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Quotes About Strength

There are no real men.
~ Chrissie Hynde
I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, an that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire." (From Rebecca)
~ Daphne du Maurier
Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.
~ Horace Mann
It takes a Real man to fill my shoes.
~ Madonna Ciccone
In some respects woman is superior to man. She is more tender-hearted, more receptive, her intuition is more intense.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.
~ Aeschylus
Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.
~ Aeschylus
a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.
~ Agatha Christie
Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses.
~ Albert Camus
Fighting men are the city's fortress.
~ Alcaeus
What I've loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You've broken it with a word, so I must die.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.
~ Alice Hoffman
Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn't mean the weaker one doesn't love the stronger.
~ Alice Sebold
It is going to take a very brave man to love me.
~ Amanda Holden
Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.
~ Ameen Rihani
I may be a man, but I fight like a girl.
~ Andy Cohen
Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.
~ Anna Cora Mowatt
Testosterone does not have to be toxic.
~ Anna Quindlen
I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.
~ Anne Fortier
I like being able to be a man.
~ Anson Mount
Don't be economic Girlie-Men
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
I would say probably my most alpha quality is my competitive nature. I'm very competitive, and it tends to bring out very much the man in me.
~ Ashton Kutcher
When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.
~ Ayn Rand
A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
~ Ben Okri