Quotes About Strength

We have spawned 'leadership' that does not lead, that panders to our whims rather than telling us the truth, that follows the crowd rather than challenging us, that weakens us rather than strengthening us," he wrote. "It is easy to go downhill, and we are now following that easy path. Pandering is not illegal, but it is immoral. It is doing the convenient when the right course demands inconvenience and courage.

To clench one's teeth, to be realistic, but not to compromise, to press on, in spite of the absolute weariness of the million inevitable failures of any great task—that is discipline.

A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot.

Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people—we go on.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

To be alive at all is to have scars.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to 99 who have only interests.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100,000 who have only interests.

To prevent the weaker members of the community from being preyed upon by innumerable vultures, it was needful that there should be an animal of prey stronger than the rest, commissioned to keep them down. But as the king of vultures would be no less bent upon preying upon the flock than any of the minor harpies, it was indispensable to be in a perpetual attitude of defense against his beak and claws.

One person with a belief is equal to the foce of 100,000 who have only interests.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. [...] To say that one persons desires and feelings are stronger and more various than those of another, is merely to say that he has more of the raw material of human nature, and is therefore capable, perhaps of more evil, but certainly of more good.

There is not the same willingness to admit that our desires and should be our own likewise, or that to possess impulses of our own, and of any strength, is anything but a peril and a snare. Yet desires and impulses are as much a part of a perfect human being as beliefs and restraints; and strong impulses are only perilous when not properly balanced.

The same strong susceptibilities which makes the personal impulses vivid and powerful are also the source from whence are generated the most passionate love of virtue and the sternest self-control.

La ventaja real que la verdad tiene consiste en esto: que cuando una opinión es verdadera, puede ser extinguida una, dos o muchas veces, pero en el curso de las edades, generalmente, se encontrarán personas que la vuelvan a descubrir, y una de estas reapariciones tendrá lugar en un tiempo en el que por circunstancias favorables escape a la persecución, hasta que consiga la fuerza necesaria para resistir todos los intentos ulteriores para suprimirla.

To say that one person's desires and feelings are stronger and more various than those of another, is merely to say that he has more of the raw material of human nature, and is therefore capable, perhaps of more evil, but certainly of more good.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained.

I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat.

Wars are lost or won by possession of three keys: morale, logistics, leadership.

Indeed, recent writing suggests that episcopal attempts to quash national parishes, schools, and societies only strengthened national identities by creating a sense of shared victimization.

Behind those thick glasses (of TR's) was a man who did not blink.