77 Movie Quotes about Picking Your Battles (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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.

11 My leadership instincts told me that time had come to... retreat!

Rabbit From Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

12 Eh, trivialities. We got more important things to think about.

Gopher From Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

13 There's got to be another way out of this. It's time we put our thinking caps on.

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

14 Wait a minute. All we're doing is going around in circles.

Oliver Hardy as Ollie in A Chump at Oxford

15 I'll confuse her with a silent, but dignified retreat.

Gail Davis as Sally Brown in Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown

16 Negative. It's not a mission priority.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Terminator T 800 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day

17 You may've won the battle, little dude, but you lost the war.

Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

18 Busy, sonny. Busy. Can't stop to gossip now.

Stan Freberg as The Beaver in Lady and the Tramp

19 Exactly. There's no way to win. The game itself is pointless.

Matthew Broderick as David Lightman in WarGames (1983)

20 A modern crusader who deals in bottles instead of battles.

James Cagney as Eddie Bartlett in The Roaring Twenties (1939)

77 Movie Quotes about Picking Your Battles (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Latest Movie Sound Bites

Poll