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Quotes About Strength

I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!
~ Douglas MacArthur
Be of good courage, my son, and remember that the best men always make themselves.
~ Patrick Henry
The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
~ Benjamin Graham
Strike up the drum and march courageously.
~ Christopher Marlowe
Invincibility depends on one's self; the enemy's vulnerability on him.
~ Sun Tzu
Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength.
~ Sun Tzu
That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.
~ Noel Coward
It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
I am proud of my children. They will make great warriors. And I will watch over them forever. I promise.
~ Erin Hunter
We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.
~ Jacobo Timerman
For Tempus...was a dozen storm gods' avatar; no army he sanctified could know defeat; no war he fought could not be won. Combat was life to him; he fought like the gods themselves.
~ Janet Morris
Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.
~ Heather Graham
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
~ Charles de Gaulle
Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished. [It., Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati vincero, e li disarmati rovinarono.]
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.
~ Jan Schakowsky
Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.
~ Dan Brown
Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be total.
~ Sun Tzu
A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.
~ Andrei Platonov
Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.
~ Adolf Hitler
My daddy says that when you do somethin' to distract you from your worstest fears, it's like whistlin' past the graveyard. You know, making a racket to keep the scaredness and the ghosts away. He says that's how we get by sometimes. But it's not weak, like hidin'...it's strong. It means you're able to go on.
~ Susan Crandall
My daddy always said being brave wasn't not being scared. Being brave was keeping going when you were.
~ Susan Crandall
I had to hold on to the mad so the sad didn't drown me.
~ Susan Crandall
being brave wasn't not being scared. Being brave was keeping going when you were.
~ Susan Crandall
all bullies got worse when you let them know they were hurting you.
~ Susan Crandall