Top 40 Fighting Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “Fight for your dreams, and your dreams will fight for you.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Quotes About Dreams

2. “To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

Also featured in: Winning Quotes

3. “The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

Also featured in: Winning Quotes

4. “Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming.”

— Tom Hiddleston

5. “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”

— Ayn Rand

6. “Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.”

— Ayn Rand

Also featured in: Future Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

7. “If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion.”

— Napoleon

8. “If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Quotes About Night, Quotes About Laughter

9. “I’ve always believed that you should never, ever give up and you should always keep fighting even when there’s only a slightest chance.”

— Michael Schumacher

10. “If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear.”

— Kobe Bryant

11. “Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Quotes About Light

12. “Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.”

— Mike Tyson

13. “Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Uplifting Quotes

14. “There comes a time when you have to drop your burdens in order to fight for yourself and your dreams.”

— Les Brown

15. “Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color.”

— Rumi

16. “Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Quality Quotes, Quotes About Giving

17. “Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don’t want will automatically take over.”

— Les Brown

18. “We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream, and we won’t let this world die without a fight.”

— Albert Camus

19. “Face adversity head on in your training and you will conquer it smoothly in your fight.”

— Conor McGregor

Also featured in: Adversity Quotes, MMA Quotes

20. “He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.”

— Bertolt Brecht

21. “If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.”

— John Steinbeck

22. “Real champions fight through adversity.”

— Conor McGregor

Also featured in: Real Quotes, Adversity Quotes

23. “There’s a storm inside of us, a burning river, a drive. You push yourself further than anyone could think possible. You are never out of the fight.”

— Marcus Luttrell

24. “Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.”

— Barack Obama

25. “How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight?”

— Chuck Palahniuk

26. “If you are going to try, go all the way or don’t even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Quotes About Trying

27. “The secret of change consists in concentrating one’s energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.”

— Dan Millman

28. “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Quotes About War, Art Quotes

29. “I work hard and fight easy.”

— Conor McGregor

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, MMA Quotes

30. “Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.”

— Tim Ferriss

Also featured in: School Quotes

31. “Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Also featured in: Letting Go Quotes

32. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

— Socrates

Also featured in: Change Quotes

33. “I believe God will fight my battles for me.”

— Joel Osteen

34. “Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.”

— Marianne Williamson

35. “The first rule of fight club is, you don’t talk about fight club.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Also featured in: Firsts Quotes

36. “The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God’s name is Abraxas.”

— Hermann Hesse

37. “If we’re going to fight a disease, let’s fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.”

— Robin Williams

38. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”

— Plato

39. “The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.”

— Massimo Vignelli

Also featured in: Fashion Quotes

40. “Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.”

— Johnny Cash