If you’re seeking inspirational warrior quotes, then you’ll love this page. However, before we dive into them, consider this fact. There is an animating force within us that we’ve increasingly suppressed over the years. This innate and extremely valuable energy that exists within us all has been ignored, devalued, and diminished with each passing decade. Unfortunately, this animating force is none other than your fighting warrior spirit. And it’s a fighting spirit that needs to be cultivated, because we all go to battle daily — we battle with internal demons, like our struggles to get motivated, to conquer bad habits, or improve our personal lives — or our external battles, like striving to create a life, business, and career that we can be proud of.
“We Are All Warriors.”
– stephen pressfield –
In short, we are all warriors. And because we are all warriors, we need to keep our fighting spirit strong. As such, we intend to help stoke this heroic quality of yours with these motivating warrior quotes. We hope these quotes reanimate that heroic warrior spirit within you, that will help you lean into your challenges. But most importantly, we hope these Warrior Quotes guide, motivate, and better equip you to be victorious over your daily battles.
BEST WARRIOR QUOTES AND SAYINGS
1. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
2. “Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man, but soon or late the one who wins is the one who thinks he can!” – Walter D. Wintle
3. “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
4. “In the warrior’s code there’s no surrender, though his body says stop… his spirit cries, never!” – Survivor, Burning Heart
5. “Strategy is the craft of the warrior.” – Miyamoto Musashi
6. “All men are warriors and life for everything in our universe is nothing but war.” – David Zindell
7. “Every victorious warrior draws his strength from the highest source; his love.” – Tapan Ghosh
8. “Warriors want a worthy opponent. There is no redress in fighting the pathetic.” – Donna Lynn Hope
9. “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” – Sun Tzu
10. “Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.” – Karl Von Clausewitz
11. “Let your plans be dark and as impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.” – Sun Tzu
12. “Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic, but let each man bear his shield straight toward the fore-fighters, regarding his own life as hateful and holding the dark spirits of death as dear as the radiance of the sun.” – Spartan Proverb
13. “The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.” – Plutarch
14. “We choose whether to be warriors or to be ordinary.” – Carlos Castaneda
15. “Discipline is your best friend. It will take of you like nothing else can.” – Jocko Willink
16. “Victory are reserved for those warriors who are willing to pay it’s price.” – Sun Tzu
17. “You should reach the limits of virtue before you cross the border of death.” – Aristodemus, Spartan Warrior
18. “A warrior’s greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius.
19. “Rise up, warriors, take your stand at one another’s sides, our feet set wide and rooted like oaks in the ground. ‘‘…learn to love death’s ink-black shadow as much as you love the light of dawn. ‘Here is courage, mankind’s finest possession, here is the noblest prize that a young man can endeavor to win.” – Tyrtaeus, Spartan Poet
20. “He who sweats more in training bleeds less in war.” – Spartan Warrior Creed
21. “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
22. “To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead.” – Miyamoto Musashi
23. “A true warrior fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” – G.K. Chesterton
24. “You should reach the limits of virtue before you cross the border of death.” – Aristodemus, Spartan Warrior
25. “To hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.” – Miyamoto Musashi
26. “A warrior has to believe, otherwise he cannot activate his intent positively.” – Theun Mares
27. “The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win.” – Miyamoto Musashi
28. “Be a warrior, not a worrier.” – Warrior Saying
29. “But if you choose the way of the warrior, living a life of service, it will demand of you the best you have. You may not need to be great, but the world needs your greatness.” – Erwin Raphael McManus
30. “A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.” – Carlos Castaneda
Fearless Warrior Quotes
One attribute that separates a great warrior from the average is their fearlessness. A great warrior knows that being fearless is not about never being afraid, but it’s about feeling the fear, and diving in anyway. With that said, here are some powerful fearless quotes to inspire that fearless warrior that resides within you.
