77 Movie Quotes about Picking Your Battles (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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.

21 Hey, look, you and us, we're just soldiers, right? We don't even know what this war's all about. All we do is we fight and we die. And for what? We don't get anything out of it.

Telly Savalas as Sergeant Big Joe in Kelly's Heroes

22 But he seems a little more concerned with not losing a battle than he does about winning one.

George C. Scott as General George Patton in Patton (1970)

23 You win, my lord. That is, the battle, not the war.

Honor Blackman as Goddess Hera in Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

24 So let's just stop gabbin' on about it. It's completely pointless. And it's gettin' us nowhere. -Right! -I agree. This is a complete waste of time.

Michael Palin in Monty Python's Life of Brian

25 We need to retreat! -My army's never lost a battle yet! -You won't have an army if you don't fall back!

Sean Bean as Odysseus in Troy

26 We're doing murder, Your Grace. -I hope to God I've fought my last battle.

Christopher Plummer as Duke Of Wellington in Waterloo (1970)

27 Aww, If this were my game and I faced these odds, I'd just fold up the board and put it on a shelf.

John Ritter as Peter Dickinson in The Flight of Dragons (1982)

28 You'll be nothing! -Five hundred years from now, who'll know the difference?

Pamelyn Ferdin as Lucy Van Pelt; Stephen Shea as Linus Van Pelt in Play It Again, Charlie Brown (1971)

29 You've got yourself a chip in the big game now. You're gonna tuck that away. You are gonna save that for a time when your own _ is on the line, and then you're gonna pull it out and I'm gonna cash it in for you. Right?

Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan in Clear and Present Danger

30 You're fighting a swamp with a teaspoon.

Cornel Wilde as Leonard Diamond in The Big Combo (1955)

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