Being a warrior isn’t just all about fighting and defending ourselves and the people we love against danger. It also involves having a great character, integrity, honor, fighting for those who cannot fight for themselves, and sacrificing what we have for the betterment of others. You’re a warrior if you never give up during difficult times and have the courage to be yourself even when others don’t appreciate you or love you back. A warrior questions all authority and conventional wisdom that isn’t always right. As a warrior, you consider arguments and disagreements as a way to grow, gain knowledge, and learn new lessons. A warrior has self-discipline, know when to speak and when to be quiet as well.
All of us are warriors because we all live and fight for something. We don’t let our circumstances define and defeat us. In a world full of ups and downs, we remain strong not only for ourselves but for the people we love. We have to live our life with a warrior mentality because that’s the only way for us to survive and thrive. Don’t fret if you fall down once, get back up again. Warriors do not always win, but once they come back, they become stronger than they’ve never been before.
We hope these warrior quotes we prepared for you will serve as an inspiration for you to never give up no matter what life brings your way. You are a warrior; you just have to believe it.
Warrior Quotes
1. Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. She’s revolutionary; she’s a warrior. – Raquel Welch
2. I guess I’m just a natural warrior. – Camille Paglia
3. Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior. – Jon Meacham
4. With Dad, he was the ultimate wildlife warrior, and we admired him more than anything. – Bindi Irwin
5. Gen. Mattis is a warrior. What I appreciate about Gen. Mattis is he understands the principle that if you go to war, you go to war to win. – Ryan Zinke
6. Technology certainly is going faster. Dynamics on the battlefield are faster. And so, I think you do need, you know, a warrior that is adept in technology, you know, certainly skilled. – Ryan Zinke
7. Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America. – Oriana Fallaci
8. Whatever you are physically…male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy–all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside. – Cassandra Clare
9. The main courtyard was filled with warriors – mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I’d never known before.Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glow-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don’t show you stuff like that in “The Little Mermaid. – Rick Riordan
10. ‘No, I’m not really a warrior for peace. What I promote is alternative conflict resolution’. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
11. I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior. – Julie Delpy
12. My father was indeed a musician, but he was a weekend warrior. He was a welder, actually, and worked all his life at the Ironworks in Beloit Wisconsin, and he played in a swing band on weekends. – Robin Zander
13. The name ‘Amazon’ was not originally Greek; linguists believe it derived from the ancient Iranian word for ‘warrior.’ – Adrienne Mayor
14. A journalist who doesn’t bring a camera is like a warrior who doesn’t carry a sword. – Lucio Tan
15. ‘I Am Number Four’ is an action-packed adventure entwined with a romantic story. I play the role of John Smith. John wants to be a normal kid, but he is from a different planet and he has been given this destiny of becoming a warrior. – Alex Pettyfer
16. A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it. – C. J. Cherryh
17. Ultimate Warrior had a hell of a gimmick, but wrestling is about so much more than that. You have to be consistent, work main events every night and have matches that people really believe in and want to see. – Hulk Hogan
18. When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it. – Daniel Bryan
19. A journalist who doesn’t bring a camera is like a warrior who doesn’t carry a sword. – Lucio Tan
20. I had moments with my father that were exquisite – the stories he told me about Cuchulain, the mythological Irish warrior, are still magical to me. – Frank McCourt
21. My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mother rode a horse and sang in the Governor-General’s band, so that made her important as well. – Spike Milligan
22. I think that in order to be a film director, one has to be a warrior who shouldn’t be defeated by the daily onslaught of problems. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
23. I had moments with my father that were exquisite – the stories he told me about Cuchulain, the mythological Irish warrior, are still magical to me. – Frank McCourt
24. The little bit of buzz around ‘Warrior’ led to a lot of opportunities anyway, before the movie even came out. – Joel Edgerton
25. One of the first movies my dad took me to see was the original ‘Road Warrior.’ And I was kind of raised on the action movies of that era: ‘The Terminator’ and ‘Die Hard’ and, of course, all of the ‘Star Wars’ movies. – Aisha Tyler
26. I think that there is a difference between men and women as a warrior and a nurturer. It’s innate. – Judy Sheindlin
27. To me, ‘Warrior’ was a real turning point – probably one of the greatest experiences I’ve ever had as an actor on set. – Joel Edgerton
28. I’m a nomad. A Jewish road warrior. I do not have a concept of home. I wish I did. But I live with the idea that we have to get out of town before dawn. – Abbie Hoffman
29. Nicknamed ‘Mad-Dog Mattis’ by his men, he was a command warrior in the old George Patton mode. He wasn’t an armchair general by any definition of that much-maligned term. If a Marine re-upped at a location where he was present, he would personally go to that Marine and thank him or her for rejoining. – Ryan Zinke
