You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

[S]ometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.

Sometimes you do have to fight. Where that’s true, you should fight and win.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

A well-fought defeat is worth more than a casual victory.

When you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

You don't have to win every fight. You don't have to fight every fight. But you DO have to stand for something.

Losing fights can still be better than not fighting at all, because it empowers people, and teaches us that we can fight.

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

The fight for our freedom will take hard work. But like I always say, we like hard work. Hard work is good work! Hard work can be joyful work! And the fight for our country is always worth it. It is always worth it. To the young people who are watching, it is okay to feel sad and disappointed. But please know it's gonna be okay. On the campaign, I would often say "When we fight, we win". But here's the thing: Sometimes, the fight takes a while. That doesn't mean we won't win. The important thing is, don't ever give up. Don't ever give up, don't ever stop trying to make the world a better place. You have power! You have power. And don't you ever listen when anyone tells you something is impossible because it has never been done before. You have the capacity to do extraordinary good in the world. And so to everyone who is watching: Do not despair. This is not a time to throw up our hands, this is a time to roll up our sleeves. This is a time to organize and mobilize for the sake of freedom and justice and the future that we all know we can build together.

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed;
if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may
come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.