Quotes About Fighting Your Own Battles

#1. The only advice that I'm in the mood to give - and that I give regularly - to young people is this: fight for what you believe in. You will lose, just like I have lost, all the battles. But only one you may win. The one that you engage every morning, in front of the mirror.

Indro Montanelli

#2. I think I'm aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles.

Barry Zito

#3. Part of the problem that we have currently in the Middle East is that[Bashar] Assad has hung on to power with the very strong support of Russia and Iran and with the proxy of Hezbollah being there basically fighting his battles.

Hillary Clinton

#4. The fastest runners don't always win the race and the greatest heroes don't always win the battles. But just keep running and fighting if that's all you can do. Never lose faith. And one day, you just might attain all that you hoped for and ... more.

Jose N. Harris

#5. There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person's mind.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. None but those who have traveled, can appreciate the delight experienced from recalling in this way the interesting points of an interesting journey, and fighting, as it were, their battles over again.

James Holman

#7. When dragons attack, the only thing you should seek to stand behind is your own sword.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together an open competitive society and successful economy with a just and decent society.

Tony Blair

#9. Living to give to others, working hard for your destiny
and fighting for your dreams are the battles you will never regret no matter how long it takes.

Michael Hutchison

#10. Mr Cricket: So what are you going to do?
Rose Red: Fight like a motherfucker, of course. Fight like I've got a chance. Hell if I'm just going to roll over and show throat.

Bill Willingham

#11. It doesn't matter who started it or what it's really about ... war usually ends up sucking most for women. Even when we're not fighting the battles ourselves, we somehow always end up with the lion's share of the suffering.

Brian K. Vaughan

#12. I've lost so many battles than I can even remember. But I didn't know I was stronger than I thought.

Ufuoma Apoki

#13. Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles.

Anna Quindlen

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

Criss Jami

#15. The battles, the fights, the bruises, the bites. That's the way true love grows.

Ray Davies

#16. Fear never leaves you. It just adapts to you. And that's the meaning of strengthening a warrior spirit from within, as you can't fight all your battles with the same weapons.

Bryan Keyleader

#17. Yes, yes; you've read thousands of books but you've never tried to read your own self; you rush into your temples, into your mosques, but you have never tried to enter your own heart; futile are all your battles with the devil for you have never tried to fight your own desires.

Bulleh Shah

#18. Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.

Myrtle Reed

#19. It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.

Frederick Lenz

#20. To all the defiant stoics, laughing and fighting lonesome battles in the face of adversity.

Kin F. Kam

#21. Why does anyone fight a war? To protect a way of life, to find or support loved ones. To avenge those lost. Or maybe because it's a calling. Because someone has to. Because there's a line no enemy should be allowed to cross.

Tracy Banghart

#22. The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one battle to fight-the battle of the heart.

Anthony The Great

#23. It's strange, but once you learn to fight, you seem to attract enemies ... Sooner or later, those who master the art of combat must end up fighting.

Nahoko Uehashi

#24. 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

#25. Her feelings of fear and helplessness had reached such a pitch that they were suddenly transformed into their opposites. Having overcome them, she felt corageous and self-confident enough to tackle any power on earth; more precisely, she had ceased to worry about herself.

Michael Ende

#26. Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides.

Aleksandra Layland

#27. You'd put our parents at risk for some piece of tail?" Ghleanna demanded.
"She saved my life."
"You can fight your own battles!"
"Not when I'm knocked out on my ass!"
"You mean knocked out on your fat ass!"
"My ass, like the rest of me, is perfection!

G.A. Aiken

#28. Be kind to people and don't judge, for you do not know what demons they carry and what battles they are fighting.

Vashti Quiroz-Vega

#29. When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy

Brigham Young

#30. The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by.

Maureen Dowd

#31. We had to play the hand we were dealt, all of us. Fighting the battles we could win.

Jeaniene Frost

#32. That's why I love fighting, because I get to have a big battle every couple months to make up for the little battles I have to forfeit every day

Ronda Rousey

#33. Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles

George S. Patton

#34. I won the battles, Justin. And I won the war. And now there is no more fighting. Now there is peace. You told me to let the joy win out, and I am choosing to do that.

Jessica Park

#35. Fortes fortuna adiuvat, Marcello had said to his men. Fortune favors the brave, the bold.

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#36. There must always be those with the fire of rebellion in their blood! There must always be those who will dare to fight an unbeatable enemy! Only thus can the race of man remain strong and fearless!

Stan Lee

#37. Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#38. The Government, Church and television keep the average man so mired in petty concerns that he can no longer discern which battles are worth fighting for.

J. Nozipo Maraire