31. “It’s natural to feel fear. All great warriors are afraid. Only the stupid and the delusional are not.” – Rick Riordan
32. “There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within.” – Miyamoto Musashi
33. “All men die, but not all men really live.” – William Wallace
34. “But where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.” – Inazo Nitobe
35. “The warrior stands, ready to defend, ready to fight for those he serves. He is a warrior of virtue, A knight of conscience. He is who we all wish to be.” – Anthony Hincks
36. “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
37. “Fear! Fear is an aberration! Fear is the air that cowards breathe! Fear is the first taste of defeat! The Warrior only breathes the air of the brave and Warrior only feasts on the fruit of victory!” – The Ultimate Warrior
38. “Warriors should suffer their pain silently.” – Erin Hunter
39. “A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all.” – Michael Scott
40. “There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.” – N.K. Jemisin
41. “You’re a warrior. Warriors don’t give up and they don’t back down. Pick up your sword, your shield, and fight.” – Warrior Quotes
42. “A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think he has finished acting.” – Carlos Castaneda
43. “A warrior never worries about his fear.” – Carlos Castaneda
44. “To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.” – Chogyam Trungpa
45. “A warrior must only take care that his spirit is never broken.” – Shissai
46. “I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.” – Paul Watson
47. “The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.” – Steven Pressfield
48. “Warriors don’t raise to the level of expectations, they fall to the level of their training.” – Archilochu
49. “Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.” – Steven Seagal
50. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time” – Leo Tolstoy
Halfway There
Life challenges us constantly. And this goal and dream chasing stuff can make our daily battles seem all the more challenging. But the great news is, we got your back. We are here to encourage and push you forward when setbacks come your way.
With that being said, keep digesting these powerful warrior quotes. Each one consumed only strengthens and emboldens that heroic fighting spirit.
51. “The big difference between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains.” – Don Miguel Ruiz
52. “A warrior must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.” – David Gemmell
53. “Competition doesn’t scare a true warrior, it makes him better.” – Andrew Whitworth
54. “Come back with your shield, or upon it.” – Spartan Mother
55. “A fool is ‘happy’ when his cravings are satisfied. A warrior is happy without reason. That’s what makes happiness the ultimate discipline” – Dan Millman
56. “Every great warrior must learn to endure and overcome the adversities of life.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
57. “One mark of a great soldier is that a great soldier fights on his own terms or fights not at all.” – Sun Tzu
58. “Warriors know when to pick their fights.” – Sara Maa
59. “Surprise is the warrior’s greatest weapon.” – Erin Hunter
60. “The warrior fights with courage not with anger.” – Ashanti Proverb
61. “Fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.” – Steven Pressfield
62. “The wise warrior avoids the battle” – Sun Tzu
63. “Tomorrow’s victory is today’s practice.” – Chris Bradford
64. “Fate whispers to the warrior, ‘You can not withstand the storm.’ The warrior whispers back, ‘I am the storm.’” – Warrior Quote
65. “Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which he wields a sword. He will be able to fight more skillfully next time.” – Paulo Coelho
66. “A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does.” – Dan Millman
67. “Some warriors look fierce, but are mild. Some seem timid, but are vicious. Look beyond appearances; position yourself for the advantage.” – Deng Ming-Dao
68. “Silence is the warrior’s art — and meditation is his sword. With it, you’ll cut through your illusions.” – Dan Millman
69. “A cowardly man thinks he will ever live, if warfare he avoids; but old age will give him no peace, though spears may spare him.” – Havamal
70. “Come and take it.” – Leonidas
71. “A warrior must only take care that his spirit is never broken.” – Shissai
72. “Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it’s worthless.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
73. “Protecting yourself is self-defense. Protecting others is warriorship.” – Bodhi Sanders
74. “The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.” – Chogyam Trungpa
75. “When you become fully responsible for your life, you can become fully human; once you become human, you may discover what it means to be a warrior.” – Dan Millman
76. “God doesn’t give the hardest battles to his toughest soldiers, he creates the toughest soldiers through life’s hardest battles” – Warrior Saying
77. “Weapons may be carried by creatures who are evil, dishonest, violent or lazy. The true warrior is good, gentle and honest. His bravery comes from within himself; he learns to conquer his own fears and misdeeds.” – Brian Jacques
78. “You are a warrior! Built to endure. Able to conquer. Nothing can hold you down.” – Beatrice Garrett
79. “Untroubled, scornful, outrageous – that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
80. “Better to fight and fall than to live without hope.” – Volsunga
Inspirational Warrior Quotes
This next batch of warrior quotes when reflected upon will inspire and encourage you. Read them out loud, embrace them, and then allow them to unleash the courage that resides deep within you.
