Fighting is a way of standing up to your inner voice of discouragement and resignation. Your fighting spirit will give you resilience and self-reliance when life gets tough. Inspirational fighting quotes will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.
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Famous Fighting Quotes
We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting. – Mao Tse-Tung
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win. – Mahatma Gandhi
Nobody can hurt me without my permission. – Mahatma Gandhi

If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality. – Roopleen
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. – Herbert Hoover
When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up. – Roy T. Bennett
There s a moment in fighting when strength of muscle ain t everything because enemy has already given you enough energy to gain the victory. – Toba Beta
If you can’t go back to your mother’s womb, you’d better learn to be a good fighter. – Anchee Min
Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering ‘I will try again tomorrow – Mary Anne Radmacher
Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives. – Criss Jami
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. – Alfred Adler
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. – Robert Collier
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. – Sun Tzu
War means fighting, and fighting means killing. – Nathan Bedford Forrest
It always seems impossible until it’s done. – Nelson Mandela
Blood is just red sweat. – Enson Inoue
Fights begin and end with handshakes. – Cameron Conaway
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. – Confucius
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it. – George Bernard Shaw
You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion – he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle. – Julien Smith
A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard. – Bruce Lee
There’s a moment in fighting when strength of muscle ain’t everything because enemy has already given you enough energy to gain the victory. – Toba Beta
Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. – Louis Pasteur
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. – Napoleon Bonaparte
There was no such thing as a fair fight. All vulnerabilities must be exploited. – Cary Caffrey
How long should you try? Until. – Jim Rohn
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting. – Sun Tzu
Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it. – Rasheed Ogunlaru
Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. – Anonymous
The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something — war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce. – G. K. Chesterton
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. – Baltasar Gracin Y Morales
That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms. – George Bernard Shaw
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on. – Robert Frost
It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. – Vince Lombardi
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it. – G. K. Chesterton
Everyone has a plan until they’ve been hit. – Joe Lewis
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can. – Og Mandino
Some Warriors look fierce, but are mild. Some seem timid, but are vicious. Look beyond appearances; position yourself for the advantage. – Deng Ming-Dao
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. – Norman Vincent Peale
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. – Sun Tzu
He who hesitates, meditates in a horizontal position. – Ed Parker
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. – Sun Tzu
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. – Muhammad Ali
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. – Ernest Hemingway
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. – Margaret Thatcher
Wise men do not quarrel with each other. – Danish Proverb
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. – Abigail Van Buren
There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win. – Muhammad Ali
Quarrel? Nonsense: we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? – George Eliot
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. – George Orwell
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. – St. Francis de Sales
Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting. – Sun Tzu
The foolish race of mankind is swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel — and all of them are right. – Heinrich Heine
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. – Vincent Van Gogh
Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. – Mohandas Gandhi
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. – Napoleon Hill
Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe? – John Milton
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine. – Friedrich Schiller
Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability. – Sun Tzu
Martial arts are not about fighting; it’s about building character. – Bo Bennett
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. – Mahatma Gandhi
I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life. – Jackie Chan
In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse. – Lev Grossman