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Quotes About Strength

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
~ Robert South
Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.
~ Robert Southey
The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.
~ Robin Hobb
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
~ Rudyard Kipling
In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength.
~ Russell Crowe
The man can only ride you when your back is bent.
~ Sarah Palin
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
~ Seneca the Younger
Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
~ Seneca the Younger
Never underestimate a backwoods Cajun in a fight, old man.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Are you strong enough to be my man?
~ Sheryl Crow
Press on, press on, men.
~ Stonewall Jackson
He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?
~ Sue Grafton
Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
~ Tacitus
When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
~ Tacitus
I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.
~ Tamora Pierce
But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary
~ Tennessee Williams
No man easily admits that he is afraid.
~ Tess Gerritsen
The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.
~ Thomas Carlyle
She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.
~ Thomas Hardy
Why not be a man and fight like a man.
~ Tito Ortiz
For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!
~ Tom Lehrer
A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.
~ Unknown
There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.
~ Vince Lombardi