Fighting Sayings and Fighting Quotes (2024)

There's a moment in fighting when strength of muscle ain't everything because the enemy has already given you enough energy to gain the victory. Toba Beta

A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard. Bruce Lee

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. Napoleon Bonaparte

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

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. Sun Tzu

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

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times Bruce Lee

Everyone has a plan until they've been hit. Joe Lewis

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed. Margaret Mitchell

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. David Friedman

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win. Mahatma Gandhi

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives. Criss Jami

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. Sun Tzu

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it. George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right. Heinrich Heine

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Mahatma Gandhi

Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe. John Milton

Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability. Sun Tzu

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi

The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting. Paulette Jiles

We are twice armed if we fight with faith. Plato

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. Mark Twain

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. Vince Lombardi

He who hesitates, meditates in a horizontal position. Ed Parker

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. Isoroku Yamamoto

We make war that we may live in peace. Aristotle

Where there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph. Pierre Corneille

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. Margaret Thatcher

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. Friedrich Nietzsche

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. Woodrow T. Wilson

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Salvor Hardin

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one. Bertrand Russell

Nobody can hurt me without my permission. Mahatma Gandhi

Blood is just red sweat. Enson Inoue

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on. Robert Frost

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it. G. K. Chesterton

Wise men do not quarrel with each other. Danish Proverb

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. Abigail Van Buren

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

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. St. Francis de Sales

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people. Cesar Chavez

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

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong--but that is the way to bet it. Damon Runyon

All my life I've been fighting and all my life I've got into trouble from it. Paul Newman

I'm fighting for this woman's life, not her temporal innocence. Ann Bancroft

A colonial war is a very dirty kind of war. You're not fighting armed forces. You're fighting mostly unarmed people. Chomsky

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Phyllis Bottome

Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition. Vance Havner

It's hard enough resisting the real enemy. That's a full-time job. If we start fighting other Christians, we're fighting two wars— and one of them is suicidal. John Richard Wimber

You are but a poor soldier of Christ if you think you can overcome without fighting, and suppose you can have the crown without the conflict. St. John Chrysostom

Fight the good fight with all thy might; / Christ is thy strength, and Christ thy right; / Lay hold on life, and it shall be / Thy joy and crown eternally. John Samuel Bewley Monsell

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. Fedor Dostoevsky

The enemy we're fighting is a bit different than the one we war-gamed against. William Wallace

We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender. Winston Churchill

I'm going to fight hard. I'm going to give them hell. Harry S. Truman

From the moment a child is born, the death process, and the fight against it, begins. Billy Graham

Fighting comes in many forms. It involves struggle of some sort and a lot of emotion. It's not just a physical act— it can be verbal, too. Elaine Slavens

No matter who starts it, fighting is always the wrong way out of a bad situation. Elaine Slavens

Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate. Larry David

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. Ernest Hemingway

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. Herbert Hoover

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

Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it. Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. Napoleon Hill

I've been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can't have the person who was worth all the fighting for? Stephanie Lennox

If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back. Holy Black

Anything worth having is worth fighting for. Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I will not die without fighting for a life I am not yet done living. Bethany Wiggins

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