Warrior Quotes

Warrior Quotes & Sayings

These warrior quotes and warrior sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? Healers, not procurers? Healers, not hired guns? - Warren Earl


Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. (The Art of War) - Sun Tzu


What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. (His last words) - Crowfoot


Labour not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was coming; so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. - Akhenaton


There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this. - Miyamoto Musashi


Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. (The Book of Five Rings) - Miyamoto Musashi


Therefore the victories of good warriors are not noted for cleverness or bravery. Therefore their victories in battle are not flukes. Their victories are not flukes because they position themselves where they will surely win, prevailing over those who have already lost. (The Art of War) - Sun Tzu


He loved the twilight that surrounds The border-land of old romance; Where glitter hauberk, helm, and lance, And banner waves, and trumpet sounds, And ladies ride with hawk on wrist, And mighty warriors sweep along, Magnified by the purple mist, The dusk of centuries and of song. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges. - Alistair Cooke