Fighting Quotes - Page 11

If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.

We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life.

We as Aboriginal people still have to fight to prove that we are straight out plain human beings, the same as everyone else. You know, I grew up, born on a government blanket under a palm tree. I lived under lantana bushes, I've seen more dinner times than I've seen dinners, I've known discrimination, I've known prejudice, I've known all of those things... but some of that is still with us... and it's got to be changed.

The commander must decide how he will fight the battle before it begins. He must then decide who he will use the military effort at his disposal to force the battle to swing the way he wishes it to go; he must make the enemy dance to his tune from the beginning and not vice versa.

My fighting gospel is T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I am never without it.

I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends... It wasn't worth it.

I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.

I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism?

The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.

The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.

What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners who are leading the fight for justice and better race relations in these crucial days

Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.

Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.

All disasters stem from us. Why is there a war? Perhaps because now and then I might be inclined to snap at my neighbour. Because I and my neighbour and everyone else do not have enough love. Yet we could fight war and all its excrescences by releasing each day, the love which is shackled inside us, and giving it a chance to live.

When there is a fight between your heart and your head, experience has taught me that the best thing you can do is pick up your Bible and remind yourself of what God says.

Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow

The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

People would see a lot of times fighting as a ugly thing, as a thing that denigrates the human being. In reality, you see fighting on everything... Everything's fighting. Doesn't matter what it is. You wake up in the morning, to get out of bed is a fight, believe it. So, fighting is actually the best thing a man can have in his soul.

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

Don't let anyone speak for you, and don't rely on others to fight for you.

The three toughest fighters I ever fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic.

Lots of people have asked me what Gracie and I did to make our marriage work. It's simple - we don't do anything. I think the trouble with a lot of people is that they work too hard at staying married. They make a business out of it. When you work too hard at a business you get tired; and when you get tired you get grouchy; and when you get grouchy you start fighting; and when you start fighting you're out of business.

Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.