Quotes About Strength

never knew a tough man who preyed on the weak. Tough men hate bullies almost as much as bullies hate tough men.

They became demi-heroes, and were moved to respond with special sales, reduced prices, and a carnival atmosphere. The ghetto was a living organism: to counter external threats, it responded with the antibodies of courage, solidarity, and that desperate, magnificent love we usually call the survival instinct.

Pumping iron is Zen for violent men

modified his position by agreeing that suffering was not necessarily a sign of weakness, but insisting that we could toughen ourselves against it with a strong will; strength of will coming from strict self-discipline, a kind of self-imposed suffering. Farid added to his notion of suffering as an anti-

endured the pain expressionlessly

Then, to the general comment—I think that suffering is the way we test our love. Every act of suffering, no matter how small or agonisingly great, is a test of love in some way.

Sometimes the lion must roar, just to remind the horse of his fear.

There was so much sadness in it, but so much power as well.

soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

I told him,' she said, 'that a good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be

Whatever you do in life, do it with courage

He says that strong men make the luck to happen

Everything leaves a mark. Every blow echoes in the forest inside. Every injustice cuts a branch, and every loss is a fallen tree. The beautiful courage of us, the hope that defines our kind, is that we go on, no matter how much life wounds us. We walk. We face the sea and the wind and the salted truth of death, and we go on.

I courted danger because danger was one of the few things strong enough to help me forget what I'd lost.

the lion must roar, just to remind the horse of his fear.

He'd been trying to tell me that every human will has the power to transform its fate. I'd always

and violent, and they need to fear it. If

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

It smells of heartbreak, and the struggle to live, and of the crucial failures and loves that produce our courage.

I detest bullies for their cowardice, and despise them for their cruelty. I never knew a tough man who preyed on the weak. Tough men hate bullies almost as much as bullies hate tough men.

No-one, and nothing, could hurt me. No-one, and nothing, could make me very happy. I was tough, which is probably the saddest thing you can say about a man.

Some women cry easily. The tears fall as gently as fragrant raindrops in a sun-shower, and leave the face clear and clean and almost radiant. Other women cry hard, and all the loveliness in them collapses in the agony of it.

She saw me, and smiled. Those things inside, when the woman you love smiles at you: those spears of courage, that rain.