Fighting For Something Quotes

#1. He'd spent his life travelling the path of least resistance, taking the easiest of routes, searching for the quickest of solutions, and with Kate, he'd discovered more satisfaction was found in fighting for something, in striving to meet her expectations.

Lorraine Heath

#2. What is life without fighting for something or someone?

Hunter Black

#3. The truly liberated human being is not always fighting against something, but more frequently is fighting for something or someone.

Denis Waitley

#4. If you wait for everything to be just right in your life, you'll never get any happiness. You have to fight for it. And the minute you start fighting for something, you've won. The end doesn't matter.

Kate Alcott

#5. Life isn't worth living if you're not fighting for something. A lost cause is a life mission worthy of pursuit just to prove them wrong.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. She was fighting for something, she felt
alive and capable of responding to the challenges facing her.

Paulo Coelho

#7. Remember, conflict doesn't always mean we have to fight against something and tear it apart ... Conflict can also mean we're fighting for something to make it even better and stronger than it's ever been.

Lysa TerKeurst

#8. Today, valor and courage are hard to find. People are fickle, angry, resentful and selfish. It stops them from having courage and fighting for something larger than oneself.

C. Gockel

#9. Someone is always fighting for something, and they're always fighting for something better. Now, how that gets done is the true question.

Edwin Hodge

#10. Perception is real, truth is not. I'm not fighting for money and possessions. I'm fighting for something more precious. I pray that as we enter the cyber age
the Age of Transparency
the facts and the truth will out.

Imelda Marcos

#11. You can choose between being a victim of destiny or an adventurer who is fighting for something important.

Paulo Coelho

#12. I am not only fighting against something, I am fighting for something - and I am for life.

Andrea Bocelli

#13. We are never out of the woods, because we are always going to be fighting for something.

Taylor Swift

#14. Rather than fight the same tired battles that have dominated Washington for decades, it's time to try something new. Let's invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt. Let's meet our responsibility to the citizens who sent us here. Let's try common sense.

Barack Obama

#15. There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation.

Warren G. Harding

#16. Continue on the right path. You have potential ... Don't give up. Don't let yourself get down and quit studying or fighting for what you want. One day something good is bound to happen. You just have to keep at it.

Isabela Pamelli Martins

#17. If prolific is writing a lot of songs, I'm that. If it's writing a lot of good songs, I'm something else.

Five For Fighting

#18. Fight against something and you focus on the thing you hate. Fight for something and you focus on the thing you love.

Simon Sinek

#19. Fighting [in defence] is ordained for you, abhorrent as it may be to you. You may dislike something although it is good for you, or like something although it is bad for you: God knows but you do not.

Anonymous

#20. People can't measure the amount of heart you have and how much you're willing to fight for something.

Blake Griffin

#21. I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I'm all for violence. It's the only thing Americans understand.

Gore Vidal

#22. I'm just saying that if it's something or someone worth fighting for, you should fight for it. It's not called a fight because it's easy.

Jenn P. Nguyen

#23. The mission we are about is something that truly energises me. I feel that at Lockheed Martin we have the opportunity to make a difference ... supporting men and women fighting for our peace and freedom.

Marillyn Hewson

#24. Yeah of course, it's a lot of emotions, a lot of different thoughts, it's a big thing, the biggest I've done in my life so far but still it's just a fight for me, I go in there and have fun basically. I'm doing something I love to do.

Alexander Gustafsson

#25. I'm in the mood for some fighting." "If there is," Stephanie said, handing him his gun, "here's something you can use." "Ah, bless. I've missed her. Do you have bullets?" "Uh, no." Skulduggery paused. "Excellent," he said, and tucked the gun away.

Derek Landy

#26. Love makes reality invisible and no one around you can understand why you do the things you do, for something that can cause you so much pain. Because you know after all the fighting, tears, and uncertainty, it's all worth it.

Auliq Ice

#27. He said I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war, if you can tell me something worth fighting for. Oh and I'm gonna buy this place, that's what I said.
Blame it upon a rush of blood to the head

Chris Martin

#28. The path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.

Carlos Castaneda

#29. A fighting man will die without something to fight for."
"And a woman?" I asked her.
She drew in a slow breath. "Everyone needs something - someone - to fight for, Marian.

