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Fighting On Quotes

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
- Maude Adams

It's not at all uncommon to find a person's desires compelling him to go against his reason, and to see him cursing himself and venting his passion on the source of the compulsion within him. It's as if there were two warring factions, with passion fighting on the side of reason. But I'm sure you won't claim that you had ever, in yourself or in anyone else, met a case of passion siding with his desires against the rational mind, when the rational mind prohibits resistance.
- Plato

There was splendid fighting on the part of the division on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. There was no faltering or hesitation. Each man went to work determined to carry anything in reason.
- John Buford

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
- James J Corbett

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
- Garry Kasparov

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
- Walter Kohn

5:16 I shotgun two beers, piss out the bedroom window, catcall passing girls, burp violently, put cage fighting on tv, play with myself. I feel manly again.
- Tucker Max

Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the "right side" of the war, ever heardlet alone answered?
- Kristina Mcmorris

If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.
- Galen Rowell

It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.
- J T Walsh

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