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Quotes About Strength

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.
~ Sun Tzu
Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain
~ Sun Tzu
A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of a tiger.
~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo
In war, discipline can do more than fury.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had
~ William Westmoreland
We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.
~ Harry S. Truman
Conquer or be conquered.
~ David Farragut
I believe America will always win the war. It's a superpower that no one can challenge. The real challenge is for the United States to win the peace.
~ Christiane Amanpour
To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
~ Barry Goldwater
You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.
~ Pete Hegseth
We dared not charge them except all together... for they were so numerous that they could have blinded us with clods of earth, if God, of His great mercy, had not aided and protected us.
~ Bernal Diaz del Castillo
Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.
~ Sun Tzu
A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon.
~ Martin Luther
War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.
~ Anacreon
There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.
~ Ronald Reagan
Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that love away.
~ Henri Nouwen
If they wish to fight today, let them come like men.
~ Bohemond I of Antioch
Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared
~ Sun Tzu
No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
~ George S. Patton
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
~ Voltaire
To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower