Warrior Quotes - Page 40

• I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.

  Denise Mina

  School, Men, Class

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• History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

  William Morris

  Art, Kings, People

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.32, Cambridge University Press

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• Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Meaningful, Men, Years

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings - The Bestselling, Classic Samurai Guide to Strategy”, p.52, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  War, Leader, Victory

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• I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society; Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare; and remnants of the pro-business moderates.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Party, Government, Views

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• Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.

  Tecumseh

  Country, Father, Home

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• Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Nike, Running, Golf

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.199, Pan Macmillan

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• We have an incredible warrior class in this country - people in law enforcement, intelligence - and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world.

  Brad Thor

  Country, Night, Class

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• When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Peace, Struggle

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm a warrior at heart; I'm an ex-Navy Seal. I'm too old to wage war anymore, and so now I wage it mentally. And so I find politics very stimulating; it's war without guns.

  Jesse Ventura

  War, Heart, Gun

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• The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Fighting, Honor

  William Shakespeare (1881). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, Explanatory Foot-notes, Critical Notes, and a Glossarial Index”

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• In every contest, there comes a moment that separates winning from losing. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment.

  Pat Riley

  Winning, Losing, Moments

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• Men with discrimination will be viewed as schemers; second, men with deep far-sightedness will be seen as cowards; and third, men with rough behaviour will be mistaken for real warriors. These are great errors.

  Takeda Shingen

  Real, Men, Errors

  "Ideals of the Samurai: Writings of Japanese Warriors". Book by William Scott Wilson, p. 92, 1982.

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• Wounded Warriors tell me they're not just going to walk again, they're going to run, and they're going to run marathons!

  Michelle Obama

  Running, Marathon, Walks

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• Following directly behind the bier were the servants who would, in earlier times, have been slaughtered at the graveside, along with a warrior's horse. Musicians and torchbearers came next, with the rear taken up by the mimes- sinister, silent figures in wax masks modelled on dead members of the family.

  Catharine Arnold

  Horse, Taken, Musician

  Catharine Arnold (2008). “Necropolis: London and Its Dead”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.

  Max Cleland

  War, Soul, Soldier

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• Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy’s vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans were courageously working alongside to preserve the irreplaceable best of Italy’s culture. Read it and be proud of those who were on their own front lines of a cruel war.

  Tom Brokaw

  Country, Art, War

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• I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside.

  Socrates

  Fighting, Peaceful, Battle

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• Perhaps...I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am Black, because I am a lesbian, because I am myself--a Black woman warrior poet doing my work--come to ask you, are you doing yours?

  Audre Lorde

  Black, Faces, Poet

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• The strongest of us are those that are spiritually strong, and a spiritual warrior is one of vulnerability.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Strong, Vulnerability

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• Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.

  Steve Irwin

  Future, Wildlife, Born

  Radio interview on Radio Alice (KLLC 97.3),

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• A warrior has no confusion in his mind...This is true emptiness.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Confusion, Mind, Emptiness

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• A warrior of light knows that certain impossible battles are worth fighting and so he/she is not afraid of being disappointed, knowing the power of his/her love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fighting, Knowing, Light

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  Elite warriors, when they accomplish their mission, they celebrate.

  Urban Meyer

  Celebrate, Missions, Accomplish

  Urban Meyer's Champions Press Conference, www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com. January 13, 2015.

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• It's the 50th year of Doctor Who and look what's going on! We're up in the sky and under the sea! We're running round the rings of an alien world and then a haunted house. There's new Cybermen, new Ice Warriors and a never before attempted journey to the centre of the TARDIS. And in the finale, the Doctor's greatest secret will at last be revealed! If this wasn't already our most exciting year it would be anyway!

  Steven Moffat

  Running, Journey, Sea

  "‘Doctor Who’ Premiere: Poster Of The Doctor And New Companion". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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