↗

— James Joyce

#behind #forehead #fought #inspired #material

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#disaster #enemy #fight #hundred #know

They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women. ↗

— Titus Livius

#end #less #men #more #outset

My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics. ↗

— David Miliband

#battle #battles #bigger #bottom-up #confidence

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#battles #consists #fighting #happiness #itself

We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles. ↗

— Bill Scott

#involved #legal #me #middle #now

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

#conflict #ideas #intelligence #progress #war

Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos. ↗

— Ray Harryhausen

#because #better #charge #did #director

By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life. ↗

— Emmett Kelly

#back #battles #done #gives #going