Losing A Battle Quotes

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side — E.F. Schumacher

Love is a fighting a losing battle. — Mary Elizabeth

Fighting a losing battle is as good as tucking in stones in your pockets, jumping in a dam and hoping to float. — Nomthandazo Tsembeni

The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it. — G.K. Chesterton

At the final end you won the war after losing every battle. — Bob Dylan

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race. — Charles Hamilton Houston

it's a losing battle at this point,but so was the alamo — Mary Elizabeth Summer

We must conquer the fear to avoid losing the battle. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When we direct a lot of hostile energy toward the inner critic, we enter into a losing battle. — Sharon Salzberg

Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle. — Jonathan Tropper

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