"Nobody's going to fight for you as much as you fight for yourself."
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"Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?"
"Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end."
"I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked."
"If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely."
"We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong."
"If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown."
"I'm an actor for hire. It's important not to forget that you're disposable....When you have that mentality, you fight for the jobs you want."
"But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it."
"Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight."
"But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution."
"Keep faith, trust to love, fight with honor, but fight to win."
"You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it."
"I think that the best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue. For me the best way to fight against terrorism and extremism... just a simple thing: educate the next generation."
"I had learned that there were times when fighting was impossible, when the best thing to do was to wait and to learn."
"They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate."
"It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion."
"Faith, prayer, and the Word of God are the weapons God provides you with to fight spiritual battles."
"Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils."
"I fight for perfection"