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Quotes About Strength

Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.
~ W. E. B. Griffin
The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Many a good man I have seen go under.
~ Walt Whitman
Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood.
~ Walter Johnson
Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.
~ William Carlos Williams
If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
~ William Penn
We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.
~ William Shakespeare
Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
~ William Shakespeare
What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.
~ William Shakespeare
I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.
~ William Styron
Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they'd be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they're clumsy and maladjusted.
~ Yasmina Reza
So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.
~ Yingluck Shinawatra
I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
~ Zoe Saldana
I was the Commander in Chief with men and women in combat. And the idea of trying to agonize in public or show weakness would have demoralized them.
~ George W. Bush
A feminist is a man or woman who already knows for a fact that men and women are qual and wants society to wake up to that fact, so the world can stop operating at half-strength.
~ Marlo Thomas
Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
~ Aeschylus
What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.
~ Annette O'Toole
By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.
~ Arundhati Roy
And man will go on. Man, not men.
~ Ayn Rand
Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed.
~ Rudolf Steiner
If I were as much of a man as my woman, I'd be my wife.
~ Ryan Stiles
The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
~ Samuel Smiles
You don't get taken seriously by asking someone to take you seriously. You've got to show up and own it. If this is a man's world, who cares? I'm still really glad to be a girl in it.
~ Sophia Amoruso