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As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war. — B.H. Liddell Hart

If you wish for peace, understand war. — B.H. Liddell Hart

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best. — Eric Liddell

The secret of my success over the 400m is that I run the first 200m as fast as I can. Then, for the second 200m, with God's help I run faster. — Eric Liddell

The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes. — B.H. Liddell Hart

To foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent. — B.H. Liddell Hart

For Caesar met failure each time he relied on the direct, and retrieved it each time he resorted to the indirect. — B.H. Liddell Hart

The historian's rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug. — B.H. Liddell Hart

You just have to realize that Jet Li is a movie star. He's great at what he does, but if he stepped into our world he wouldn't last long. — Chuck Liddell

While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard. — B.H. Liddell Hart

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Christ for the world, for the world needs Christ! — Eric Liddell

And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within. — Eric Liddell

The kingdom is where the King reigns. If He is reigning in my heart, then the Kingdom of Heaven has come to me. — Eric Liddell

But time and surprise are the two most vital elements in war. — B.H. Liddell Hart

I believe every single one of us has a choice in life and that we can all choose to live out whatever our exceptional minds dream up. — Karni Liddell

I'll fight somebody in my backyard for free, just to see if I'm better than him. — Chuck Liddell

Anyone who, neglecting that fixed hour of prayer, [will] say he can pray at all times but will probably end in praying at no time. — Eric Liddell

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. — B.H. Liddell Hart

I don't try to knock 'em out, I just know I will — Chuck Liddell

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Loyalty is a noble quality, so long as it is not blind and does not exclude the higher loyalty to truth and decency. — B.H. Liddell Hart

The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian. — B.H. Liddell Hart

War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it. — B.H. Liddell Hart

The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect approach. — B.H. Liddell Hart

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out. — B.H. Liddell Hart

I'll always try to go the safest route, but once someone strikes you or puts their hands on you then it's on, at least for me. — Chuck Liddell

When someone is fearless, when pain isn't a factor, it's impossible to break his spirit. — Chuck Liddell

Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit. — Eric Liddell

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future — B.H. Liddell Hart

Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best. — Eric Liddell

If you are not guided by God, you will be guided by something or someone else. — Eric Liddell

The evolution of the sport is so fast, if you slow down for a second, you're past. — Chuck Liddell

I switch on and off very easily; I'm inherently lucky in that sense. I sleep well. — Chris Liddell

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. — Eric Liddell

The chief incalculable in war is the human will. — B.H. Liddell Hart

In war, the chief incalculable is the human will. — B.H. Liddell Hart

My day, normally speaking, is: I go the gym in the morning, I go and work for 10 or 12 hours, I have dinner, I go to sleep. — Chris Liddell

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge. — B.H. Liddell Hart

My memories make me vomit — Alice Liddell

If you want peace, understand war. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Someone should write a book about how Alice Liddell from Wonderland falls in love with Huckleberry Finn. I might rather want to read that book. — Heather Lyons

I don't think much of Tito Ortiz. He needs to grow balls and sign to fight Chuck Liddell. — Tank Abbott

Wonderlawn's lost us for ever. Alis, alas, she broke the glass! Liddell lokker through the leafery, ours is mistery of pain. — James Joyce

Engineering is a fantastic base for any career. — Chris Liddell

We must face the fact that international relations are governed by interests and not by moral principles. — B.H. Liddell Hart

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Is it mad to pray for better hallucinations? — Alice Liddell

People with disabilities want to be recognised for what they can do, not what they can't do. — Karni Liddell

Another day, a different dream perhaps — Alice Liddell

For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought. — B.H. Liddell Hart

A fighter with heart will almost always win out against a fighter with skill but no will. — Chuck Liddell

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will. — B.H. Liddell Hart

We are all missionaries. Wherever we go we either bring people nearer to Christ or we repel them from Christ. — Eric Liddell

I don't have a tolerance for long meetings. I generally expect to get things over with quickly. — Chris Liddell

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge. — Chris Liddell

For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters. — B.H. Liddell Hart

The destruction of Wonderland, is the destruction of me?! — Alice Liddell

Choices in life are not and should not be determined by our life circumstances. — Karni Liddell

The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ. — B.H. Liddell Hart

A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming blow from the air. — B.H. Liddell Hart

With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive. — B.H. Liddell Hart

What you learn at university is a good discipline but has little relevance to a real job. — Chris Liddell

I don't sit down and relax very much. I don't desire to. — Chris Liddell

You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice. — Eric Liddell

The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many. — B.H. Liddell Hart

The legitimate object of war is a more perfect peace-this sentence — B.H. Liddell Hart