Powerful Quotes from Great Warriors
A true warrior is someone who is able to overcome fear and risk it all in the service of others. They sacrifice personal comfort in the pursuit of making themselves better. They follow a code of conduct and pursue honor rather than material possessions.
Powerful quotes from great warriors throughout history. By taking on their wisdom we too can live our lives as courageously and heroically as they did.
“There has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it.”
Alexander the Great
“To hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.”
Miyamoto Musashi (Japanese Swordsman 1584-1645)
“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within.”
Miyamoto Musashi
“But where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.”
Lnazo Nitobe (Author of Bushido)
“Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power I’ll live a lie.”
Miyamoto Musashi
“It may seem difficult at first but everything is difficult at first.”
Miyamoto Musashi
“Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a great thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting Fame.”
Alexander the Great
“A warrior must only take care that his spirit is never broken.”
“Determined that today you will overcome yourself of the day before, tomorrow you will win over those of lesser skill, and later you will win over those of greater skill.”
Miyamoto Musashi
‘Sweat more during peace: bleed less during war.”
Sun Tzu
“I fear not the man who was practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
Bruce Lee
“The successful warrior is the average man with laser-like focus.”
Bruce Lee
“You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature–the place nothing so high that it is out of the reach of Industry and valor.”
Jocko Willink
“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”
Alexander the Great
“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
“With the right attitude, self-imposed limitations vanish.”
Alexander the Great
‘Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
Bruce Lee
“To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already.”
Miyamoto Musashi
“He who has never suffered will not sufficiently temper his character.”
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
“All men died, but not all men really live.”
William Wallace