When the going gets tough, it can be tempting to just give up. Persistent struggles in life may make you feel like there’s nothing to hold on to anymore. That’s why getting back up and deciding you want to keep fighting is never easy.
Sometimes, it even seems easier to just resign yourself to defeat, never to try again. But deep inside you know it doesn’t have to be that way. Every time you feel that there’s no more fight left in you is even more reason to keep fighting.
At the end of the day, it takes strength and determination to rise up again. Whether you’re struggling with your job, your finances, finding love, fulfilling your goal, or going through a difficult phase in your life, here are 30 fighting quotes inspiring you to never give up.
Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives. – Criss Jami
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. – George Orwell
If you can’t go back to your mother’s womb, you’d better learn to be a good fighter. – Anchee Min
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine. – Friedrich Schiller
Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it. – Rasheed Ogunlaru
Martial arts is not about fighting; it’s about building character. – Bo Bennett
I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life. – Jackie Chan
Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else’s dreams? – Tim Burton
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. – Herbert Hoover
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. – Alfred Adler
It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. – Vince Lombardi
There was no such thing as a fair fight. All vulnerabilities must be exploited. – Cary Caffrey
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. – Muhammad Ali
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. – Margaret Thatcher
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it’s made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts. – Pete Wentz
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
What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood’s a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It’s not for fighting. – Frank Herbert
It is better to die with your boots on than to live as a bootlicker. – Amit Kalantri
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. – Napoleon Hill
I think it’s odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it. – Anne Frank
The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting. – Paulette Jiles
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. – Confucius
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
Your endurance is strongly influenced by your fundamental myth about the fighting. – Toba Beta
The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people. – Cesar Chavez
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
Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting. – William Faulkner
Courage wasn’t only fighting your circumstances; sometimes making peace with your circumstances required more courage. – Sonali Dev
Share these 30 fighting quotes to inspire your loved ones who are going through something to keep fighting.