Warrior Quotes - Page 30

• Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

  Voltaire

  Spiritual, Women, Learning

  Dictionnaire Philosophique "Women" (1764)

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• I'm different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way. But I have had some success; I hope I have touched the lives of some wonderful people, all by being what I see as myself but some others people see as different.

  Johnny Weir

  People, Different, Way

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• The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Brave, Should, Wells

  Chogyam Trungpa (2009). “Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior”, p.37, Shambhala Publications

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• It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end. Let whoever can win glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark.

  Seamus Heaney

  Mean, Winning, Dear Ones

  Seamus Heaney (2009). “Beowulf”, p.10, Faber & Faber

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• War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  War, Arrows, Towers

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.656, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right.

  Paulo Coelho

  Regret, Thinking, Past

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 16, 2016

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• A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Respect, Courage

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent.

  Paulo Coelho

  Light, Opponents, Resorts

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• Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Mean, Reality, Imagination

  Eduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage (1988). “Century of the Wind”, Pantheon Books

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• Warriors fear surrender. They are proud and defiant. They will fight to the death for what they believe in. They will struggle to conquer. Love is not about conquest. The truth is a man can only find true love when he surrenders to it. When he opens his heart to the partner of his soul and says: 'here it is! the very essence of me! It is yours to nurture or destroy.

  David Gemmell

  Believe, Struggle, Heart

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• 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 skilfullly next time.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fighting, Skills, Suffering

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• That's why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. (I make up this strange, angry packet for you, threaded with love.) I think you thought there was no such place for you, and perhaps there was none then, and perhaps there is none now; but we will have to make it, we who want an end to suffering, who want to change the laws of history, if we are not to give ourselves away.

  Adrienne Rich

  Responsibility, Thinking, Should Have

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Don't be afraid of StarClan. They will understand about Brokentail. You will be honored by our warrior ancestors for your loyalty toy your Clanmates and for your endless courage. So many cats owe their lives to you. Cinderpelt would have died after her accident if you hadn't tended to her. And when there was greencough, you fought day and night.

  Erin Hunter

  Loyalty, Cat, Night

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• Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kids, Would Be, Littles

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.74, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in excuting the correct course of action.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Good Luck, Gains, Action

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “The Halfling's Gem: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.62, Wizards of the Coast

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• Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was.

  D. J. MacHale

  Witty, Kids, Leader

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• Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.

  Homer

  Dies, Huge

  Homer (2012). “The Iliad”, p.259, Courier Corporation

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• Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames -- a king, before, but now A beaten warrior. None of his comrades Came to him, helped him, his brave and noble Followers; they ran for their lives, fled Deep in a wood. And only one of them Remained, stood there, miserable, remembering, As a good man must, what kinship should mean.

  Burton Raffel

  Kings, Mean, Men

  Burton Raffel, Robert Payson Creed (1963). “Beowulf: A New Translation with an Introduction”

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• When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.

  Chief Seattle

  Inspirational, Life, Native American

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• So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68)

  Pema Chodron

  Loneliness, Journey, Yesterday

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• The warrior is Here, Now.

  Dan Millman

  Dan Millman (2000). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives”, p.164, H J Kramer

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• Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'.

  Shannon Hale

  Girl, Helping, Legion

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.257, A&C Black

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• Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Character, Men, Average

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Power of Silence”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

  Adrienne Rich

  Inspirational, Down And, Stills

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your life - the life we make together. Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me like a warrior, sweat up to your earlobes and all your hope between your teeth. Love me so I know I am at least as important as anything you have ever wanted.

  Dorothy Allison

  Heart, Turtles, Ice

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