77 Movie Quotes about Picking Your Battles (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

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.

31 Just one question. Did you calculate the risk?

William Holden as J.J. Sefton in Stalag 17 (1953)

32 Let's assume that we did beat them all. Then another group would come. And so on. And there would be no end. And I ask you, do we really want that?

Quote from Heroes of the East (1978)

33 Hey, Oscar go see who that is. If it ain't business, tell them forget it. Because right now, we're teaching school.

Malik Carter as Pinky in Black Belt Jones (1974)

34 The hard part about playing chicken is knowing when to flinch.

Scott Glenn as Bart Mancuso in The Hunt for Red October

35 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

36 No. If you fight for something noble, or for someone who needs your help, only then will God bless you in battle.

Ana De La Reguera as Sister Encarnación in Nacho Libre

37 Chicken? All right, so call it chicken. Who wants to be rich and dead?

Frank Sinatra as John Baron in Suddenly (1954)

38 Except that I never could get Joshua to learn the most important lesson. -What's that? -Futility. That there's a time when you should just give up.

John Wood in WarGames (1983)

39 Sir, is that really a priority right now?

Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark in The Avengers (2012)

40 Why should I waste my time on you when I'm hungry?

Quote from Game of Killers (1978)

77 Movie Quotes about Picking Your Battles (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

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