Quotes About Strength

Surprise makes brave men cowards, strong men weak, wise men fools.

Her knee caught him between the legs with pitiless accuracy, driving the wind from his chest, making him teeter for a breathless moment, then bringing him down like a sledgehammer to a house of cards. As he slid groaning to the carpet in that special, shooting agony that only a blow to the fruits can produce, it was little consolation that he had been right. His Queen was quite evidently a woman of rare and fiery passion.

Vick learned long ago that might have is a game with no winners. Few games do have winners, in the end.

A sword has a voice.

Pardon me," said Glokta, wiping his running eye with a finger, "but I spent two years in the Emperor's prisons. I daresay, if I had known I'd be there half that long at the start, I would have made a more concerted effort to kill myself. Seven hundred days, give or take, in the darkness. As close to hell, I would have thought, as a living man can go. My point is this – if you mean to upset me, you'll need more than harsh language.

Armour is part of a state of mind in which you admit the possibility of being hit

When you have a load to lift, you're better lifting than weeping.

Enough pain makes a coward of anyone.

I am First of the Magi. I am the last authority and I say . . . I am righteous.' 'You? No.' 'Yes, Ferro. Power makes all things right. That is my first law, and my last. That is the only law that I acknowledge.

Ningún camino digno de recorrer es fácil —repuso el padre Yarvi—. Cada uno de vosotros tiene puntos fuertes de los que el otro carece, puntos débiles que el otro compensa. Es algo hermoso, y muy excepcional, encontrar a alguien que… —Miró con gravedad las ramas que se movían sobre ellos, como si pensara en algo muy distante y doloroso—. Que te complete.

I despise violence. It is the last tool of feeble minds.

Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.

Solo se puede conquistar los miedos afrontándolos. Si los rehúyes, te conquistan ellos a ti.»

Strong leaders might like it when someone brings 'em a better idea, but weak ones never do.

And he realized then that he had not lost all those times in the training square because he lacked the skill, or the strength, or even a hand. He had lacked the will. And somewhere on the South Wind, somewhere in the trackless ice, somewhere in this ancient ruin, he had found it.

Suffering is what gives a man strength, my boy, just as the steel most hammered turns out the hardest." The old man winced as he squatted down beside Jezal. "Anyone can face ease and success with confidence. It is the way we face trouble and misfortune that defines us.

Say one thing for Logen Ninefingers...

Sometimes weakness is a better shield than strength,

She narrowed her eyes. "You lost the collar I gave you." It chafed. And I wasn't born to be a slave.

The trouble with being able to lift heavy things is that when heavy things need lifting folk step out of the way and smile at you. He'd done some tough jobs to earn a crust for him

Oftentimes,' murmured Whirrun, 'a man's better served embracing his pain than trying to escape it. Things are smaller when you face 'em.

I am ready to die, but I refuse to lose.

An excessive and a brutal act, but better to act with too much force than too little. Better to be held in fear, than in contempt... There is no place for sentiment in politics.

Well don't just hit 'em, you lazy bastards!" he shouted in a broken voice. "Pull 'em!