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Inspirational Fighting Quotes
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil.
If they would only expend the same
amount of energy loving their fellow men,
the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
- Helen Keller
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Philo
Fight Quotes and Sayings
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
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We have not yet begun to fight.
- John Paul Jones
Not Quotes and Sayings
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
Do not wish to be anything but what you are,
and try to be that perfectly.
- St. Francis De Sales
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake,
not by mechanical aid, but by
an infinite expectation of the dawn.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
If you can, help others;
if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I awakened. is that not a wonderful statement?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you,
opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- The Buddha
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
Knowledge of what is, does not open
the door directly to what should be.
- Albert Einstein
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Destiny is not a matter of chance,
It is a matter of choice.
It is not something to be waited for,
But rather something to be achieved.
- William Jennings Bryan
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Abundance is not something we acquire.
It is something we tune into.
- Wayne Dyer
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy,
to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter,
and to lead but not manipulate.
- William Arthur Ward
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Life is not about perfection -
or a quest for perfection.
Life is about enjoying what we have -
for as long as we have it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION -
be the hammer, not the nail.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations.
For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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