Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Combat. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Combat Quotes And Sayings by 88 Authors including Mark Lawrence,George Bernard Shaw,Bruce Lee,Sun Tzu,Calia Read for you to enjoy and share.
Single combat? We're leaving. -- Mark Lawrence
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win. -- George Bernard Shaw
You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him. -- Bruce Lee
In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. -- Sun Tzu
Tell me what you're fighting and I'll fight with you. -- Calia Read
In any hand-to-hand combat, there's a constant back-and-forth of blows, -- John Eldredge
And it's often in those battles that we are most alive: it's on the frontlines of our lives that we earn wisdom, create joy, forge friendships, discover happiness, find love, and do purposeful work. If you want to win any meaningful kind of victory, you'll have to fight for it. -- Eric Greitens
The dance of battle is always played to the same impatient rhythm. What begins in a surge of violent motion is always reduced to the perfectly still. -- Sun Tzu
Is the warrior's greatest weapon, -- Erin Hunter
Sometimes battles are unavoidable. -- Shannon A. Thompson
Victory is in the battle. -- Amy Harmon
This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills. -- Janet Morris
The Warrior knows that no man is an island.
He cannot fight alone; whatever his plan, he depends on other people. He needs to discuss his strategy, to ask for help, and, in moments of relaxation, to have someone with whom he can sit by the fire, someone he can regale with tales of battle. -- Paulo Coelho
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other. -- Thomas Carlyle
fierce lovers.
and battle warriors
both come
from the same place.
there is bound
to be,
some bloodshed. -- Sanober Khan
Defeat the enemies strategy. -- Sun Tzu
Please challenge me because
whenever I am challenged, I learn a
way to survive and a brilliant
technique to fight. -- Rohan Nath
There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you. -- William Powell
Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender. -- Gerry Spence
The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Marine, eager but tempered by the fight -- Chris Kyle
Every battle defines you -- Unknown
I'm thinking: am I supposed to fight, and what do I fight with, and whom am I fighting? -- Nick Hornby
We fought.'
'A duel?'
'Nothing that formal. A simultaneous decision to murder one another is more like it. -- Roger Zelazny
A duel, whether regarded as a ceremony in the cult of honour, or even when reduced in its moral essence to a form of manly sport, demands a perfect singleness of intention, a homicidal austerity of mood. [The duel] -- Joseph Conrad
We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again. -- Nathanael Greene
Fight only after creating conditions for victory. -- Toyotomi Hideyoshi
The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time. -- Bruce Lee
Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero. -- Charles Studd
A lot of blood,
A lot of dead people,
A lot of victims,
A lot of useless battles,
A lot of predictable battles, so far what's next?
As far as now I suggest to change the road, it's too messy this road in which all are walking. Somebody will fall... -- Deyth Banger
Marines - you beat them down and they come back for more. -- Chris Kyle
A Warrior knows when a battle is worth fighting. -- Paulo Coelho
A fight is like a fire. You think you have it under control, you think you can stop it whenever you want, but before you know it, it's living, breathing thing and there's no controlling it and you were a fool to think you could. -- Jenny Han
Superior and inferior wage one hundred battles a day. -- Han Fei
Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting! -- Bruce Lee
As much as I enjoy a fight, I cannot always indulge myself, and just now I had more weighty matters to occupy my time than spilling the blood of strange warriors. -- Edgar Rice Burroughs
A strong pursuit, give no time for the enemy to think, take advantage of victory, uproot him, cut off his escape route. -- Alexander Suvorov
But the greatest battle of all is with yourself - your weaknesses, your emotions, your lack of resolution in seeing things through to the end. You must declare unceasing war on yourself. -- Robert Greene
Fighting is art and there is nothing more beautiful than the painted canvas of just totally kicking someone's ass. -- Frank Shamrock
What is important is not to fight, but to fight the right enemy -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
In prison Shadow had learned there were two kinds of fights: don't fuck with me fights, where you made it as showy and impressive as you could, and private fights, real fights, which were fast and hard and nasty, and always over in seconds. -- Neil Gaiman
The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday. -- Brigham Young
We have a tendency to think of war as this quasi-mystical thing, and that interpretation flattens the experience - by using different perspectives, I wanted to open a place for readers to compare and contrast, to make judgments, to engage. -- Phil Klay
Strength of swords, honor in victory. -- L. J. Noker
I don't like to fight. -- June Allyson
The Warrior sometimes fights with those he loves. -- Paulo Coelho