81. “In case of doubt, push on just a little further and then keep on pushing.” – George S. Patton
82. “Warriors do not lower themselves to the standards of other people; they live independently; according to their own standards and code of conduct.” – Bohdi Sanders
83. “Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace.” – Mercedes Lackey
84. “We are all warriors.” – Steven Pressfield
85. “The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn’t look like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, he’s going to keep digging, he’s going to keep trying to do right and make up for what’s gone before, just because that’s who he is.” – Joss Whedon
86. “A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water.” – Warrior Quotes
87. “Cowards shrink from challenges, weaklings flee from them, but warriors wink at them.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
88. “Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.” – Heraclitus
89. “During times of persistent hardship is when the warrior learns the most about his fortitude.” – Bodhi Sanders
90. “Being a warrior is an attitude!!” – Santosh Kumar
91. “Warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no on has the right to take another life. The warrior, for us, is on who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who can not provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity.” – Sitting Bull
92. “Of every one-hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are nothing but targets, nine are real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one of them is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.” – Heraclitus
93. “It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.” – Emiliano Zapata
94. “Being a warrior is not about the act of fighting. It’s about being so prepared to face a challenge and believing so strongly in the cause you are fighting for that you refuse to quit.” – Michael J. Asken
95. “A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our minds to fight that war and to win that war.” – David Goggins
96. “I am a warrior not because I always win but because I will always fight.” – Warrior Quotes
97. “Hard work, dedication, and discipline – these are the keys to becoming a successful martial artist and warrior. Without them, you will never achieve your full potential.” – Khabib Nurmagomedov
98. “The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.” – Carlos Castaneda
99. “To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.” – Criss Jami
100. “Weakness is strong. I must be stronger.” – Jocko Willink
101. “Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.” – John Milton
102. “Nothing can resist a human will that will stake its very existence on its purpose.” – Benjamin Disraeli
103. “A responsible Warrior is not someone who takes the weight of the world on his shoulders, but someone who has learned to deal with the challenges of the moment.” – Paulo Coelho
104. “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” – Aristotle
105. “I don’t know how I’m going to win, I just know I’m not going to lose.” – Gokham Saki
106. “I will either find a way or make one” – Hannibal
107. “I’ll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.” – Audie Murphy
108. “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” – George S. Patton
109. “Warriors don’t hide from their fears; they embrace them.” – Brittain Ladd
110. “It’s time to go to war with yourself.” – David Goggins
111. “You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.” – Joel Olsteen
112. “A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free.” – John Stuart Mill
113. “For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.” – Charles De Gualle
114. “What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
115. “Your mind is a battlefield, be its commander, not its soldier.” – Anonymous
116. “I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.” – Geronimo
117. “The warrior is always first a servant… The warrior does not serve because they cannot lead; they know that a person cannot lead if they do not serve.” – Erwin Raphael McManus
118. “In war, there is no substitute for victory.” – General Douglas MacArthur
119. “To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.” – George Washington
120. “There is nothing impossible to him who will try.” – Alexander The Great
121. “An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.” – Genghis Khan
122. “If you are a true warrior, competition doesn’t scare you. It makes you better.” – Andrew Whitworth
123. “Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.” – Miyamoto Musashi
124. “Be a warrior when it comes to delivering your ambitions. And a saint when it comes to treating people with respect, modeling generosity, and showing up with outright love.” – Robin Sharma
125. “Warrior poets are lovers of truth and lovers of people, and we’re defenders of both.” – John Lovell
Bonus Warrior Quote
Bonus: Want to know how to become mightier than the mightiest warrior? If your answer is yes, then you’ll want to heed the insight of this last warrior quote. It is by far one of our favorites, and we stand behind it 100%.
“He Who Conquers Himself Is The Mightiest Warrior.”
– Confucius –
Final Thoughts
There you have it, the most powerful warrior quotes and sayings ever uttered. No doubt, life is a battle. So is work, raising a family, and chasing your dreams, all of it. So, never forget, you are a warrior.
With that being said, we hope these warrior quotes have helped you reanimate your fighting spirit. To get the most out of them, bookmark the page, and come back often. Use them whenever you need a little encouragement as you take on life’s battles head on. Use them to help you WIN!
Till you reach your aims,
STRIVE
PS – If you enjoyed these warrior quotes, then you’ll probably love these Motivational Spartan Quotes, and you may even enjoy this write up about the warrior mindset and success.
