These attack quotes will inspire you. The attack takes aggressive action against (a place or enemy forces) with weapons or armed force, typically in a battle or war.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging attack quotes, attack sayings, and attack proverbs.
Famous Attack Quotes
- “There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.” ~ Charles Horton Cooley
- “The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.” ~ Sun Tzu
- “Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.” ~ Steven Pressfield
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“Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm” ~ Sun Tzu
- “A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, “You are mad; you are not like us.”” ~ Anthony the Great
- “Mediocrity always attacks excellence.” ~ Michael Beckwith
- “Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession – their ignorance.” ~ Hendrik Willem van Loon
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“Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him” ~ Sun Tzu
- “Repeating easy tasks, again and again, gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.” ~ Seth Godin
- “In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.” ~ Ulysses S. Grant
- “I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that’s one of the things that he’s going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.” ~ Michael Bloomberg
- “Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.” ~ David Halberstam
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“I don’t like attacking.” ~ Barbara Bush
- “I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they’d never expect it.” ~ Jack Handey
- “Since Israel does not differentiate between attacking this group or that, we are saying our people can work individually or collectively to face this aggression.” ~ Ahmed Yassin
- “I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball” ~ Monica Seles
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“And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.” ~ Rafik Hariri
- “For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.” ~ Zach Wamp
- “The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.” ~ Mort Walker
- “Today, lawyers are attacking more; they’re attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.” ~ Joseph Wambaugh
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“In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.” ~ Laozi
- “A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.” ~ Kevin Mitnick
- “You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a… very brutal disciplinarian.” ~ Lynn Johnston
- “I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.” ~ Al Goldstein
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“Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.” ~ Sargent Shriver
- “Besides, wouldn’t it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?” ~ Joan D. Vinge
- “I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic’s foundations.” ~ Jean-Pierre Raffarin
- “We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.” ~ Richard Branson
- “I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.” ~ Dennis Bergkamp
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“The women’s movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.” ~ Carol P. Christ
- “I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.” ~ Ritchie Blackmore
- “What would it be like if I had something to defend – a home, a country, a family – and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys? How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?” ~ Amitav Ghosh
- “High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa’ida organization that was attacking this country.” ~ Dennis C. Blair
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“It’s unbelievable, there’s a book out attacking Gore when he’s the most unfortunate loser in political history.” ~ Vincent Bugliosi
- “Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.” ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
- “Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch.” ~ Craig Kilborn
- “It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.” ~ Carroll Quigley
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“Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.” ~ Horatio Nelson
- “It must be born in mind that one does not see directly – as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain – where the electrodes are attacking.” ~ Walter Rudolf Hess
- “I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?” ~ Zbigniew Brzezinski , Anxiety attack quotes
- “Today’s terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic importance, or venues of bustling life like public transportation or entertainment, like nightclubs.” ~ Cliff Stearns
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“When in doubt, ATTACK!” ~ George S. Patton
- “A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul.” ~ Ayi Kwei Armah
- “There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don’t see.” ~ Gordon Willis
- “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.” ~ Laozi
- “I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and follow their orders, and that they own and you work there, and you built it but you don’t own it, that’s a highly unnatural notion. You don’t have to study any complicated theories to see that this is an attack on human dignity.” ~ Noam Chomsky
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“I always try to attack. While I’m on the offensive, my opponent can think of nothing but defending.” ~ Marcelo Garcia
- “The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services, and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.” ~ John Perkins
- “For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other religious history – perhaps like no other book in any religious history- and still, it stands.” ~ Jeffrey R. Holland
- “What a lot of people don’t realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.” ~ Michael Caine
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“Never attack a problem without also presenting a solution.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.” ~ Bill Mollison
- “Just because someone thinks he is being attacked by the media doesn’t mean he is. Many times the media actually is being fair, and they’re attacking for good reason.” ~ Roger Ailes
- “Attacking or fleeing are part of the struggle; being paralyzed by fear is not.” ~ Paulo Coelho
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“I’m attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I’m sick of that.” ~ Billy Corgan
- “I’m attacking the basket more. Because I’m more comfortable on the line, that’s an area I want to get to.” ~ Tim Duncan
- “To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.” ~ Jacob Epstein
- “I’m not thick-skinned at all, and of course, I’m hurt by people attacking me as a person.” ~ Diane Abbott
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“It is useless attacking the insensible.” ~ Aesop
- “Confuse the enemy. Keep him in the dark on your intentions. Sometimes what seems a victory isn’t really a victory and sometimes a defeat isn’t really a defeat. Whether in attacking, counterattacking or defensive tactics, the idea of attacking should remain central, to always keep the initiative.” ~ Vo Nguyen Giap , Counter attack quotes
- “It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backward, but only forwards … This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defense?” ~ David Bronstein
- “This morning, you have a choice. You can lay in the dark replaying the awful events of the week, or you can turn the light on and read God’s Word-His truth-which is the best thing to do when lies are swarming and painful thoughts are attacking like a bunch of bloodthirsty mosquitoes.” ~ Lysa TerKeurst
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“There’s not much benefit in attacking an empty house.” ~ Eiji Yoshikawa
- “Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.” ~ Socrates
- “As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.” ~ Amanda Peet
Attack to take strong action against or try to hurt, injure, or destroy.