A.C. Gaughen

#30. Whatever community organization, whether it's a women's organization, or fighting for racial justice ... you will get satisfaction out of doing something to give back to the community that you never get in any other way.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#31. We waddled through life blindly, hoping to find something - and someone - worth fighting for.

Susan Dennard

#32. People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they're really proud of, that they'll fight for, sacrifice for, that they trust.

Howard Schultz

#33. For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

#34. I'm not going to blame a referee for something I feel like I should be able to control. I should get up quicker. If you want to win fights, you just have to do it, regardless of what's going on.

Sara McMann

#35. I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.

Criss Jami

#36. We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.

Ronald Reagan

#37. Trying to separate myself from my instincts of pessimism and cut out and define what it is that I really do love, what I'm here to be, why I'm here, and what I think is worth being alive for and fighting for. And those things change, but I think that that's something I am always chasing.

El-P

#38. I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna make something out of nothing. That's pretty much the American dream. So, for me, the realization that I could speak to people like that came first on a small scale. Then it just started happening. I started having this vibration.

Jay-Z

#39. If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#40. An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program they attack. People must fight for something that they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil, however bad it may be.

Ludwig Von Mises

#41. Power was unleashed by identifying that there is something worth fighting for, that there is purpose. There is a good. There is evil. And there are complexities to it, but that's the scope of who we are. What we strive to be is worthy.

Phil Szostak

#42. There are ways of fighting for your interests. I never do something in business that I wouldn't do in life.

Vladimir Potanin

#43. Somebody said something really smart: It's like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point of view. You're fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school - it's Acting 1A: 'What do you want? What's in the way?'

Annette Bening

#44. Don't expect anyone to give you anything. If you really believe in something, then fight for it ...

Damon Dash

#45. By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it ...

Vincent Van Gogh

#46. There's something very ... spiritual about fighting. It's physically very challenging. It's for killing people, after all, so it's taught me how to look at something head on. It's like living - confronting something. Everything for me came from films.

Rinko Kikuchi

#47. To get through a war, a man needs something bigger than himself to fight for.

Rick Remender

#48. Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning.

David Hackett Fischer

#49. I struggled for a long time with survivin', and no matter what, you keep finding something to fight for.

Joel Osteen

#50. I gritted my teeth for a second, fighting a smile. If there was one thing he couldn't resist, it was an opportunity to give me something.

Stephenie Meyer

#51. Many years ago, I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realized, 'I am killing him?all for the passing pleasure it brings me.' And something inside me clicked. I realized as I watched him fight for breath, that his life was as important to him as mine is to me.

Paul McCartney

#52. When I believe in something, I fight like hell for it.

Steve McQueen

#53. Donate time, food, or money to organizations that fight the good fight. We can act individually for the collective good. We can all do something.

Joy Bryant

#54. The ultimate secret to growth is finding something worth fighting for

Brendon Burchard

#55. Further, deeper still, those whose true names are for ever hidden from the world picked up the pattern of vibrations in the ether, and something akin to joy stirred in their fathomless minds. Perhaps soon they would be called upon to feed.

Marc Gascoigne

#56. Sometimes we find ourselves fighting tooth and nail for something we think we want, when, in reality, what we really want comes not from giving up, but from being wise enough to choose which battles are worth fighting.

Samantha Hartley

#57. I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered to write with me, and to be honest, it's not something I've ever really had a passion for - plus I wasn't sure I had the talent to do it!

Martina Mcbride

#58. We should build respect and understanding between the diverse cultures of the world. We should help construct communities where people of different backgrounds can live together as neighbors. Freedom is something for which we must fight, not by limiting it but by strengthening it.

Alexandra Byrne

#59. It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.

Eric Hoffer

#60. You've got your whole life to do something, And that's not very long. So why don't you give me a call When you're willing to fight For what you think is real, For what you think is right.

Ani DiFranco

#61. Often when something is going on behind the scenes and people fight for change, the fight will go on and on and on until they understand the mechanism that they're actually fighting against.

Josh Tickell

#62. If some black man go out and start something, a riot or something or, I'm not going to jump in it and get killed because he's gone out and started something I don't believe in what he's fighting for or his approach.

Muhammad Ali

#63. I'm definitely a lover, but I fight when I have to - for something or someone.

