Top 200 Fighting Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.”

— Muhammad Ali

152. “Do not engage an enemy more powerful than you. And if it is unavoidable and you do have to engage, then make sure you engage it on your terms, not on your enemy’s terms.”

— Sun Tzu

153. “By any means necessary.”

— Malcolm X

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

— John Steinbeck

155. “Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.”

— Suzy Kassem

156. “What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

157. “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

158. “Real champions fight through adversity.”

— Conor McGregor

159. “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

160. “Enemies strike at weak points.”

— Chanakya

161. “It is far better to live like a lion for a day than to live like a jackal for a hundred years.”

— Tipu Sultan

162. “Determine that today you will overcome your self of the day before, tomorrow you will win over those of lesser skill, and later you will win over those of greater skill.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

163. “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

164. “I have not yet begun to fight!”

— John Paul Jones

165. “If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; whereas death is certain if you cling to your corner.”

— Sun Tzu

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

167. “Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life.”

— T.D. Jakes

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

— Dan Millman

169. “Freedom is not given – it is taken.”

— Subhas Chandra Bose

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

— Sun Tzu

171. “I work hard and fight easy.”

— Conor McGregor

172. “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

173. “My success isn’t a result of arrogance. It’s a result of belief.”

— Conor McGregor

174. “There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”

— Ernest Hemingway

175. “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

176. “You win battles by knowing the enemy’s timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

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

— Joel Osteen

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

— Socrates

179. “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

180. “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

181. “In large-scale strategy, it is beneficial to strike at the corners of the enemy’s force. If the corners are overthrown, the spirit of the whole body will be overthrown.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

182. “If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.”

— John Lewis

183. “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

184. “True warriors are fierce because their training is fierce.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

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

— Robin Williams

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

— Plato

187. “I don’t worry about my opponent or their game, I worry about my game.”

— Conor McGregor

188. “You never lose until you actually give up.”

— Mike Tyson

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

190. “It’s the lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.”

— Muhammad Ali

191. “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

192. “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

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

— Johnny Cash

194. “I never back down and I never quit!”

— John Cena

195. “I’d rather die like a man, than live like a coward.”

— Tupac Shakur

196. “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

197. “Fixed formation is bad. Study this well.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

198. “On my worst day, I'll train for two hours. I don't have hobbies.”

— Nate Diaz

199. “I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”

— Malcolm X

200. “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

— Elie Wiesel