Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope Francis

We all need to improve, to change for the better. Lent helps us fight against our faults.

Mike Pence

Conservative Republicans are back. We're in the fight for fiscal discipline and limited government, and we are on the side of the American people.

Nathaniel Buzolic

To those that feel down and out…Let today be the day you stand up & fight. Let today be the day you say I won’t quit.

Nathaniel Branden

Your life is important. Whether you achieve what you want in life matters. Whether you are happy matters. Honor and fight for your highest potential. Self-realizatio n-the realization of the best within you-is the noblest goal of your existence.

Nathaniel Branden

Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of the misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves-their convictions and their aspirations-every day. There is nothing noble about it. It takes far more courage to fight for your values than to relinquish them.

Nathaniel Branden

In the nature of our existence, we must act to achieve values. And in order to act appropriately, we need to value the beneficiary of our actions. In order to seek values, we must consider ourselves worthy of enjoying them. In order to fight for our happiness, we must consider ourselves worthy of happiness.

Mother Jones

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.

Mother Jones

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men

Mother Jones

No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike!

Mother Jones

I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression. My address is like my shoes; it travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Mother Jones

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me

Mother Jones

Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living

Victor Hugo

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

Victor Hugo

Those who live are those who fight.

Veronica Roth

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.

Veronica Roth

Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope.

Veronica Roth

But Christina and I are not people who cry together; we're people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in.

Veronica Roth

Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, its facing the death you know is coming.

Richard Bach

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!

Richard Bach

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even get the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth... we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome...

Robert Frost

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Rita Mae Brown

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Rick Larsen

And we need to maintain our foothold in the fight against terrorism and terrorist groups and respond to any degradation of Iraqi security or stability.

Thomas Huxley

I wish you would let an old man, who has had his share of fighting, remind you that battles, like hypotheses, are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

Timothy Garton Ash

Russia has lost an empire but not yet found a role. Russia has to decide what it wants to be. And as we know in Britain, that takes some time. It is quite tough to lose an empire and Russia lost its empire very rapidly and very admirably, that is to say peacefully, it didn't fight.

Thomas Sankara

Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail . We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on earth to rule all of humanity.

Robert Klein

But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working.

Robert Kiyosaki

Don't stop trying, learning, fighting, experimenting, doing, until the miracle happens.

Robert Harris

That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.

Saul Bellow

Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.

Saul Bellow

You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

Saul Alinsky

In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.

Sarah Dessen

I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous...