The warrior acts, the fool reacts.
It’s harder to stay strong than it is to give up. Giving up doesn’t get you anywhere... Only makes you weak.
Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it’s worthless.
Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.
If a man does his best, what else is there?
In case of doubt, push on just a little further and then keep on pushing.
Duty is the essence of manhood.
The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.
Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!
Fight and push harder for what you believe in, you’d be surprised, you are much stronger than you think.
An army marches on its stomach.
A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, “As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it.”
Come back with your shield – or on it.
Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you. Even though you know you are going to be killed, fight till you “are killed.” Don’t die of fright. Die fighting. Don’t go down till you are knocked down.
A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai: if by setting one’s heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way. his whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.
I train to kill, always.
I don’t feel negative emotions. I feel calm, composed and ready. And as it goes on I get better at it. By the time the fight is on, I don’t feel any emotions at all.
When you stop fighting, that’s death.
I’ve always been a fighter. If you tell me I can’t, I’ll die trying to prove you wrong.