Muhammad Ali Quotes

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

It takes a special kind of person to fight back.

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.

Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

A man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall.

Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.

I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so profoundly love and respect humanity.

A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion.

A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

Life is not for the faint of heart.

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

I have always tried to teach my players to be fighters. When I say that, I don't mean put up your dukes and get in a fistfight over something. I'm talking about facing adversity in your life. There is not a person alive who isn't going to have some awfully bad days in their lives. I tell my players that what I mean by fighting is when your house burns down, and your wife runs off with the drummer, and you've lost your job and all the odds are against you. What are you going to do? Most people just lay down and quit. Well, I want my people to fight back.

A gentleman can live through anything.

Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.

Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.

If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with, it is enough to send him with his wreath to the memory of all future time, that he endured that hour, that day, bitterer than gall - indeed a crucifixion day - that it did not conquer him - that he unflinchingly stemmed it, and resolved to lift himself and the Union out of it.

Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep.

No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.

The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... And fight for what you believe in?

I’m still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life.