50 Inspirational Warrior Quotes to Ignite Your Inner Strength

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

- Teddy Roosevelt

"A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It's in your mind. We're all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war."

- David Goggins

"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

"Dear warrior, the moment you realise that although you may have people in your corner who want you to win, you are alone in the fight ring, no one is coming to save you, so quit looking around, look inward and fight."

- Paul Bamikole

"Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior."

- Carl von Clausewitz

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently."

- Maya Angelou

"The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse."

- Carlos Castaneda

"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Being a warrior is not about the act of fighting. It’s about being so prepared to face a challenge and believing so strongly in the cause you are fighting for that you refuse to quit."

- Michael J. Asken

"Faith dissolves fear and makes us courageous."

- Stormie Omartian

"A burning brand shows the way, and each day your flame grows brighter. There is none like you, Matthias. You have the sign of greatness upon you. One day Redwall and all the land will be indebted to you. Matthias, you are a true Warrior."

- Brian Jacques

"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

"The warrior is one compelled by an inner, often insensible calling to forge an untouchable sword of discipline ... seeking to prove one's worth by pursuing adversity, and pushing against struggle, even for causes larger than one's own."

- Brian S Woods

"The greatest warrior is the one who can defeat his enemies without using weapons and without resorting to any violence!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"A man falls down seven times, but the champion rises eight."

- Kierra C.T. Banks

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."

- Emiliano Zapata

"If you're a true warrior, competition doesn't scare you. It makes you better."

- Andrew Whitworth

"I don't believe a champion is the biggest, baddest, meanest dude in the world. I think the champion is like a warrior; it's like the head knight or lead samurai: humble men of integrity, respect, and honor that treat people kindly."

- Jon Jones

"Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"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

"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

"You're a warrior or you're not."

- Royce Gracie

"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

"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

"You don’t want to be in a place where there’s no challenge. You might even quit your job if there’s no challenge. Say, ‘Well, that’s a good job. It gives you security,’ and you think, ‘God, I can’t stand this. It’s eating away at my soul. It’s all security and no challenge.’ So why do you want a challenge? Because that’s what you’re built for. You’re built to take on a maximal load, right? Because that’s what strengthens you, and you need to be strong because life is extraordinarily difficult."

- Jordan Peterson

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."

- Winston Churchill

"How you respond to the enemy of your soul determines whether his plan for your life or God’s plan for your life is realized."

- Stormie Omartian

"Good soldiers know that if they don’t recognize who their enemy is, they are destined to lose the war. That is also true for those of us who battle in God’s army."

- Stormie Omartian

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Know that we win the war when we pray in power because prayer is the battle."

- Stormie Omartian

"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 Sharma

"TODAY USE MY WARRIOR SPIRIT NOT MY WORRIER SPIRIT"

- Allan Rufus

"Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn't."

- Phil Klay

"We may be overwhelmed by it, but God isn’t. We may not see a way out, but God can. Because of Him, we can make a difference!"

- Stormie Omartian

"We always have to be in the middle of the action ‘cause we’re the warriors. And without some challenge, without some damn war to fight then the warriors might as well be dead, Stallion. Now I’m asking you — as a friend — stand by my side this one last time."

- Sylvester Stallone

"As Commander of these armies, He shows us how to take back from the enemy all he has stolen that is rightfully ours. We do that in prayer as prayer warriors!"

- Stormie Omartian

"He was dying, and there was nothing that anyone could do about it. But that was no excuse. He was a warrior. A king!"

- Brian Caswell

"Praying always means praying through things and not giving up. It means being ever-watchful and persevering in prayer in order to see breakthrough."

- Stormie Omartian

"A woman is a warrior too. But she is meant to be a warrior in a uniquely feminine way. Sometime before the sorrows of life did their best to kill it in us, most young women wanted to be a part of something grand, something important."

- John Eldredge

"‘I speak now for Gnorre Nithing because he not a man to speak for himself. He is a warrior and a viking, not a talker about firesides.’ Thorkell smiled up at him gently, ‘What right have you to speak for another man, Aun Doorback?’ he said. ‘The best right of all, Master Goldhair,’ said Aun. ‘It was my brother that Gnorre killed.‘"

- Henry Treece

"And when Thorkell came to the village, men were silent until he gave them word to speak. Even the old warriors, men who had killed bears in the high summer on the mountain tops."

- Henry Treece

"Lord of the Sun! That I should have a grandson herding sheep! I, who have been such a warrior as men speak of round the fire for a hundred winters!"

- Rosemary Sutcliff

"I grow old but I can still count the tally of my ten fingers. Two grandsons there are at the hearth fire; but a grandson at the hearth fire is not a grandson among the spear-warriors of the Tribe."

- Rosemary Sutcliff

"Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision."

- Winston S. Churchill