Quotes About Strength

You wouldn't have a nervous breakdown. You'd give them a nervous breakdown." I forgave him for a lot when he said that. I forgave him for almost everything.

stand with Livy, who at the final hardening of Rome's republican arteries, wrote that the study of his land's history was the study of the rise and fall of moral strength, with duty and severity giving way to ambition, avarice, and license, till his fellow Romans "sank lower and lower, and finally began the downward plunge which has brought us to the present time, when we can endure neither our vices nor their cure.

Human nature is, and will always be, indelibly stamped by weakness. Indeed, we are so bound to our own defeat that it has become the means of our development.

Some relationships bust you up. Some make you.

.. Ideas are more powerful than guns.

Chinese were not simply great craftsmen and ingenious designers, they were also a deeply moral people. Ethics was their true strength, and theirs was an ethics that crucially eschewed metaphysical or theological speculation and adhered to education and conversation.

Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

ANDREW: Now, the shortest way to a man's heart is humiliation. You soon find out what he's made of.

The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.

The mind must make its own happiness; any troubles can be endured if the sufferer has resources of his own to sustain him.

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.

I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

Desde la debilidad se cede y desde la fortaleza se concede.

no lo vivirán como una cesión desde la debilidad, sino como una concesión desde la fortaleza, y quien se siente fuerte no necesita polemizar.

A modern definition of terrorism: 'the weapon of the weak, pretending to be strong'.

He looked at the gun. "Aren't you afraid?" "Of course I am," Anna said. "Of course I'm afraid. But that doesn't help." He shook his head. "No," he said, "it doesn't help to be afraid. Bad things happen anyway. You're right.

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.

ut res magis valeat quam pereat).

Eres un ser humano. Fuerte unas veces, débil otras. Como casi todos.

Se le instaló el desamparo en la voluntad.