Quotes About Strength

Your Gods and my Gods—do you or I know which are the stronger? —Native Proverb.

Celé umÄ›ní tkví v tom, neukazovat se proti obzoru, jinak po tobÄ› stÃ…â"¢elí. ZapiÅ¡ si to za uÅ¡i, chlap?e. TÃ…â"¢eba míli si zajdi, jenom z?sta? schován.

color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle

There is no one to touch Jane when you're in a tight place.

Rudyard Kipling

Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone, to young black three-year-olds who thought they could. The Lone Wolf had led them for a year now. He had fallen twice into a wolf-trap in his youth, and once he had been beaten and left for dead; so he knew the manners and customs of men.

He ate and he drank. Drink deep, Shere Khan, for when wilt thou drink again? Sleep and dream of the kill.

Bring up the great bull-buffaloes, the blue-skinned herd-bulls with the angry eyes. Drive them to and fro as I order.

Of course, Kaa could have crushed a dozen Mowglis if he had let himself go; but he played carefully, and never loosed one-tenth of his power. Ever since Mowgli was strong enough to endure a little rough handling, Kaa had taught him this game, and it suppled his limbs as nothing else could.

Ow! He is there. Ahoo! He is there. Under the feet of Rama lies the Lame One! Up, Shere Khan! Up and kill! Here is meat; break the necks of the bulls!

Hsh! He is asleep. We will not wake him, for his strength is very great. The kites have come down to see it. The black ants have come up to know it. There is a great assembly in his honor.

I am two Mowglis, but the hide of Shere Khan is under my feet.

A brave heart and a courteous tongue, said he. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.

Remember, Mother, it is always the seventh wave that goes farthest up the beach.

Rudyard Kipling

You mustn't swim till you're six weeks old, Or your head will be sunk by your heels; And summer gales and Killer Whales Are bad for baby seals. Are bad for baby seals, dear rat, As bad as bad can be; But splash and grow strong, And you can't be wrong. Child of the Open Sea!

Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth!

As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back-- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

Anything from Kipling

But the Woman that God gave him, every fibre of her frame Proves her launched for one sole issue, armed and engined for the same; And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail, The female of the species must be deadlier than the male.

Though I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!

Please, body, hold fast until I can complete my final task.- Sango

I am not like Kagura! I'm not Naraku's tool! I am my own master!- Hakudoshi

Kagome...the light...the light will kill Naraku.- Kanna