Top 200 Fighting Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

102. “Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.”

— James Mattis

103. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”

— Margaret Thatcher

104. “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

105. “The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.”

— Sun Tzu

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

— Ayn Rand

107. “Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

108. “The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

109. “As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.”

— Chanakya

110. “Whatever my situation, I’m a strong disciplinarian; I can do what I hate to do but do it like I love it.”

— Mike Tyson

111. “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

112. “Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure.”

— Conor McGregor

113. “Never give up, no matter what.”

— Louis Zamperini

114. “Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.”

— Sun Tzu

115. “Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.”

— Ayn Rand

116. “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

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

— Kobe Bryant

118. “Train hard, fight easy.”

— Alexander Suvorov

119. “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

— Ronald Reagan

120. “Know yourself and you will win all battles.”

— Sun Tzu

121. “I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”

— Alexander the Great

122. “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

123. “There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.”

— Winston Churchill

124. “Don’t make training easy. Make it harder so that you will get better.”

— Manny Pacquiao

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

— Eckhart Tolle

126. “The way is in training.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

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

— Mike Tyson

128. “He who wishes to fight must first count the cost.”

— Sun Tzu

129. “I will take what is mine with fire and blood.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— Eckhart Tolle

131. “I see only my objective – the obstacles must give way.”

— Napoleon

132. “Know thyself, know thy enemy.”

— Sun Tzu

133. “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”

— Sun Tzu

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

— Les Brown

135. “So a military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting according to the opponent is called genius.”

— Sun Tzu

136. “Be neither insufficiently spirited nor over spirited. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

137. “Great results can be achieved with small forces.”

— Sun Tzu

138. “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

139. “Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”

— Sun Tzu

140. “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

141. “Before all else, be armed.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

142. “And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?”

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

143. “Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose – to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Walt Disney

145. “Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

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

— Bertolt Brecht

147. “To be the best you have to work overtime.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Conor McGregor

150. “You sleep on a win and you’ll wake up with a loss.”

— Conor McGregor