Quotes About Strength

Du bist nicht deshalb mächtig, weil du stark bist, Christopher. Du bist mächtig, weil du gut bist.

You are part of an infinite family. The people who have been through terrible things and survived them. If you are reading these words, you WON today, You are here. You are alive. You have options. Whatever strategy you choose, you WIN.

And for the first time, something nice like that made me smile and not cry.

That moment when you know you're not a sad story. You are alive.

Podemos tragarnos nuestro miedo o dejar que nos devore

The only thing that gets me high is the musky scent of my enemy's fear

So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never actually entrust my heart to scientists—they'd probably implant it in a baboon. And a baboon with my heart would be practically unstoppable. Baboon strength and agility combined with my determination and media savvy? It would be a threat to all of humanity.

A dog, a woman, an' a walnut tree, Th' more yeh beat 'em, th' better they be! That's like us.

Stephen Crane

He saw that to be firm soldiers they must go forward.

A dog, a woman, an' a walnut tree, Th' more yeh beat 'em, th' better they be! That's like us.

He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.

She was thinking a woman needed an angel for every son of a bitch she'd ever known.

I look for those with hidden wings, and for scars that those who once had wings can't hide.

The men were told that Currahee was an Indian word that meant "We stand alone," which was the way these paratroopers expected to fight. It became the battle cry of the 506th.

El hecho de que oficiales y soldados rasos se vinieran abajo bajo la constante tensión y vulnerabilidad no es nada extraordinario. Lo verdaderamente extraordinario es que tantos hombres no se hundiesen.

Crazy Horse called to his men, "Ho-ka hey! It is a good day to fight! It is a good day to die! Strong hearts, brave hearts, to the front! Weak hearts and cowards to the rear.

mentor, Frederick the Great, had warned, "He who defends everything, defends nothing."6

the strongest reason of all for the United States [to stay out] is the fact that among all the powerful nations of the world the United States is the only one with a tradition of anti-colonialism. . . . The standing of the United States as the most powerful of the anti-colonial powers is an asset of incalculable value to the Free World

They were learning about others. A common experience: the guy who talked toughest, bragged most, excelled in maneuvers, everyone's pick to be the top soldier in the company, was the first to break, while the soft-talking kid who was hardly noticed in camp was the standout in combat. These are the clichés of war novels precisely because they are true. They

aggression with a deeply rooted instinct to charge

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. Bones mend and become actually stronger in the very place they were broken and where they have knitted up; mental wounds can grind and ooze for decades and be re-opened by the quietest whisper.

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

No labour was more Heraclean than the labour of being Heracles.