Quotes About Strength

Yet moaning and wailing was not my way. I had never complained, for who cares for complaints? If something is wrong, one does something.

It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy.

They tell us, Sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be next week? Will it be next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed and a guard stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Sir, we are not weak if we make proper use of those means which the God of nature has placed in our power.

Folks in the wagon train figured Ma would turn back, but they hadn't known Ma so long as I had. Once she set her mind to something she wasn't about to quit.

This was a big country needing big men and women to live in it, and there was no place out here for the frightened or the mean.

He was the only man she had ever known who made her feel protected. He made her feel safe, secure. And the feeling was strange to her.

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone. Perhaps

Never let them know how you feel or what you are thinking. If they know how you feel they know how to hurt you, and if they hurt you once, they will try again.

The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to mind is yours forever.

Many a small man is considered good while he remains small, but let power come to him, and he becomes a raging fury.

Shut up!" Joe's tone was ugly. "If you ain't willing to try, you can go to hell.

up, his features stern with disapproval. "I

It takes a mighty fine discipline to hold men together when trouble is creeping up on you. Yet without discipline there is surely disaster. The best discipline comes from within a man, but you'll never get a party of men together where all have it. This

told himself. He might

tawny-headed man

His horse was big and strong and fast.

You would be wise he agreed, To go to Cordoba or Toledo. The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is forever.

It was better to live one day as a lion, than a dozen years as a sheep.

the way of men. One fights one's battles alone, not asking mercy nor expecting help.

No matter what happened here, what I was going to do was important. Maybe not for this town, but for men everywhere, for there must be right. Strength never made right, and it is an indecency when it is allowed to breed corruption.

supreme test of all he would endure, without complaint

It is well for men to risk dangers, for we have broad backs to bear the blows, but I marvel at the courage of women who go with us, and must think of bearing children alone, and in a far place.

He had seemed huge and fat. He was all of that, but he was also a man of unbelievable strength. His

What man would not want such a woman? Not one to follow only, but to stand beside him during the dark days, to work with him, plan with him, share with him, making their life a whole thing together.