Quotes About Strength

Character is that which can do without success.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

I exhort you to be of good cheer.

His Christianity was muscular.

It was founded upon a rock.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Don't ask me to give in to this body of mine. I can't afford it. Between me and my body there must be a struggle until death.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow, and of the man who leads, that gains the victory.

When love is strong, a man and a woman can make their bed on a sword's blade. When love grows weak, a bed of 60 cubits is not large enough.

I love an opposition that has convictions.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

J. C. F. von Schiller

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.

True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them.

Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

Soldiers, strike the foe in the face!

Courage is a quietness, not martial music made Born of facing up to life, even when afraid.

It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more "manhood" to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.

It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

Valour is nobleness of the mind.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp; the latter for the council; but to constitute a great man, both are necessary.

One of man's finest qualities is described by the simple word "guts"-the ability to take it. If you have the discipline to stand fast when your body wants to run, if you can control your temper and remain cheerful in the face of monotony or disappointment, you have "guts" in the soldiering sense.