Warrior Quotes - Page 36

• The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.

  Pema Chodron

  Training, Discomfort, Relate

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

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• Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity? When we are distracted by strong emotion, do we remember that it is our path? Can we feel the emotion and breathe it into our hearts for ourselves and everyone else? If we can remember to experiment like this even occasionally, we are training as a warrior. And when we can't practice when distracted but KNOW we can't, we are still training well. Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.

  Pema Chodron

  Strong, Heart, Practice

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

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• Every man is responsible for defending every woman and every child. When the male no longer takes this role, when he no longer has the courage or feels the moral responsibility, then that society will no longer be a society where honor and virtue are esteemed. Laws and government cannot replace this personal caring and commitment. In the absence of the Warrior protector, the only way that a government can protect a society is to remove the freedom of the people. And the sons and daughters of lions become sheep.

  James Williams

  Daughter, Children, Commitment

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• Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more.

  Assata Shakur

  Oppression, Has Beens

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• I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained a lot of young people, and I've learned my lessons well. I'd like to keep the flame burning.

  Phil Woods

  Pride, Flames, People

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• If his decision is correct, he will win the battle, even if it lasts longer than expected. If his decision is wrong, he will be defeated and he will have to start all over again-only this time with more wisdom. But once he has started, a warrior of the light perseveres until the end.

  Paulo Coelho

  Encouraging, Perseverance, Winning

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• There's this whole notion of being an Indian - the idea that "warrior" is a positive description of us [Indians as native Americans]. When an Indian guy does well, he's a warrior, even now. He could be a computer salesman, but if he does well, he's a warrior. I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.

  Sherman Alexie

  War, Native American, Ideas

  "Sherman Alexie: Don’t Call Me Warrior". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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• Not that one choose to draw aside in churlish mein or vein, From common lot of what life holds of pleasure, toil or pain But that the call-s to rise and cruise alone with dreams unshared Or plan alone for some far goal, for which none else has cared Or fight alone for what you hold is worth a warrior-s strife And ask no gain or fame or aught beyond the joy of life.

  Gill Robb Wilson

  Dream, Pain, Fighting

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• Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

  Isabel Allende

  Gun, Thinking, Way

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (1999). “Conversations with Isabel Allende”, Univ of Texas Pr

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• When you spend as much time as I do with wounded warriors and their families, and terminally ill kids and their families, you are humbled and powerfully inspired by their courage and positive energy to live your life to the absolute best you can everyday. It will wake you up really fast to never stop believing.

  Ted Nugent

  Believe, Kids, Live Your Life

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• The things that can restore us have to get in, too. This is what the wisdom of an open heart is all about. All the spiritual traditions speak of this but I love the Tibetan tradition: "A spiritual warrior always has a crack in his heart because that is how the mysteries can get in."

  Mark Nepo

  Spiritual, Heart, Cracks

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• The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Active, Nonviolence, Incessantly

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance”

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• A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Leaving, Battle

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Blessed, Causes

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, North Atlantic Books

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• A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Suffering, Offensive

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.118, Courier Corporation

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• No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one eternal sunshine. From beneath that humble roof went forth the intrepid and unselfish warrior, the magistrate who knew no glory but his country's good; to that he returned, happiest when his work was done. There he lived in noble simplicity, there he died in glory and peace.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Country, Gratitude, Peace

  "A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time Vol. V". Book by Edmund Clarence Stedman and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, 1888.

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• If there was anybody I could meet that I have not met, I would say David. David from the Bible. He was a mighty man of God, and he was a warrior, and he was a worshipper.

  Donovin Darius

  Men, Man Of God, Mets

  Source: prointerviews.org

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• I believe in the old warrior's credo that "to the victor go the spoils."

  Pope Francis

  Believe, Spoil, Credo

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The mantra of independence was Satyagraha. And the warriors were Satyagrahis. The mantra of New Age India must be Swachhagrah. And the warriors will be Swachhagrahis.

  Narendra Modi

  Empowerment, Independence, Age

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• The only one who can beat me is me.

  Michael Johnson

  Motivational, Track, Beats

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• It makes me sad, sad inside, to see a warrior without his pride.

  Adam Ant

  Pride

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• It's only when movement becomes the most natural state in our lives that we can finally begin to enjoy the motion. And it's only when standing still becomes impossible that we can finally embrace the kinds of changes that are inevitable in our lives.
  We were not designed to stand still. If we were, we'd have at least three legs. We were designed to move. Our bodies are bodies that have walked across vast continents. Our bodies are bodies that have carried objects of art and war over great distances. We are no less mobile than our ancestors. We are athletes. We are warriors. We are human.

  John Bingham

  Art, War, Distance

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• If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.

  John Eldredge

  Growing Up, Boys, Men

  John Eldredge (2002). “Wild at Heart Field Manual: A Personal Guide to Discover the Secret of Your Masculine Soul”, p.134, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Where are now the warriors of the world of the spirit? Where are those who raise their voices for truth, who lead us to goodness, beauty, strength and health? Where are those who utter heartwarming words, who will lead us out of the wilderness? Our homes are gone and the nation is destroyed, yet we have no Jeremiah crying out his last sad song to the world and to posterity.

  Lu Xun

  Song, Hero, Home

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• When it is not possible to reason with holy warriors, it is necessary to immobilize them or crush them.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Crush, Reason, Holy

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