
Folks who only battle the symptoms of stress are losing the battle because the symptoms are sure to return if the causes aren't dealt with. —
Gudjon Bergmann

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle. —
David Mamet

I felt like I was losing some imaginary battle over the forces of fate and love. —
Jessica Fox

Do we fight? If we do, then know that in battle there is only winning and losing. Rules against hurting are for games. —
Robert Jordan

For almost a minute the two of us were locked in a battle of wills that had no possible winner, only a different order of losing. —
Mira Grant

We tend to talk about death as if it is
losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not. —
Hanya Yanagihara

India is using troops in Kashmir. They are losing the battle of heart and minds. It's like treating cancer with dispirin. —
Imran Khan

I have won every battle, yet somehow I'm losing the war. —
Anonymous

The moment you believe you will fail, you have already lost the battle. —
Bianca Frazier

There's times a woman's just got to fight, even if she knows it's a losing battle. —
Novala Takemoto

A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing. —
Warren Eyster

Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it's an almost losing battle against it. —
Dejan Stojanovic

No one answered. You could hear the light buzzing over us. I love that sound. It means school isn't working, that the teachers are losing the battle. —
Adam Rapp

My heart melted a little thinking of the effort he'd put into trying to be what I needed, and I knew I fought a losing battle. —
Melissa Haag

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it. —
Hannah Arendt

We were doomed from the start. A lost cause. A losing battle. And yet, in that narrow instant, I didn't give a single fuck. —
Julie Johnson

Take your energy - instead of losing it in all the little hassles and all the little battles you could have fought with opponents who didn't matter. —
Frederick Lenz

There was a time when obesity was the losing battle our people faced. Not so anymore. As soon as food became scarce, curves became coveted. —
Laura Thalassa

Sometimes by
losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. —
Donald Trump

A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain. —
Niccolo Machiavelli