Robbie Lawler Quotes

You want to win the wars you fight. That’s why you have to pick your wars carefully.

I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it.

I don't like to dabble in anything I don't do well. I don't talk politics.

I pass on any opportunity I see that I can't add value on.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

When we separated, I did not want to get in a slugfest. I had to take the high ground.

The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go away, they are only postponed to someone else's advantage

There are certain battles that you pick. When they're not worth picking, they're laughable stories.

I've got to pick my fights at the right time.

I don't believe in uselessly fighting for nothing.

Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.

If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are not in danger, do not fight.

The fundamental principle is that no battle, combat, or skirmish is to be fought unless it will be won.

If I'm not in the mood to deal with you, then I just don't deal with you. I look at it like, me not dealing with you could save me a lot of trouble - me forcing myself to deal with you could bring me a lot of trouble. So I just play it by ear.

There are routes not to be followed, armies not to be attacked, citadels not to be besieged, territory not to be fought over.

We should find out as much as possible about someone before coming into conflict with him.

A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready for what you want; for what we prepare for is what we shall get.

We shall choose our adversaries, not the other way around.

You gotta choose what battles you can win.

They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.

Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.

I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol. "That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me either.

I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. I guess it would have been a matter of time till I turned around with a gun myself, to go after those coming for us. But I was fortunate. The grenade incident was about an explosion which destroyed a section of my school, from a grenade that me and my cousin detonated by accident. We both lived to tell about it.

One of the most fruitless, irritating wastes in the world is arguing-the contentious, endless kind of arguing that is akin to quarreling, and causes feuding in families and among friends, and leaves resentful feeling in homes, in hearts, in businesses and professions, and in all kinds of gatherings in public and private places, and in all relationships of life-and with so little that it ever seems to settle!

Listen to your customers but don't (always) believe what they say-they know even less about the future than you.