Fighting is pure chaos, and to be a good fighter you simply have to be prepared mentally and physically to handle that chaos. -- B.j. Penn
You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting. -- Curtis Lemay
A fight is a fight. And life is a fight. -- Erik Apple
War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions. -- Erwin Rommel
Protect and Survive -- Uk Government
Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man. -- Taya Kyle
It is a principle of the art of war that one should simply lay down his life and strike. If one's opponent also does the same, it is a even match. Defeating one's opponent is then a matter of faith and destiny. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
There's no reality without battles and no future without fights. -- Henning Mankell
Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like. -- Dick Cavett
pose the most direct threat -- Anonymous
If you walk through life in a fighting pose with your fists balled up and ready to strike, someone, someday, somewhere, is going to want to test your mettle. -- Neal Boortz
War: that mad game the world so loves to play. -- Jonathan Swift
Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Not all battles are fought with weapons. -- Cayla Kluver
There is two rules to win your battle,Fight smart & fight alone -- Mohammed Sekouty
Seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armor, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency. -- Raymond Chandler
I've always welcomed war, but when the last battle ends, what life is left for a warrior? -- Andrea Cremer
You must not fight. Do no harm to anyone. Do right always. -- Wovoka
Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results. -- Carl Von Clausewitz
War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a slow attrition of nerve and fortitude, or be over in one brilliant flash, an extravagant conflagration of flame and blood and waste. -- Kate Forsyth
We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale. -- Carl Von Clausewitz
He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength. -- Sun Tzu
Life is warfare. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A battle? What battle? Jasmira shrieked. -- A.o. Peart
A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard. -- Bruce Lee
War? One can lose oneself in the joy of battle, in fighting for a glorious cause, but there are not many glorious causes for which to fight these days. -- Donna Tartt
Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
How many battles make a war? -- Walter Wangerin Jr.
Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self. -- John Bytheway
Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means. -- Nelson Mandela
The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order to crush the enemy is all that is necessary for him. -- D.t. Suzuki
You haven't seen a thing until you've seen this man fight. My sword is sharp. My heart strong. My spirit ferocious - and I am going to live. Let the swords clash. Let the fight begin. -- Carew Papritz
To engage in a battle, one must know oneself, believe in oneself, and overcome one's own obstacle -- Yuu Watase
When I am fighting I am keeping my mind empty for any expectations. I am waiting for something unique, completely new. -- Rickson Gracie
Modern war is fought by a number of strong, sweaty horsemen with constipation, who have their eyes on power, on wealth and on glory, and who obey the rules just when it pleases them. -- Dorothy Dunnett
Film is a battleground. -- Samuel Fuller
Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides. -- Ferdowsi
What was that technique you were using on those bastards?"
"An ancient form called kicking ass. -- Nora Roberts
A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words. -- Brandon Lee
All action must be performed with detachment. Regard pain, pleasure; gain, loss; victory, defeat as equal. Battle for battle's sake with your mind completely on what you must do. With this knowledge there is no waster even in the first attempt. There are no impediments. -- Meera Uberoi
Fight your battles with words, not fists -- Ann M. Martin
Warfare is theatre, I have said, and the essence of theatre is aritifce. What we show, we will not do. What we don't show, we will do. -- Steven Pressfield
How do you fight when you're trying to pull somebody's arms off or twist their head off? That makes for a different kind of fight. -- Catherine Hardwicke
Laying aside also all considerations of works and engines of war, the invention of which has long since reached its limit, and for the improvement of which I see no further hope in the applied arts, I shall recognize the following types of stratagems connected with siege operations ... -- Frontinus
Battle is an orgy of disorder. -- George S. Patton Jr.
If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace. -- Morihei Ueshiba
We all fight wars - in our work, within our families and abroad in the wider world. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in. -- Steven Pressfield
The mind is the battlefield. -- Joyce Meyer
In tactics, action is the governing rule of war. -- Ferdinand Foch
War in the Tribal Zone. -- Andrew Woolford
There's always hand-to-hand combat. All you need is to come up with a knife, and you'll at least stand a chance. If I get jumped, I'm dead!" I can hear my voice rising in anger.
"But you won't! You'll be living up in some tree eating raw squirrels and picking off people with arrows. -- Suzanne Collins
