Top 140 Warrior Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Fighting Quotes

2. “To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Action Quotes, Athlete Quotes

3. “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Winning Quotes

4. “Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Goal Quotes, Action Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Winning Quotes

5. “Discipline equals freedom.”

— Jocko Willink

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes

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

— Miyamoto Musashi

Also featured in: Winning Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Struggle Quotes

7. “The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.”

— Thucydides

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Vision Quotes, Quotes About War, History Quotes

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

— Miyamoto Musashi

Also featured in: Winning Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Victory Quotes

9. “Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Famous Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes

10. “When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Military Quotes, Fighting Quotes

11. “Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Military Quotes, Quotes About War

12. “If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Fighting Quotes

13. “The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Real Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Hero Quotes

14. “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Strategy Quotes, Fighting Quotes

15. “So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Art of War Quotes

16. “Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on Discipline.”

— Jocko Willink

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Action Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Effort Quotes

17. “Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.”

— Jocko Willink

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Accountability Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Military Quotes

18. “See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Practice Quotes, Martial Arts Quotes

19. “Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Military Quotes, Quotes About War

20. “Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Military Quotes, Competition Quotes

21. “Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be total.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Military Quotes, Victory Quotes

22. “He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Victory Quotes, Quotes About War

23. “Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Adaptability Quotes, Quotes About War

24. “In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance your combat stance.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

Also featured in: Military Quotes, Martial Arts Quotes

25. “The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Quotes About War

26. “You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

27. “One must make the warrior walk his everyday walk.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

28. “No one is going to come help you. No one’s coming to save you.”

— David Goggins

Also featured in: Impossible Quotes, Truth Quotes, Quitting Quotes, Hurt Quotes

29. “It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one’s readiness to meet him; not to presume that he will not attack, but rather to make one’s self invincible.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Quotes About War

30. “Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Boldness Quotes, Resistance Quotes, Epic Quotes

31. “Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

— Carlos Castaneda

Also featured in: Obstacles Quotes

32. “The way of the Samurai is found in death.”

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

33. “Don’t stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done.”

— David Goggins

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes, Willpower Quotes

34. “Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

Also featured in: Stay Strong Quotes, Grit Quotes, Exercise Quotes

35. “Do not let your opponent see your spirit.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

36. “It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Martial Arts Quotes, Firsts Quotes

37. “Pain is weakness leaving the body.”

— United States Marine Corps

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Service Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes, Pain Quotes

38. “If you wish to control others you must first control yourself.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Focus On Yourself Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes

39. “Fortune favours the brave.”

— Latin proverb

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Courage Quotes, Action Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes

40. “I train to kill, always.”

— Nate Diaz

Also featured in: Fight Club Quotes

41. “My pain is my badge of honor.”

— Ray Lewis

42. “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

— G. Michael Hopf

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Grit Quotes, Challenges Quotes, Survival Quotes

43. “If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

44. “Do not regret what you have done.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

Also featured in: Regret Quotes

45. “Never stray from the Way.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Path Quotes

46. “I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men.”

— George R.R. Martin

Also featured in: Epic Quotes, Hero Quotes, Quotes About Fire

47. “Strength is the product of struggle; you must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t.”

— Henry Rollins

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Struggle Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Competition Quotes

48. “The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Being Strong Quotes

49. “A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does.”

— Dan Millman

Also featured in: Not Giving Up Quotes

50. “Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.”

— Miyamoto Musashi