Fighting Proverbs
Sayings about Fighting
Fighting for your country glorifies death. ~ Russian ProverbIn a fight the rich man tries to save his face, the poor man his coat. ~ Russian Proverb
A good run is better than a bad fight. ~ Polish Proverb
When there is no enemy it is safe to fight. ~ German Proverb
The soldiers fight, and the kings are heroes. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Those who fight with silver spears are sure of their victory. ~ Greek Proverbs
Thirty-six plans of how to win the battle are not as good as one plan to withdraw from the fight. ~ Japanese Proverb
The person who is cornered will fight. ~ Afghani Proverb
The mediator in a fight gets all the blows. ~ Iranian Proverb
The lawyer will extend the frontiers of a fight. ~ Japanese Proverb
Pray once if you are going to fight, pray twice if you are going to sail, and pray thrice if you are going to get married. ~ Polish Proverb
It is no use cutting a stick when the fight is over. ~ Japanese Proverb
If you want an audience, start a fight. ~ Chinese Proverb
When the healthy dog fights with a mad dog, it is the ears of the healthy one that are bitten off. ~ Myanmar Proverb
When the big fish fight the shrimps must lie low. ~ Creole Proverb (Southern U.S.)
When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers. ~ Kikuyu Proverb
When a miller fights with a chimney sweep, the miller gets black and the chimney sweep gets white. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Sit atop the mountain and watch the tigers fight. ~ Chinese Proverb
One cannot part two fighting bulls. ~ Wolof Proverb
Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart. ~ Traditional Proverb
Many people would rather fight for their principles than live up to them. ~ Saying
It's better to pick a fight with your in-laws than with your neighbors. ~ Indian Proverbs
They who fight with golden weapons are pretty sure to prove they are right. ~ Dutch Proverb
The house roof fights the rain, but he who is sheltered ignores it. ~ Nigerian Proverb
If you are going out for a fight leave your best hat at home. ~ Japanese Proverb
If we don't fight we remain equals, if we do fight then one of us wins. ~ Malagasy Proverb
If the fight is tomorrow, then why should you clench your fist today? ~ Cameroon Proverb
He that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day. ~ Traditional Proverb
He is truly hungry who accepts defeat in a fight over meat. ~ Malagasy Proverb
He fights with spirit as well as with the sword. ~ Latin Proverb
Fight fire with fire. ~ Traditional Proverb
Fight a wolf with a flex stalk. ~ Chinese Proverb
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord and it makes you miss him. ~ Irish Proverb
Dogs that always fight always have bleeding ears. ~ French Proverb
Be first at the feast, and last at the fight. ~ American Indian Proverb
An Irishman is never at his best except when fighting. ~ Irish Proverb
An egg does not fight a rock. ~ Malagasy Proverb
After the fight both parties give each other a good smack. ~ Japanese Proverb
Advising is often better than fighting. ~ German Proverb
A husband and wife often fight intensely at one moment and then kiss intensely at the next moment. ~ Taiwanese Proverb
A hundred men can sit together quietly but when two dogs get together there will be a fight. ~ Kurdish Proverb
A fight in your neighbor's house is refreshing. ~ Indian Proverb
A a good run is better than a bad fight. ~ Irish Proverb
Quotations about Fighting
When I'm in a bout and I stop fighting to win and start fighting not to lose, I'm almost guaranteed to lose because I quit taking chances. ~ Kelly WilliamsWe fight, get beat, rise, and fight again. ~ Nathanael Greene
Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life -- but what we do about what happens to us. ~ George Allen
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. ~ Hermione Gingold
Women and men have to fight together to change society -- and both will benefit. ~ Muriel Fox
Tell me what is right and I will fight for it. ~ Woodrow Wilson
Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself. ~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? ~ George Carlin
It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. ~ Adlai E. Stevenson
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ~ Margaret Thatcher
You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. ~ Malcolm X
Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. ~ B.C. Forbes
When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him. ~ Mike Tyson
To fight fear, act. To increase fear -- wait, put off postpone. ~ David J. Schwartz
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. ~ Elbert Hubbard
That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms. ~ George Bernard Shaw
When we talk about fighting for our country, we’re talking about our vote, our vote is our arms. ~ Sarah Palin
To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu
The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries. ~ Francis Picabia
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. ~ Doug Larson
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die. ~ John Lennon
Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end. ~ Robert Herrick
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't. ~ Rodney Dangerfield
Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter of him. ~ Louis L'Amour
I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it. ~ Mike Tyson
No battle is worth fighting except the last one. ~ John Enoch Powell
I never fight, except against difficulties. ~ Helen Keller
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. ~ George Orwell
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. ~ Thomas Paine
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause. ~ John Dryden
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again. ~ Oliver Goldsmith
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. ~ Alexandre (the Younger) Dumas
He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious. ~ Sun Tzu
You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it. ~ Louis L'Amour
Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~ Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros
If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win. ~ Aeschylus
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. ~ Abigail Van Buren
You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round. ~ James J. Corbett
There is nothing I love as much as a good fight. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve. ~ George Allen
Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed. ~ Margaret Mitchell
We are twice armed if we fight with faith. ~ Plato
Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate. ~ Larry David
You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth. ~ Henrik Ibsen
There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. ~ Woodrow T. Wilson
Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning. ~ George Eliot
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. ~ Herbert Clark Hoover
Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. ~ Erwin Rommel
It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog. ~ Mark Twain
You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. ~ Elia Kazan
Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster. ~ Sun Tzu
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Women are allowed more freedoms and we’re fighting for more freedoms, we’re experiencing more freedoms won. ~ Pam Grier
In the fight between you and the world, back the world. ~ Franz Kafka
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth. ~ Thomas J. Jackson
The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil. ~ Ruth Benedict
I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day. ~ Mike Tyson
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. ~ Napoleon Hill
One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight. ~ Mike Tyson
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. ~ Henrik Ibsen
He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. ~ Blaise Pascal
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. ~ Eugene V. Debs
We'd like to fight but we fear defeat, we'd like to work but we're feeling too weak, we'd like to be sick but we'd get the sack, we'd like to behave, we'd like to believe, we'd like to love, but we've lost the knack. ~ Cecil Day Lewis
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight. ~ Phyllis Diller
Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. ~ William Butler Yeats
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill
Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu
One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap. ~ Ida B. Wells
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive. ~ Donald Trump
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. ~ Robert Browning
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose. ~ Robin Williams
Better to fight for something than live for nothing. ~ George S. Patton
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight. ~ Bob Marley
When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country’s interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety.~ Byron Dorgan
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
You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side. ~ William Gladstone
We shall live to fight again, and to strike another blow. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored. Better to die than to live in slavery. ~ Emmeline Pankhurst
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. ~ Abraham Lincoln
There is a time for all things; a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away; there is a time to fight, and that time has come! ~ General Peter Muhlenberg
If you can't fight, and you can't flee, flow. ~ Robert Eliot
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way. ~ Arthur Miller
Peace we want because there is another war to fight: against poverty and disease. ~ Indira Gandhi
The world is a fine place worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. ~ Ernest Hemingway
A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins. ~ Heywood Broun
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul. ~ David O. McKay
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine. ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Don't fight forces, use them. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. ~ Samuel Butler
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation. ~ Tom Wilson
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. ~ Thomas Mann
You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back. ~ Jon English
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~ e. e. cummings
A fighter has to know fear. ~ Cus D'Amato
