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Quotes About Strength

A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps, but an unselfish person,—when?
~ Ridgely Torrence
An armed man need not fight.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Every man has a day in his life when nobody can defeat him.
~ Robert Boswell
A man in armour is his armour's slave.
~ Robert Browning
A man in armor is his armor's slave.
~ Robert Browning
Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man.
~ Harrison Ford
Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
I will not get upset over men, but instead be poised and cool ice-queen.
~ Helen Fielding
Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.
~ Henry Adams
The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not fail.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A man that is afraid is never a man.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.
~ Herman Melville
Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.
~ Herman Melville
Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.
~ Herodotus
I fear no man, no woman; flower does not fear bird, insect nor adder.
~ Hilda Doolittle
Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.
~ Homer
Steel itself oft lures a man to fight.
~ Homer