Quotes About Strength

rip our bottom out.

One would be a man alone, and alone he must fight and die, or fight and live.

but never let them think there's an end to what you have, for then you will be thrown into the worst hole they have and left to rot. There

to fight communism or a Communist to change capitalism…in fact, it's vastly less convincing. It's an over-reaction born of weakness. The strong, those who don't need to be told who they are by others, stand in the middle." Outside the cold wind moaned, and even as he talked he was wondering about that fire. Was it built for them? Or

When I awakened I was cold, colder than I had ever been before.

I cannot believe in anything else. A man needs heroes. He needs to believe in strength, nobility and courage. Otherwise we become sheep to be herded to the slaughterhouse of death. I believe this. I am a soldier. I try to fight for the right cause. Sometimes it is hard to know.

I have only strength and ingenuity, and neither trade nor land.

What a woman she is! Why, she'd make two of me!

wide-shouldered

A sword?" I was astonished. "It is a man's weapon.

if trouble comes, stand aside and watch what a woman can do!

we've got! Maybe better than all of them!" "Maybe," Deke said shortly, starting

From Caprock Rancher : Another thing Pa taught me: If you're going to fight . . . fight. Talk about it after.

fighting man. Loss Degner was bad all through and made no

The wounds had healed, but the scars would be mine forever.

traveling so far across the country with this large woman, not fat mind you, but broad in the shoulder and beam, and strong.

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.

Whenever was it easy for such a man as I? The scars I carry speak of no easy times, lad

He wasn't tough. A tough man has to win and lose. He has to come up after being knocked down, he has to have taken a few beatings, and know what it means to win the hard way. Anybody, he said dryly, can knock a man down. When you've been knocked down at least three times yourself, and then got up and floored the other man, then you can figure you're a tough hombre.

If I make one last prayer I ask that your god grant me an enemy.

The only law we have here is the law of strength. The only justice we have must live in the hearts and minds of men. The land is hard, and so the men are hard. We make mistakes, of course, but when there is a case of murder, we try to handle the murderer so he will not kill again.

Where there's no law, all the strength can't be left in the hands of the lawless, so good men use guns, too.

the town of Sentinel was becoming vital, acquiring a consciousness of the future, a sense of belonging. A strong land growing, a land which would give birth to strong sons who could build and plant and harvest. Fitz

We grew up to expect hardship and war. But a woman? I'd seen them follow their men to war, seen them seeking over battlefields to find their lonely dead, or the wounded who would die but for them. I have seen a woman pick up a man and carry him off the field to a place where he might have care.