Who said "Anything worth fighting for, is worth fighting for"?

Question

I head the quote in class, and the professor is now sick and out of the college. I quoted it a while ago and they asked who said it. Its driving me nuts. I think it was a philosopher, or a general, or actually i have no idea...

Answer 1

I think it goes "anything worth HAVING is worth fighting for"

Not sure who wrote that quote. It's one of my favorites though.

Answer 2

Why do people fight? They fight when others don't care enough, they fight for attention, maybe to prove a point or that's just the way they can express themselves. All relationships have fights. It would be a problem if one didn't, 'cause that would mean that the people in it don't care for each other. What's important is that you should learn to adjust and deal with the cause of conflict. Each one of us insists that what we think is correct, and usually don't even consider other people's point of views. People are born to think that they are right in whatever they choose to say or do. This tendency is colloquially termed as “pride.” Naturally, pride takes over and prevents us from admitting that we're wrong, even if we realize that we really are. Ego and pride are two things which can be very damaging to the other person. It happens often that just to prove that we're right, we end up hurting someone else. So before letting your ego talk, stop and think if it's really worth fighting for. Yeah, it's important to put across what you think, but it's not important to impose that on someone. If you want to fight, fight fair. Admit it when you're wrong, but don't put down the other person if they're wrong. Just point it out considerately. If you think that fighting about something won't change it, then don't, it'll just make you bitter. What matters most is, the making up part after a fight. A fight is a fight when it ends. If it goes on, it just becomes a grudge.

Answer 3

A phrase search in Google didn't work. It doesn't sound like a particularly noteworthy quote. Are you sure it wasn't just your professor's own expression or turn of phrase? Did the professor explicitly preface that phrase with something like "As John Doe once said, ..."

Is that exactly how you remember the quote? Or is that an approximation? I've looked up quotes for famous people quite often, and people often misquote or get a few words mixed around.

U.S. Novelist Margaret Mitchell once said:
"Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for ‘tis the only thing in this world that lasts.... ‘Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for—worth dying for."
http://www.bartleby.com/66/46/40046.html

Answer 4

I think that is an anonymous quote, just a truism that we all have spouted to our children over the years. I also have looked in the quote databases, and find nothing similar. I know my dad said it to me, and others did when I was young (but as "anything worth having is worth fighting for")

Answer 5

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Who said "Anything worth fighting for, is worth fighting for"?
I head the quote in class, and the professor is now sick and out of the college. I quoted it a while ago and they asked who said it. Its driving me nuts. I think it was a philosopher, or a general, or actually i have no idea...

Answer 6

I thought the saying went: "Anything worth fighting for is worth dying for."
But I could be wrong.

Answer 7

I think this quote was made up by someone in your class. This is because I looked it up for you in about five search engines and couldn't find anything. You can look on these quote searches if you wish:

http://www.quotationspage.com/search.php3

http://www.quoteland.com/

http://us.imdb.com/Search/quotes

good luck

Answer 8

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What an ignorant statement. I thought he was suppose to be a genius.

Answer 9

Yogi Berra in 1963.


(I'm just kidding, but it sounds like something he's say.)

-MM