Quotes About Strength

If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength.

Energy, even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed, will move mountains.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

He fights with spirit as well as with the sword.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

When the rock is hard, we get harder than the rock. When the job is tough, we get tougher than the job.

Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

Tears mess up your makeup.

Trouble is the thing that strong men grow by. Met in the right way, it is a sure-fire means of putting iron into the victim's will and making him a tougher man to down forever after.

Boys, this is only game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand, good or bad, and don't whine and complain, but play it out. If you're men enough to do that, God will help and you will come out well.

This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

Humor is my sword and my shield. It protects me. You can open a door with humor and drive a truck right through.

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.

Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, it's nothing against you to fall down flat, but to lie there - that's disgrace.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.