30. 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
31. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a pro wrestler. Other kids wanted to be cops and astronauts, but I wanted to be Hulk Hogan, the Ultimate Warrior, ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage, Brutus ‘The Barber’ Beefcake, and Jake ‘The Snake.’ I wanted to be those guys! I used to tape matches on my trampoline and body-slam my brother. – Josh Segarra
32. The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people’s opinions. – Paulo Coelho
33. I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence. – Tecumseh
34. At the end of the day, Wonder Woman is a peace seeker. But when fight arrives, she can fight. She’s a warrior, and she enjoys the adrenaline of the fight. – Gal Gadot
35. A woman can be demure, lady-like and the most prim and proper character, and still have a toughness and resiliency as apparent as a superhero-type female character or a warrior or soldier type. It’s all about the story, the character, and the course of events in that piece of work and how that character is presented. – Katherine McNamara
36. There are two Mustafa Kemals: one is I, the flesh and bone Mustafa Kemal the second Mustafa Kemal I cannot describe with the word ‘I.’ That Mustafa Kemal is not I – it is ‘We.’ That Mustafa Kemal is the enlightened and warrior collectivity that is striving for the new thought, the new life, and the Great Ideal on every corner of this country. – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
37. Unfortunately, my dad had a brain tumor, and my father-in-law passed away from leukemia, so I spend a lot of time on those two causes. I also tend to support military charities like Warrior Gateway, which helps guys transition from combat back into civilian life. – Anthony Scaramucci
38. In archetypes, there is the Nurturer and the Warrior. Different kinds of strengths that, ideally, complement each other and are equally respected. – Anne Bishop
39. I started a novel back in high school. It wasn’t very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn’t too bad, and the characters were interesting. But the story was a mess, and it was full of fantasy cliches. Dwarf with an axe. Barbarian warrior. I don’t ever think I’d bother finishing that. It’s just not worth my time. – Patrick Rothfuss
40. 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
41. Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations. – Adam Driver
42. I’m a warrior for light. – Thomas Kincade
43. My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn’t mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But it’s good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable. – Joni Mitchell
44. I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr. – Muammar al-Gaddafi
45. There is something of the warrior in me. – Lech Walesa
46. As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived. – Daniel Morgan
47. I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there. – Madeleine Albright
48. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. – John F. Kennedy
49. I loved ‘Dungeons & Dragons.’ Actually, not so much the actual playing as the creation of characters and the opportunity to roll twenty-sided dice. I loved those pouches of dice Dungeon Masters would trundle around, loved choosing what I was going to be: warrior, wizard, dwarf, thief. – Michael Ian Black
50. Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day. – Thalia
51. We know their names: Hippolyta, Antiope, Thessalia. But they were long thought to be just travelers’ tales or products of the Greek storytelling imagination. A lot of scholars still argue that. But archaeology has now proven without a doubt that there really were women fitting the description that the Greeks gave us of Amazons and warrior women. – Adrienne Mayor
52. To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior’s spirit. It takes power to do that. – Carlos Castaneda
53. 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
54. There was a time when I thought I was doing a good thing with good guys for a good cause. Looking back, I think I really wanted to be a warrior. – Steven Seagal
55. I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior. – Arthur Hays Sulzberger
56. I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think. – Tom Brady
57. We train and work so hard in our sport, we would be nothing less than a warrior. Day in, day out, this is our life. It’s everything. The Olympic dream. – Kelita Zupancic
58. My dad and I used to watch ‘Ninja Warrior’ all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, ‘I could do that,’ kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious. – Kacy Catanzaro
59. I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I’ve always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it’s possible to support the warrior and be against the war. – Kris Kristofferson
60. Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He’s a warrior. He’s a hell of a warrior. – Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
61. Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He’s a warrior first and a poet second. – Ken Kesey
62. Warriors should suffer their pain silently. – Erin Hunter
63. A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does. – Dan Millman
64. 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
65. I know what I’m capable of; I am a soldier now, a warrior. I am someone to fear, not hunt. – Pittacus Lore
66. Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old. – George R.R. Martin
67. No one knows what you have been through or what your pretty little eyes have seen, but I can reassure you ~ whatever you have conquered, it shines through your mind. – Nikki Rowe
