Quotes About Strength

The truth behind the truth is this: even if you are a victim, you must never be a victim. Even if you deserve to be one. Because while you wait for somebody to come along and set things right, life has moved forward without you.

Loss creates a greater overall surface area within a person. You expand as a result of it. Though it may very well feel like the opposite.

even if you are a victim, you must never be a victim. Even if you deserve to be one. Because while you wait for somebody to come along and set things right, life has moved forward without you.

The unfairness of your current status is unimportant. What matters is, can you do what you need to do? If

You know, American alcoholics are pretty fucking hard to insult.

Scars are nothing to hate, they are nothing to deny. They serve as our proof of what we've survived, and there is nothing more beautiful than to have survived something.

When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.

Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.

There's a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition.

When you have to face up to the fact that marriage to the man you love is really over, that's very tough, sheer agony. In that kind of harrowing situation, I always go away and cut myself off from the world. Also, I sober up immediately when there is genuine bad news in my life; I never face it with alcohol in my brain. I just rented a house in Palm Springs and sat there and just suffered for a couple of weeks. I suffered there until I was strong enough to face it.

And I won 'em back fair and square. So what are you going to do about it? Want to fight? Who wants the first bloody nose?

But you see, the measure of hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love.

But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

A "collective" mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual minds who are weak, meek, submissive and impotent – who renounce their creative supremacy for the sake of the "whole" and accept humbly that the "whole's" verdict – we don't get a collective super-brain. We get only the weak, meek, submissive and impotent collective mind.

Look, Gail. Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end; then, his wrists and knuckles tensed against the resistance, he bent the branch slowly into an arc. Now I can make what I want of it: a bow, a spear, a cane, a railing. That's the meaning of life. Your strength? Your work. He tossed the branch aside. The material the earth offers you and what you make of it . . .

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)

The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer—because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement, not the possession of a brainless slut.

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.