Quotes About Strength

But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Keep sacred your highest hope!

Gratitude pours forth continually, as if the unexpected had just happened—the gratitude of a convalescent—for convalescence was unexpected…. The rejoicing of strength that is returning, of a reawakened faith in a tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, of a sudden sense and anticipation of a future, of impending adventures, of seas that are open again.

My paradise is in the shadow of my sword.

I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Whether man recovers from it, whether he becomes master of this crisis, is a question of his strength

Excess of strength alone is proof of strength

On a political sickbed a people is usually rejuvenated and rediscovers its spirit, after having gradually lost it in seeking and preserving power. Culture owes its peaks to politically weak ages.

wherever the strength of a faith steps decisively into the foreground, we infer a certain weakness in its ability to demonstrate its truth, even the improbability of what it believes. We, too, do not deny that the belief "makes blessed," but for that very reason we deny that the belief proves something—a strong belief which confers blessedness creates doubts about what it has faith in. It does not ground "truth." It grounds a certain probability— delusion.

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it, even with the best right, but without being OBLIGED to do so, proves that he is probably not only strong, but also daring beyond measure.

I see you exhausted by poisonous flies; I see you bleeding and torn at a hundred spots; and your pride refuses even to be angry. They would have blood from you in all innocence; blood is what bloodless souls crave - and therefore they sting in all innocence.

What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

I am no man, I am dynamite

We must know how to preserve ourselves: the greatest test of independence.

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

Our most sacred convictions, those which are permanent in us concerning the highest values, are judgments emanating from our muscles.

What is heavy? so asks the spirit that would bear much, and then kneels down like the camel, and wants to be well laden.

An incalculable number of higher individuals now perish: but he who escapes their fate is as strong as the devil.

One does not attack a person merely to hurt and conquer him, but perhaps merely to become conscious of one's own strength.

love of truth is something fearsome and mighty.

They cast injustice and filth at the solitary one: but, my brother, if you would be a star, you must shine for them none the less on that account!

What makes heroic? – To go to meet simultaneously one's greatest sorrow and one's greatest hope.

Pe cine ur??te oare femeia cel mai mult? — AÅŸa gr?it-a fierul c?tre magnet: «Pe tine te ur?sc cel mai mult, c?ci tu m-atragi, îns? nu eÅŸti destul de tare s? m? Å£ii.»

The everlasting and exclusive coming-to-be, the impermanence of everything actual, which constantly acts and comes-to-be but never is, as Heraclitus teaches it, is a terrible, paralyzing thought. Its impact on men can most nearly be likened to the sensation during an earthquake when one loses one's familiar confidence in a firmly grounded earth. It takes astonishing strength to transform this reaction into its opposite, into sublimity and the feeling of blessed astonishment. (p.58)

The same causes which tend to promote the belittling of men, also force the stronger and rarer individuals upwards to greatness.

I am not a man, I am dynamite