Quotes About Strength

Slay the dragon in his lair before he comes to your village. If you run from the things you are afraid of, you run from what you need, in fact, to find.

But standing up straight with your shoulders back is not something that is only physical, because you're not only a body. You're a spirit, so to speak—a psyche—as well. Standing up physically also implies and invokes and demands standing up metaphysically. Standing up means voluntarily accepting the burden of Being.

As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, "He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.

RULE 1 STAND UP STRAIGHT WITH YOUR SHOULDERS BACK LOBSTERS— AND TERRITORY

Jordan B. Peterson

Mantenerse erguido con los hombros hacia atrás es aceptar con los ojos bien abiertos la terrible responsabilidad que supone vivir.

More importantly, however, Horus has the will to see, along with the ability. This is courage itself: the refusal to shrink from what makes itself known, no matter how terrible it seems.

noted, "He whose life has a why can bear almost any how."61

Pain matters, more than matter matters.

We become stronger by voluntarily facing what impedes our necessary progress.

Fortify Your Position

Be grateful in spite of your suffering.

We must have something to set against the suffering that is intrinsic to Being.

We are not helpless. Even in the rubble of the most broken-down lives, useful weapons might still be found.

Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living—and the Ideal shames us all.

la familia que se pelea entre las ruinas de su hogar devastado por un terremoto tiene muchas menos probabilidades de reconstruir algo que la familia fortalecida por la confianza y la devoción mutuas

It much better for any relationship when both partners are strong.

You need to consider the future and think, "What might my life look like if I were caring for myself properly? What career would challenge me and render me productive and helpful, so that I could shoulder my share of the load, and enjoy the consequences? What should I be doing, when I have some freedom, to improve my health, expand my knowledge, and strengthen my body?

Nadie que de verdad se encuentre del lado de la humanidad podría ponerse del lado de algo así. Nadie que pretenda prosperar podría permitirse quedar poseído por algo así. Y si piensas que los hombres duros son peligrosos, espera a ver de lo que son capaces los débiles.

the Ideal shames us all. Thus we fear it, resent it--even hate it[...]What are we to do about that? Abandon all ideals of beauty, health, brilliance and strength? That's not a good solution.

To his great and salutary shock, I picked him bodily off the playground structure, and threw him thirty feet down the field.

Follow what you're interested in, yet, it will take you over to adversity and then it will transform you from a citizen into an individual and then the doors will open again and at that point, you're strong enough to have your life.

Don't think that it is easier to surround yourself with good healthy people than with bad unhealthy people. It's not. A good, healthy person is an ideal. It requires strength and daring to stand up near such a person. Have some humility. Have some courage. Use your judgment, and protect yourself from too-uncritical compassion and pity.

Your resolution trumps your nihilism and despair.