Fight Quotes - page 2

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too. (Paul Robeson)
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive. View quote
Edith Wharton
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
lf you ever dare to fight against hatred, then there is but one weapon: Love. View quote
Sri Chinmoy
Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people. View quote
Boris Yeltsin
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. View quote
Herbert Hoover
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight. View quote
Bob Marley
Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. View quote
Chief Joseph
If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting. View quote
Horatio Nelson
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. (Sun Tzu)
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. View quote
Thomas Paine
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. View quote
William Hazlitt
PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness. View quote
Beatrice Arthur
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success. View quote
Erwin Rommel
It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory. View quote
George C. Marshall
There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort. View quote
Norman Borlaug
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. View quote
Alexander Pope
I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and have never seen the day when I did not pray for them. View quote
Robert E. Lee
He who flees will fight again. View quote
Tertullian
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. (William Morris)
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against. View quote
Vanessa L. Williams
I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet. View quote
George Foreman
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis