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Quotes About Fighting

There's nothing like the bravery and the strength and the extraordinary optimism of a five-year-old child in a cancer hospital, fighting to live. It's there inside the spirit.
~ Frank Langella
When its back's against the wall, even positivity will come out fighting!
~ Serina Hartwell
We approached the post at dawn from the high ground to the north. Our contact led us inside. Most of the soldiers were asleep and we wanted to capture them. However, some of our Mujahideen were not very quiet and the detail woke up and started fighting us. We
~ Ali Ahmad Jalali
You are my armor and my sword, my faith and my treasure, everything I'm fighting for.
~ Alice Hoffman
And the Children of the Warmakers're exempt from fighting their parents' war
~ Allen Ginsberg
Some things were worth fighting for, but sometimes the fight was internal.
~ ALLISON BRENNAN
Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting
~ Ambrose Bierce
Time hasn't been kind." "Time never is. A fighter keeps fighting even so. Thought you were a fighter?
~ Joe Abercrombie
A battle is no place for a self-respecting warrior, but if you must attend one at least have the good taste to be where the fighting isn't.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The world is a grey place. A place of half-truths. Of half-wrongs and half-rights. Yet there are things worth fighting for, and they must be pursued with all our vigour and commitment. Half-measures achieve nothing.' 'What
~ Joe Abercrombie
You seem happy enough," came Monza's voice, "for a man about to risk his life." Shiver's opened his eyes and turned his grin on her. "I've made peace with myself." "Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win." "Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting." "I'm starting to think that's the only victory worth a shit," she muttered, almost to herself.
~ Joe Abercrombie
But then getting warriors to fight has always been easy. It's stopping the bastards that's the tougher trick.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Cosca winced. "You always were far too attached to fighting. How often did I tell you? A mercenary has no business getting involved with that nonsense.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.
~ Joe Baca
Sam Cleary reached the two old men fighting on the ground and used the fire extinguisher for the first time, bringing it down two-handed to hit Charlie Manx in the face. He would use it for the second time on Tom Priest, not thirty seconds later, by which time Tom was well dead. Not to mention well done.
~ Joe Hill
Humanity is worse than flies. If even one dried nugget of offal survives the flames, we'll be swarming all over it. Fighting about who owns it and selling the most fragrant chunks to the wealthy and the gullible. You're afraid it's the End Times because we're surrounded by death and ruin. Nurse Willowes, don't you know? Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem. Did
~ Joe Hill
Thucydides: "Any nation that draws too great a distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.
~ Joe Klein
Certainly, none of us enjoy going through struggles, but you have to understand that your struggle may be an opportunity for advancement and promotion. The very thing you are fighting against so tenaciously may be the springboard that catapults you to a new level of excellence. Your challenges may become your greatest assets.
~ Joel Osteen
And while there's so much wisdom that I don't know, I know that evil doesn't happen for a cosmic reason, a 'balance of good' bullshit. Evil happens because it can, because circumstances allow it to take place. And you build your own sanctuary against it to keep yourself sane, to keep yourself fighting it.
~ Joey W. Hill
You don't get what you don't fight for.
~ Johann Hari
I was feeling so lost and depressed, but now, okay … I am a fighter. I feel good. You come out of your corner crying, and you start to fight." She blew her smoke away from me, into the air. "It changes you," she said. "You feel strong then.
~ Johann Hari
For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If I don't give up in the ring, I don't give up in life... I try to live my life the same way.
~ Eddie Alvarez
The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives me strength.
~ Manny Pacquiao