Top 140 Warrior Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “There is timing in everything. Timing in strategy cannot be mastered without a great deal of practice.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

52. “I’ve always been a fighter. If you tell me I can’t, I’ll die trying to prove you wrong.”

— R.A. Salvatore

53. “The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.”

— Carlos Castaneda

54. “A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace.”

— Chanakya

55. “A warrior never worries about his fear.”

— Carlos Castaneda

56. “If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’”

— Rudyard Kipling

57. “Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.”

— John Eldredge

58. “SORE TODAY, STRONG TOMORROW.”

— Anonymous

59. “In any war, you put your back to mine, I put my back to yours, and let’s do what we gotta do.”

— Ray Lewis

60. “You want some? Come get some!”

— John Cena

61. “Fight and push harder for what you believe in, you’d be surprised, you are much stronger than you think.”

— Lady Gaga

62. “It’s better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.”

— Emiliano Zapata

63. “He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.”

— Socrates

64. “Stop whining. You’re not a victim. You’re a victor.”

— Eric Thomas

65. “Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.”

— Jocko Willink

66. “Never give in, never back down.”

— Andy Biersack

67. “When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.”

— Tecumseh

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

— Miyamoto Musashi

69. “Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards.”

— Marcus Luttrell

70. “A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he’s clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything.”

— Carlos Castaneda

71. “Fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.”

— Steven Pressfield

72. “A kingdom man is the kind of man that when his feet hit the floor each morning, the devil says, ‘Oh crap, he’s up!’”

— Tony Evans

73. “You should not have a favourite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

74. “A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

75. “In battle, if you make your opponent flinch, you have already won.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

76. “If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

77. “If you want to be a warrior, you have to train.”

— Denzel Washington

78. “If a man does his best, what else is there?”

— George S. Patton Jr.

79. “Why can I not fight for my country too?”

— Deborah Sampson

80. “Approach the enemy with the attitude of defeating him without delay.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

81. “If you do not control the enemy, the enemy will control you.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

82. “All warfare is based on deception. If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight and if not: split and re-evaluate.”

— Sun Tzu

83. “You do not fear... You do not falter. You do not yield.”

— Sarah J. Maas

84. “Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you. Even though you know you are going to be killed, fight till you “are killed.” Don’t die of fright. Die fighting. Don’t go down till you are knocked down.”

— Swami Vivekananda

85. “In case of doubt, push on just a little further and then keep on pushing.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

86. “You are stopping you. You are giving up instead of getting hard.”

— David Goggins

87. “Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

88. “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

89. “The wise warrior avoids the battle.”

— Sun Tzu

90. “An army marches on its stomach.”

— Napoleon

91. “Do not speak badly of yourself, for the warrior that is inside you hears your words and is lessened by them.”

— David Gemmell

92. “She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius- and she would not be afraid.”

— Sarah J. Maas

93. “You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.”

— Donald Rumsfeld

94. “Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.”

— William T. Sherman

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

— James Mattis

96. “The best form of defense is attack.”

— Carl von Clausewitz

97. “It’s harder to stay strong than it is to give up. Giving up doesn’t get you anywhere... Only makes you weak.”

— Demi Lovato

98. “The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It’s the same thing, fear, but it’s what you do with it that matters.”

— Cus D'Amato

99. “Even if you don’t win you learn. So there’s no losing. You win the fight or you learn.”

— Renzo Gracie

100. “Plan for what is difficult when it is easy, do what is great when it is small.”

— Sun Tzu