Michael B. Jordan

#64. To awaken to the living dream within one's life and
remain awake in a world trying to lull everyone to sleep involves repeated struggle, yet also presents something truly worth fighting for.

Michael Meade

#65. I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.

Abraham Polonsky

#66. That even though we've got a fight ahead of us, we've got one thing that Voldemort doesn't have. - Something worth fighting for.

J.K. Rowling

#67. The real bond and real love is something that is actually worth fighting for.

William Moseley

#68. Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Erica Jong

#69. Just make sure you're fighting for the right stuff. Don't destroy yourself for something ... someone ... who isn't going to fight just as hard for you.

Melissa Pearl

#70. We have to fight for something. It has to cost us. Our lives, our faith, have to cost us something; otherwise we're left to question its value.

Martin Sheen

#71. For a moment something struggles inside her. Then her mind empties and she surrenders. Fighting fate is too difficult. She must save herself to fight whatever fate throws up.

Michael Robotham

#72. An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for.

Bruce Springsteen

#73. I don't care who you are or what you have gone through - everyone has something they are fighting for.

Cara Castronuova

#74. Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

Ang Lee

#75. Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

Samantha Power

#76. I knew there had to be more to honor than just one's station in life. That's what Sorcha had taught me: that actions meant more than accolades. That honor was something worth fighting for- and dying for- no matter what house you were born into.

Lesley Livingston

#77. Though love is a not a fight, its something worth fighting for.

Warren Barfield

#78. Find something in your life worth fighting for

Martin Sheen

#79. He kept fighting. If you didn't have something to live for, he reasoned, you'd die. Not just to live for, but to live toward. He thought for a little while he'd live for someone else - a

Leslie Parry

#80. The world's a dangerous place; I'd rather be harmed fighting for this than from something meaningless.

Simone King

#81. There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off. A whole government of our own choice, managed by persons whom we love, revere, and can confide in, has charms in it for which men will fight.

John Adams

#82. When you have faith in something, it's your reason to be alive and to fight for it.

Katherine Dunham

#83. But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.

Larry Dixon

#84. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo ... and it's worth fighting for.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#85. What if I have nothing left to fight for? I say, my voice shaking.

"Then you fight until you find something to fight for. But the moment you stop fighting the current, the moment you surrender to it, that's when you are truly lost.

Sherry D. Ficklin

#86. This here's war, and sometimes there's casualties. You hope to God not to be one, but you go in accepting the risk. Especially if something's worth fighting for.

Denise Grover Swank

#87. In order to fight any issue, it is necessary to fight for something, not merely against something.

Ayn Rand

#88. When you really want something, you will give up a million times, but your heart keeps taking you back to the starting line.

Shannon L. Alder

#89. I've been thinking of something your father said - that the true measure of love is what one is willing to give up for it. He was talking about freedom - fighting for liberty. But I believe 'tis the same for love as war.

Laura Frantz

#90. But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.

Charles Bukowski

#91. How can you just throw yourself into this so fast?" I ask him. "We've been fighting since the day I arrived."
"Maybe I'm tired of fighting. Ironically, now I've found something worth fighting for.

Karina Halle

#92. Something changed in my heart. The hardened frost-glittering surface melted just a little to allow my feelings for Callan to blaze bright. I wouldn't be fighting for revenge or ruthless justice. This time, I'd be fighting for love and connection.

Jade Hart

#93. The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.

C.J. Cherryh

#94. If I have to take police protection in my own country from my own people, then there is something wrong with me, I'm fighting within the framework of the Indian constitution and it is not against anyone, but for everyone.

Narendra Dabholkar

#95. At the start of my career, when I used to toss and turn at night, I was fighting that feeling and wanting to go to sleep. Now I know that's normal, so I'll just get up and watch TV or something. I know it's just my subconscious mind getting ready for a game.

Sachin Tendulkar

#96. There's something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That's how 'Speed' is. He's a really focused guy with a heart of gold and the corporations are trying to crush him and use him for his skills to make them more money.

Emile Hirsch

#97. When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.

Salma Hayek

#98. If you truly love something, fight for it every day, as long as it makes you happy.

Keiynan Lonsdale

#99. I know something of the good of Moammar Gadhafi that made me to love him as a brother and to feel a great sense of loss at his assassination, He died in honor, fighting for the Libya that he believed in.

Louis Farrakhan

#100. I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

Mickey Rourke