Quotes About Strength

We ended up our talk by my asking Dennis his feelings now about the Marines. Any regrets for all those wounds? Or about having been sent to and having to fight an unpopular war? "No. The Marine Corps meant a tremendous amount to me. And even today I gain momentum from it. The Corps is one of the prime reasons Marines are so successful in whatever we do - because we refuse to quit.

The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

None the less, I think there is something in me which will endure. I am fettered by cowardice, I am enfeebled by disastrous memories; and I am maimed by old follies. Still, I seem to detect in myself something which is permanent and rather fine.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

Pain is just pain— you can live with it, fight with it." Yeah,

si no luchamos por algo nos dejaremos vencer por todo.

I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's so cliched. A weak male character is interesting: somebody else hasn't done it a hundred times. A strong female character is still interesting to me because it hasn't been done all that much, finding the balance of femininity and strength. [From a 1986 Fangoria interview]

Rose: You're trembling. Jack: I'll be alright.

Donald Lydecker: Alcoholism is not a disease, it's a failing. You've turned it into a church. You worship the altar of self-pity. I come to these rooms for one reason, to remember what I don't want to become... helpless, impotent, and weak.

Max Guevara: Girls kick ass; says so on a t-shirt.

the grace of what makes him different, is what enables him to "stand up.

I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.

The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet it when it comes. It does not make life easy; rather it tries to make us great enough for life.

Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.

And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

You cannot recreate hardships and can only live through them and draw strength from the experience's life intended for your training

Not everyone can sit down in the middle of chaos and take all the pain it brings and wait patiently for the turnover to arrive

I do not know everything and I am far from perfect but the little I do know makes me dangerous if you ever get on my bad side or mess with my family

Show me a person with great pain and many failures and I'll show you a very successful person

We are strong only because of our weaknesses and fears