Quotes About Strength

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Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through. And man will go on. Man, not men.

economic strength to make a start. How do you expect

She liked his face—its lines were tight and firm, it did not have that look of loose muscles evading the responsibility of a shape, which she had learned to expect in people's faces.

He was sixty years old; his backbone had been as straight as his gun; his spirit-as straight as his backbone.

No son mis pecados lo que usan para perjudicarme, sino mis virtudes;

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.

But you're wrong, Paul, you're so wrong! What would happen to Henry's vanity if he didn't have us to throw alms to? What would become of his strength if he didn't have weaker people to dominate? What would he do with himself if he didn't keep us around as dependents? It's quite all right, really, I'm not criticizing him, it's just a law of human nature.

A través de toda la oscuridad, a través de toda la vergüenza de que son capaces los hombres, el espíritu del hombre permanecerá vivo en esta tierra.

His vision, his strength, his courage came from his own spirit. A man's spirit, however, is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.

It was a hymn with the force of a march, a march with the majesty of a hymn. It was the song of soldiers bearing sacred banners and of priests carrying swords. It was an anthem to the sanctity of strength.

That future that they're all talking and trembling about—it will be as you made it, because you had the courage none of them could conceive of. All the roads to wealth that they're scrambling for now, it's your strength that broke them open. The strength to stand against everyone. The strength to recognize no will but your own.

So long a road lies before us, and what care we if we must travel it alone!

But you see, the measure of hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love. ? Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged . (Berkley; Reprint edition August 1, 1999) Originally published 1957.

He decided that pain was not a valid reason for stopping.

Thus, if a man is attracted to a woman of intelligence, confidence and strength, if he is attracted to a heroine, he reveals one kind of soul; if, instead, he is attracted to an irresponsible, helpless scatterbrain, whose weakness enables him to feel masculine, he reveals another kind of soul; if he is attracted to a frightened slut, whose lack of judgment and standards allows him to feel free of reproach, he reveals another kind of soul.

La palabra «Nosotros» es como cal derramada sobre los hombres, que los solidifica y endurece hasta hacerlos de piedra, y que aplasta todo bajo ella, y aquello que es blanco y aquello que es negro se pierden igualmente en su gris. Es la palabra mediante la cual los depravados roban la virtud de los buenos, mediante la cual los débiles roban el vigor de los fuertes, mediante la cual los necios roban la sabiduría de los sabios.

It's roots clutched the hill like a fist with fingers sunk into the soil, and he thought that if a giant were to seize it by the top, he would not be able to uproot it, but would swing the hill and the whole earth with it, like a ball at the end of a string.

gathered into the single will of pressure, that a shaft of steel

Pero te encontrarás con gente que intentará herirte através de lo bueno que haya en ti, sabiendo que es bueno, necesitándolo y aborreciéndote por ello. No te dejes atropellar cuando descubras semejante actitud en los otros.

Es malo tener éxito, ya que el éxito se consigue por los fuertes a expensas de los débiles? Hemos dejado de agobiar a los débiles con nuestra ambición y quedan en libertad de prosperar sin nosotros.

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

The more we die, the stronger we will become

My toe as a lethal weapon!