“In the battle between logic and crazy, crazy always wins.”
Jenna Black (1965) American writer
Source: Shadowspell
http://www.sports.ru/football/5606178.html (2008)
“In the battle between logic and crazy, crazy always wins.”
Jenna Black (1965) American writer
Source: Shadowspell
“You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) American actress, model
“Choose battles that you can win without losing your heart and your soul.”
Kristin Cast (1986) American writer
Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty
Variant translations
Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities... It is best to win without fighting.
Source: The Art of War, Chapter III · Strategic Attack
John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic
The Work of Iron, in Nature, Art, and Policy http://books.google.com/books?id=uYEM0Sd18DsC&q="you+may+either+win+your+peace+or+buy+it%22+%22win+it+by+resistance+to+evil%22+%22buy+it+by+compromise+with+evil"&pg=PA196#v=onepage Lecture at Tunbridge Wells (February 16, 1858).
“Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.”
George Marshall (1880–1959) US military leader, Army Chief of Staff
As quoted in A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought (2004) by Lloyd Albert Johnson
“The man who shouts wins battles; the quiet man wins the war.”
Robert Ferrigno (1947) American writer
Prayers For The Assassin (2006)