Fight Quotes: Igniting Your Inner Warrior (Page 3)

"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"Better to fight for something than live for nothing"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out"

Steven Wright, Comedian

"All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

"People fight, they get angry, they do drugs, and they do crazy things"

Steven Adler, Musician

"He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again"

Tacitus, Historian

"You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose"

Robin Williams, Comedian

"Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP"

Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Leader

"I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

"To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

"If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator

"The man who runs may fight again"

Menander, Poet

"You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out"

Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian

"You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die"

Herbert Hoover, President

"At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't"

Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian

"The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises"

Jason Statham, Actor

"The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

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