Quotes About Strength

In flood time you can see how some trees bend, and because they bend, even their twigs are safe, while stubborn trees are torn up, roots and all. And the same thing happens in sailing: make your sheet fast, never slacken,--and over you go

No? Believe me, the stiffest stubborn wills fall the hardest; the toughest iron tempered strong in the white-hot fire, you'll see it crack and shatter first of all. And I've known spirited horses you can break with a light bite—proud, rebellious horses. There's no room for pride, not in a slave, not with the lord and master standing by.

Oh but this I know: no sickness can destroy me

Never bring them down to the level of my pains.

Brave hearts do not back down they back off.

The truth with all its power lives inside me.

No man will ever be rooted from the earth as brutally as you.

In a just cause, the weak overcome the strong".

But death was a wind too strong for that.

If you are the man he says you are, believe me, you were born for pain.

Walls, towers, and ships, they all are nothing with no men to keep the wall.

Careful! There is war in women too, as you know by experience, I think.

My destiny, my dark power, what a leap you made!

Bu durumda dostlar?m, ne ak?ll? ne dindar olmak mümkündür; kötülüÄŸün içinde bizi kötülüÄŸe zorlayan güç çok büyüktür.

make grief a weapon!

Women are warlike too.

Words scare not him who blenches not at deeds.

The most powerful man in nothing without self-control and mental discipline.

PHI.: All winds are fair to him who flies from woe.

Nada temo, pues mantengo la verdad, que es poderosa.

I have a lion inside me, and I had to feed it words every few days; when I don't, it begins to eat me instead.

My mother did not look away and she did not pretend.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion — and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion… while truth again reverts to a new minority.