The Warrior Quotes

You don't get what you want. You get what you are.

A warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next.

A warrior balances solitude and dependence.

A Warrior never accepts what is unacceptable.

Those that are the hardest to love, need it the most.

I have neither talent or taste for kingship, cousin. I am a warrior, and to dwell always in one place and live at court would weary me to death!

Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a warrior with the stain of blood in his brazen mail.

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

Being a warrior doesn't mean necessarily you need to win and succeed. It's just a spiritual condition of living a worthwhile life.

And so you're afraid of the emptiness of your friend's life. But there's no emptiness in the life of a man of knowledge, I tell you. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal.

To die with elation is a crappy way of dying... A warrior dies the hard way. His death must struggle to take him. A warrior does not give himself to it.

Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge.

A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.

I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

A warrior, on the other hand, is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. But once his calculations are over he acts. He lets go. That's abandon.

A warrior should not say something fainthearted, even casually. He should set his mind to this beforehand. Even in trifling matters the depths of one's heart can be seen.

The Four Oaths: Never be late with respect to the way of the warrior; be useful to the lord; be respectful to your parents; get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of man.

The warrior instinct comes in, the heart, determination, the will to win. Even though you're rocked you still have to fight hard, to come back.

A warrior carries his shield for the sake of the entire line.

A Warrior is always vigilant.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

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.

To get to this place of a warrior’s courage, we must give up the stories that have ruled our lives and shatter the self-image we created to affirm our story.

I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.

I had lost my mind and fallen into my heart.

We can see unmistakeably that there is an inner relationship between Zen and the warrior's life.

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.

We chose whether to be warriors or to be ordinary.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

The way of the warrior is based on humanity, love and sincerity

The warrior's gift is to willingly storm Hell that Heaven may remain unstained.

Excellent warriors are not violent.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory of it.

Rich people do not back away from problems, do not avoid problems, and do not complain about problems. Rich people are financial warriors.

So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat.

The Warrior of the light knows that when somebody wants something, the whole Universe conspires in their favor.

A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.

Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed he was not a Warrior of the Light.

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates

Before commencing battle, the Warrior of Light opens his heart and asks God to inspire him.

I'm not a big guy anyway. I'm only, what, 150 pounds? I was 190 for 'Batman,' 179 for 'Warrior.' Films make you look big.

A warrior of the Light does not rely on strength alone; he makes use of his opponent's energy, too.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back.

Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.

There is something of the warrior in me.