Quotes About Strength

Nada mas natural que el insensato que ignora su locura pretenda realizar cosas superiores a su poder. El débil habla de los grandes pesos que levanta; el tímido, de los gigantes que ha vencido; el pobre, de los tesoros que maneja; el más humilde campesino se llama Júpiter.

It's a law that shared burdens are lighter, and a weight that would crush two who are alone could be borne by two united.

of steel. Fight on all occasions. Fight

O puÈ™c? fusese mult? vreme visul tân?rului. În toate ??rile unde independenÈ›a ia locul libert??ii, prima nevoie pe care orice inim? tare, orice caracter puternic o încearc? e aceea a unei arme care asigur? totdeauna atacul È™i ap?rarea È™i care, f?cându-l pe acela ce o poart? cumplit, îl face, deseori, È™i temut.

Las ideas no mueren, señor, se adormecen de vez en cuando, pero despiertan más fuertes que antes".

Non si sarebbe annoiata, grazie a Dio! Avrebbe avuto il più dolce passatempo che gli avvenimenti possano concedere a una donna della sua tempra: una bella vendetta da mettere a punto.

A vida é uma tempestade (...) Um dia você está tomando sol e no dia seguinte o mar te lança contra as rochas. O que faz de você um homem é o que você faz quando a tempestade vem.

A woman's eye can read the face of the man she loves, its every feeling of pride, its every expression of suffering; it might almost be said that Heaven has graciously granted to women, on account of their very weakness, more than it has accorded to other creatures.

Le courage est une des plus grandes séductions de l'homme sur la femme.

Rochelle vertrieben.

castramentative

Tu mais tarde não obedecerás aos teus medos.

N]ow that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done by the Americans, to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.

The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.

A nation cannot long remain strong when every man belonging to it is individually weak

There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that which is likely to endure.

No form or combination of social polity has yet been devised to make an energetic people out of a community of pusillanimous and enfeebled citizens.

In my opinion the main evil of the present democratic institutions of the United States does not arise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but from their overpowering strength; and I am not so much alarmed at the excessive liberty which reigns in that country as at the very inadequate securities which exist against tyranny.

to be a government of liberty regulated by law, with such results in the development of strength, in population, wealth, and military and commercial power, as no age had ever witnessed.

The nation, taken as a whole, will be less brilliant, less glorious, and perhaps less strong; but the majority of the citizens will enjoy a greater degree of prosperity, and the people will remain quiet, not because it despairs of amelioration, but because it is conscious of the advantages of its condition.

And now, As I come near the end of this book in which I have recorded so many considerable achievements of the Americans, if I am asked how we should account for the unusual prosperity and growing strength of this nation, I would reply that they must be attributed to the superiority of their woman.

literature became an arsenal where the poorest and the weakest could always find weapons to their hand.

There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that incites men to want all to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the small to the rank of the great; but one also encounters a depraved taste for equality in the human heart that brings the weak to want to draw the strong to their level and that reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.