People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something -- war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope.
I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
I have not yet begun to fight.
My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive.
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains.
— Proverb
That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.