Fighting Quotes
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"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."
"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."
"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die."
"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?"
"Never let go of a good thing without a fight. Especially if that good thing is a pair of boxing gloves."
"Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan."
"When red fights with white, pink is always the winner. Let that be a lesson in love."
"I both made the knife-fighting team, and I got cut. If only love were so easy to understand."
"Politically, I feel out of touch, like I’m wearing gloves—boxing gloves. We need to go bareknuckle to beat back the entrenched establishment."
"He’s as tall as a tree, but he fights like a rose bush. What’s with all the scratching? I should cut him down in the name of romance."
"I asked for info, and he offered it for a price. Now I’m selling him my security services, and if he doesn’t pay me, I’m going to give him a karate lesson—for free."
"I wish the military were the militerary. Less fighting and more reading."
"Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back."
"You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle."
"So many women are fighting to receive my love that Chuck Norris had to intervene, and instantly he was defeated by desire. #OutBoastKanye"
"So many people will tell you ”no”, and you need to find something you believe in so hard that you just smile and tell them ”watch me”. Learn to take rejection as motivation to prove people wrong. Be unstoppable. Refuse to give up, no matter what. It’s the best skill you can ever learn."
"Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work."
"Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do."
"You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful."
"Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret."
"Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated."
"He that dare not die, dare scarce fight valiantly (475)."
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you."
"We give up on life so easily. It's time we stopped and started fighting for it!"
"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."
"There is more for us to gain through love than hate."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America"
"We need to be fit and ready for anything that might come our way."
"Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is freedom, if there is no truth? And what is truth, if there is no freedom? Both are worth fighting for — because one without the other would be hell."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side."
"Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation."
"I know I am brave because the thought of giving up scares me more than the thought of fighting"
"Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes.Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You’re doing just fine."
"I’m not saying we’ll live to see some sort of paradise. But just fighting for change makes you stronger. Not hoping for anything will kill you for sure. Take a chance, Jess. You’re already wondering if the world could change. Try imagining a world worth living in, and then ask yourself if that isn’t worth fighting for. You’ve come too far to give up on hope, Jess."
"He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight."
"As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human beings who have just reached the end of a war against a common enemy of theirs will sooner or later start or continue killing and/or fighting against each other."
"Peace ain't worth fighting for."
"Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork."
"I’ve learned to fall like the BJJ player, to protect the body through controlling the distribution of force by slapping the mat with hands open. With hands open. Hands open. Open. O Pen."
"Fighting and writing’s deepest layers of beauty lie not only in the physical and mental realms of what we know, but also as an incognizable instinct, a realm we will never fully know but will forever feel."
". . and so it is that A Sensei may impart his knowledge of the martial Way and nurture your fighting abilities, but you must learn the wisdom of finding other ways than martial skills to solve your problems"
"As we fulfill our dream and move toward success, we will not escape fighting"
"If you listen closely, silence can be deafening."
"All right, all right," he said, with that gesture I'd come to hate: two open palms facing me and patting the air, as if pushing me away, pushing me down, pushing any tears I might be preparing to cry back into their ducts."
"Fights begin and end with handshakes."
"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."
"If you keep fighting with yourself, you will have less energy to fight with life!"
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