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Quotes About Strength

I've never been the wilting flower. I've never been the girl who's subservient to a man.
~ Leven Rambin
A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class
~ Charles Bukowski
We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.
~ Charles Spurgeon
When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
~ Chinua Achebe
A superior man is one who is free from fear and anxieties
~ Confucius
A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.
~ Confucius
Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Four inch nails is more like it!
~ Courtney Love
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
~ Denis Diderot
Losing is like my ex-wife... it's a b****, and it takes a bigger man than me to live with it.
~ Don Frye
Mack Bolan was simply a man who could command himself.
~ Don Pendleton
Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
~ Euripides
Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.
~ Frederick Douglass
Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.
~ Gautama Buddha
Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.
~ H. G. Wells
The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.
~ Michael Drayton
To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance
~ Michelle Wie
I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.
~ Natalie Imbruglia
Adversity cleanses the lethargies of man
~ Nelson Mandela
Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis