Quotes About Strength

Roots grow deep in the dark.

Pain hurts, sir. I don't court it.

The hope that she might regain her happiness made her fearless.

It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.

there is a delicacy in it equalled only by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk.

Swerve me? ye cannot swerve me, else ye swerve yourselves! man has ye there. Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush! Naught's an obstacle, naught's an angle to the iron way!

I will here venture upon a little description of him. He stood full six feet in height, with noble shoulders, and a chest like a coffer-dam. I have seldom seen such brawn in a man. His face was deeply brown and burnt, making his white teeth dazzling by the contrast; while in the deep shadows of his eyes floated some reminiscences that did not seem to give him much joy.

it was Queequeg's conceit, that if a man made up his mind to live, mere sickness could not kill him: nothing but a whale, or a gale, or some violent, ungovernable, unintelligent destroyer of that sort.

There was an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate, unsurrenderable wilfulness, in the fixed and fearless, forward dedication of that

No fear; I like a good grip; I like to feel something in this slippery world that can hold, man.

Both jaws, like enormous shears, bit the craft completely in twain.

Sing out and say something, my hearties. Roar and pull, my thunderbolts! Beach me, beach me on their black backs, boys; only do that for me, and I'll sign over to you my Martha's Vineyard plantation, boys; including wife and children, boys.

Accursed fate! that the unconquerable captain in the soul should have such a craven mate!

If man will strike, strike through the mask!

Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it;

But gulp down your tears and hie aloft to the royal-mast with your hearts; for your friends who have gone before are clearing out the seven-storied heavens, and making refugees of long-pampered Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael, against your coming. Here ye strike but splintered hearts together—there, ye shall strike unsplinterable glasses!

Ehrenbreitstein

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

It is often one of the prime redeeming qualities of your man of violence, that at times he has as stiff an arm to back a poor stranger in a strait, as to plunder a wealthy one.

The whale, like all things that are mighty, wears a false brow to the common world.

Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.

It] recquires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.

Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own.

I tell you, the sperm will stand no nonsense.