Fighting
Quotes - You will never be a hero
“In
a fair fight, the don's man would almost certainly paint the walls with Locke
and Calo's blood, so it stood to reason that this fight would have to be as
unfair as possible.”
―
Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora
“You
will never be a hero. You were never meant to be a hero."
Hero.
that one word made Aru lift her chin. It made her think of Mini and Boo, her
mom, and all the incredible things she herself had done in just nine days.
Breaking the lamp hadn't been heroic... but everything else? Fighting for
people she cared about and doing everything it took to fix her mistake? That
was heroism.
Vajra
became a spear in her hand.
"I
already am. And it's heroine.”
―
Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time
“I
appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to
fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will
never kill it by its indifferent adoption.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography
“Love
is not running away or giving up, it is standing and fighting for every
moment.”
―
M.F. Moonzajer
“Your
opponent's wrong doesn't automatically make you right. Most fights aren't about
who's right; they are contention over degrees of wrongness.”
―
Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry
for Every Day of the Year
“Sometime,
somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.”
―
Rachel Caine , Lord of Misrule
“The
thing about learning how to fight is that— some of us are not born with that
desire. They say some are born fighters; but they don't usually point out that
others just aren't. Some of us are forced by life to take up arms and fight.
Many of us are. The art lies in knowing when to wield those arms and when to
put them down. I don't think it's a matter of pretending to be ideally unharmed
by life and untouched by darkness; because that is hypocrisy. Rather, I think
it is a matter of being true to your truth and learning when to fight and
learning when to be soft. Hopefully, our soft moments in life will largely
outweigh, outrank, and outrun our fighting.”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“Fight
only in direst need
Not
for lust or petty greed
Honor
those that do give birth
Respect
them well for their full worth”
―
Anne McCaffrey, Dragon Harper
“Fights
begin and end with handshakes.”
―
Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
“Always
walk away from a fight. Then ambush.”
―
Tim Dorsey, Gator A-Go-Go
“Wraith
snorted. "Cowards. Seriously. Who brings a gun to a knife fight? That's
cheating."
"You
don't have a gun?" Kynan asked.
Wraith
made a face of digust. "It's not very sporting to shoot people."
"So
you're saying that you didn't shoot the people who shot you?"
"Hell,
yeah, I shot them.”
―
Larissa Ione, Desire Unchained
“Courage
wasn't only fighting your circumstances; sometimes making peace with your
circumstances required more courage.”
―
Sonali Dev, A Distant Heart
“Growing
up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a
fighter pilot, a covert agent, professions that require a great deal of bravery
and risk and putting oneself in grave danger in order to complete the mission.
Even though I did not become all those things, and unless my predisposition, in
its youngest years, already had me leaning towards them, the interest that was
there still shaped my philosophies. To this day I honor risk and sacrifice for
the good of others - my views on life and love are heavily influenced by this.”
―
Criss Jami, Healology
“We
need to be fit and ready for anything that might come our way.”
―
Aaron B. Powell, Doomsday Diaries
“I
will give you a few guarantees of my own, Mukthar. I guarantee that before the
sun sets, even if you win, even if my cold, dead body is lying on the field,
you will rue the day you ever set foot in the Plains. For every inch you
advance I'll exact gallons of Mukthar blood. I guarantee that there will be not
one family of the Bear Mukthars or they will mourn at least one of theirs. I
guarantee that even if you are triumphant the fruits of victory will taste like
dust in your mouth. I guarantee that if you fail to kill me today, you will
meet me again. You will meet me at the Ximerionian border. You will meet me at
every city, town, village, and hamlet. You will meet me on every Amirathan
crossroad, on every hill. I will fight you with every sword at my command, with
every arrow, with every dagger. I will fight you with pitchforks. I will fight
you with the very rocks of the land you try to conquer. I will never, never,
never give up.
~Anaxantis,
before the Battle of the Zinchara (May 29th, 1453 aed)”
―
Andrew Ashling, The Invisible Chains - Part 3: Bonds of Blood
“The
only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among
ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we
get.”
―
Robert Buettner, Overkill
“I
have found that battling despair does not mean closing my eyes to the enormity
of the tasks of effecting change, nor ignoring the strength and the barbarity
of the forces aligned against us. It means teaching, surviving and fighting
with the most important resource I have, myself, and taking joy in that battle.
It means, for me, recognizing the enemy outside and the enemy within, and
knowing that my work is part of a continuum of women’s work, of reclaiming this
earth and our power, and knowing that this work did not begin with my birth nor
will it end with my death. And it means knowing that within this continuum, my
life and my love and my work has particular power and meaning relative to
others.”
―
Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
