Quotes About Strength

Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? 'Thou shalt' is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, 'I will.

Courage, however, is the best slayer—courage which attacks: which slays even death itself, for it says, 'Was that life? Well then! Once more!

What is good? - All that heightens the feelings of power, the will to power, power itself in man. What is bad? - All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? - The feeling that power increases - that a resistance is overcome.

The tension of the soul in unhappiness, which cultivates its strength; its horror at the sight of the great destruction; its inventiveness and bravery in bearing, enduring, interpreting, exploiting unhappiness, and whatever in the way of depth, mystery, mask, spirit, cleverness, greatness the heart has been granted - has it not been granted them through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

To be sure, I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but (s)he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

The spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers the world.

Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

For others do I wait...for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come.

When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.

Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so delicate!

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

It is much more agreeable to offend and later ask forgiveness than to be offended and grant forgiveness. The one who does the former demonstrates his power and then his goodness. The other, if he does not want to be thought inhuman, must forgive; because of this coercion, pleasure in the other's humiliation is slight.

Terribleness is part of greatness: let us not deceive ourselves.

She has the power to both possess and shatter my entire universe, that is all.

So I ask my pride that it always go along with my wisdom. And when my wisdom leaves me one day alas - it loves to flyway - let my pride then fly with my folly.

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions—? Rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions

To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable art: yet what could be more necessary than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds in which high spirits play no part. Only excess of strength is proof of strength.

Lo que no te mata te hiere de gravedad y te deja tan apaleado, que luego aceptas cualquier tipo de maltrato y te dices a ti mismo que eso te fortalece.

Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings, who think themselves good because they have crippled paws!

That which is ready to fall, shall ye also push!