Quotes About Strength

It was funny how so many men were defined by their downfall. Caesar, Fred Goodwin, Trotsky, Harvey Weinstein, Hitler, Jimmy Savile. Women hardly ever. They didn't fall down. They stood up.

Why make it easy when you could make it as difficult for yourself as possible? She was a woman, so, technically speaking, she could do anything.

Bridget wiped her tears vigorously on her apron and said, "Must get on with the tea.

Now it would not be the geography of Empire that would make him, it would be the architecture of war.

Her soft soul had crystallized. (Just as well, she thought.) She was a sword tempered in the fire.

No woman was ever truly safe. It didn't matter if you were as tough as Sigourney Weaver in Alien Resurrection or Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 because wherever you went there were men.

how strange it was that people just kept on going, even when their world no longer existed.

not so much an agent provocateur as an agent passif, if such a thing could be said to exist. ("Sometimes," Perry said, "saying nothing can be your strongest weapon.")

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

Sure, I didn't weigh a hundred and ten pounds , but my narrow waist let me bend and I could break a man's neck with my kick.

The Lord bears all the weaknesses of men, but He does not bear a man who is always murmuring, and does not leave Him without chastisement.

I think it's very much a men's thing to be able to have that fantasy to kill the beast.

It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.

There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.

The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.

Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room

A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .

The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.