Quotes About Strength

We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.

I can press when there needs to be pressed; I can hold hands when there needs to be -- hold hands.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining.

I will not forget this wound to our country or those who inflicted it. I will not yield; I will not rest; I will not relent in waging this struggle for freedom and security for the American people.

Today our nation saw evil...and we responded with the best of America.

Americans have the capacity now, as we've had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy

I'll die on my feet before I'll live on my knees!

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for their own ends of power and family interest, leaving the old strong outside their circle to pursue the waiting possibilities which they call crime. The weak, the cowardly, the decent ones, live between these groups.

One can always save one's own soul. - Lazare whispered. She uttered the sentence without moving, without even looking up. She gave me the feeling of unshakable conviction.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice . . . . Truth breaks free, science is popularized, and religion totters; soon it will fall, in the course of centuries--that is, tomorrow. . . . In good time we shall only have to deal with reason. [ From Bizet, by William Dean. Colier Books, 1962 ]

Impatience [...] is a twentieth-century virtue. At twenty, when they saw, or thought they saw, what life could be, the sum of bliss it held, the endless conquests it allowed, they realised they would not have the strength to wait. Like anyone else, they could have made it; but all they wanted was to have it made. That is probably the sense in which they were what are commonly called intellectuals.

Bir ÅŸeyler k?r?l?yordu, bir ÅŸeyler k?r?ld?. Kendini-nas?l demeli?-dayan?kl? hissetmiyorsun art?k: Sana bugüne kadar güç veren-öyle san?yordun, öyle san?yorsun-,yüreÄŸini ?s?tan ÅŸey, varoluÅŸ duygun,neredeyse önemli olduÄŸun duygusu, dünyaya baÄŸlanma,dünyada kalma duygusu eksikliÄŸini hissettirmeye baÅŸl?yor.

cela fait si longtemps que ça dure que j'ai cessé de me demander si c'est dans la haine ou dans l'amour que nous trouvons la force de continuer cette vie mensongère, que nous puisons l'énergie formidable qui nous permet encore de souffrir, et d'espérer.

They were both heavy, with the heaviness of people who are constantly struggling with the patient forces of nature.

Arrivava solido come il granito, e da quel momento pareva che tutto dovesse spezzarsi contro di lui, sia che avanzasse, sia che restasse piantato sulle gambe leggermente divaricate.

Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.

Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?

Your strength lies in being precisely the kind of man who can procure one a chair when it has come on to rain.