Quotes About Strength

The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.

We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.

He who, with strong passions, remains chaste--he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive--these are strong men, spiritual heroes.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

I am not a man, I am dynamite!

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

I am no man, I am dynamite.

Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.

Even weak men when united are powerful.

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.

Julius Peppers is a beast, man. I dont know how many pounds he outweighs me by... I still try to do things like him to make my game better.

A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!

There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.

True love does not paralyze, but doubles the high qualities of man.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people.

The sight of a man hath the force of a Lyon.

So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.

A frightened man is a beaten man.