77 Movie Quotes about Picking Your Battles (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 25, 2025

Memorable quotes about picking your battles, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 What's more important, a fortune or your life? -Well... -Hey, it's not exactly a trick question.

Rip Taylor as Genie in DuckTales: The Movie (1990)

2 I can't be bothered with that. I have no time for that sort of nonsense.

George Sanders as Shere Khan in The Jungle Book (1967)

3 The battle's over but the war has just begun and this way it will remain till the day when all are one.

Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime in The Transformers: The Movie

4 Any attempt to prove otherwise is futile because it just ain't true.

Tom Cruise as Lt. Daniel Kaffee in A Few Good Men

5 Next to a battle lost, the saddest thing is a battle won.

Christopher Plummer as Duke Of Wellington in Waterloo (1970)

6 Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say: hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

Richard Evelyn Vernon as Slartibartfast in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

7 A man eats an apple. He gets a piece of the core stuck between his teeth, you know? He tries to work it out with some cellophane off a cigarette pack. What happens? The cellophane gets stuck in there too.

Burt Lancaster as Steve Thompson in Criss Cross (1949)

8 All I have to do is bet on the winner, and I'll never lose.

Thomas F. Wilson as Biff Tannen in Back to the Future Part II

9 I got better things to do than listen to this. I think I'll go trim my toenails.

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

10 By using very small bait, I can be sure I won't catch too very large a fish.

John Fiedler as Piglet in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

77 Movie Quotes about Picking Your Battles (+ Sound Clips)

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