68. Even in times of trauma, we try to maintain a sense of normality until we no longer can. That, my friends, is called surviving. Not healing. We never become whole again … we are survivors. If you are here today… you are a survivor. But those of us who have made it thru hell and are still standing? We bare a different name: warriors. – Lori Goodwin
69. The Warrior of the Light is a believer. Because he believes in miracles, miracles begin to happen. Because he is sure that his thoughts can change his life, his life begins to change. Because he is certain that he will find love, love appears. – Paulo Coelho,
70. Luck?” Drizzt replied. “Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in executing the correct course of action. – R.A. Salvatore
71. And now, born from the ashes, she’s a warrior in bloodied black. – Amie Kaufman
72. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. – Confucius
73. Pain was their body’s way of telling them that they’d pushed themselves to their limits — which was exactly where they were supposed to be. – Richard Marcinko
74. You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all – the race to the egg. And now that you are a giant, why do you even doubt victory against smaller numbers and wider margins? The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved. – Suzy Kassem
75. The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind. The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has its legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone. – Steven Pressfield
76. The only reason a man should ever pick up a sword was to protect those he loved, not to willfully take the life of someone else’s beloved. – Sherrilyn Kenyon
77. Even after the stormiest weather, a true warrior will still reflect the brilliant rays of the magnificent sun through both his or her eyes. You may get hit by sudden lighting or take severe beatings from the cruel wind, but you will always get back up and stand strong on your feet again, soak in the sunlight, and be prepared to get hit by even the most merciless hail – time and time again. – Suzy Kassem
78. A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight that’s gone, that ended without him, that no feat of arms can change. – Mark Lawrence
79. You asked why the rate hate Overlanders so deeply. It is because they know one will be the warrior of the prophecy,” said Vikus. “Oh, I see,” said Gregor. “So, when’s he coming?” Vikus fixed his eyes on Gregor. “I believe he is already here. – Suzanne Collins
80. Know what you want and reach out eagerly for it. – Lailah Gifty Akita
81. Be a warrior when it comes to delivering on your ambitions. And a saint when it comes to treating people with respect, modeling generosity, and showing up with outright love. – Robin S. Sharma
82. Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior. – Carl von Clausewitz
83. Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing. – Pat Riley
84. Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. – Miyamoto Musashi
85. Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist. – Steven Seagal
86. 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
87. Wolverine is a world-weary old warrior. His rage issue notwithstanding, I see him as someone with the tortured soul of a poet, but one who has seen too many friends and lovers die. Even with that, he has grown into a leader and a true hero. – Jonathan Maberry
88. 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
89. 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
90. 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
91. There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within. – Morihei Ueshiba
92. Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn’t. – Phil Klay
93. I’m a warrior for the middle class. – Barack Obama
94. I’ve lived in many things – boats, caravans, and buses. I’ve been homeless, I’ve had no money: everything. But I believe in magic, and having a vision. The tough times made me a warrior. I work hard. – Neon Hitch
95. I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills and honour. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it’s a trend. – Virat Kohli
96. I’m kind of like a middle mix between a warrior diet and a Paleo diet, so I only eat once a day and it’s at night – so kind of like interval fasting. But I eat until I’m full, I eat as much as I want, and I really don’t eat anything that you couldn’t find, you know, 10,000 years ago. – Ronda Rousey
97. The real Amazons were long believed to be purely imaginary. They were the mythical warrior women who were the arch enemies of the ancient Greeks. Every Greek hero or champion, from Hercules to Theseus and Achilles, had to prove his mettle by fighting a powerful warrior queen. – Adrienne Mayor
98. The ADA is essential in helping me overcome the obstacles I face as a Wounded Warrior and empowers me to assist other veterans. It allows me to be physically active, have my pilot’s license, and serve in Congress. – Tammy Duckworth
99. I’m a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles. – Daniel Day-Lewis
100. 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
101. But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him. – Charles Wolfe
102. Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners when arguing with idiots. – Richard Dawkins
103. 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
104. Early, when I first started wrestling, I wanted to be a combination of Sting and the Ultimate Warrior: The Ultimate Warrior’s craziness and weird personality and Sting’s coolness and the way he carried himself to the ring. But then later on, when it came to physicality and athleticism, Shawn Michaels topped the cake. – Jeff Hardy
105. Bond is a classic archetype character, a character that’s embedded in our heads forever, one of a lone warrior setting out to avenge a nation – and you find that character across cultures. – Bruce Feirstein