Quotes About Strength

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

No man is ever whipped, until he QUITS

Resolve is what makes a man manifest. Not puny resolve; not crude determinations; not errant

Physical fitness is of utmost importance for the simple reason that neither mind nor body can function well without it.

physical stamina

Lembre-se disso e mantenha as portas da sua mente hermeticamente fechadas contra todos os pensamentos que procuram limitá-lo de qualquer maneira e você assim ficará a salvo.

Courage is the only virtue you cannot fake.

Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I'd rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.

The epiphany I had in my career in randomness came when I understood that I was not intelligent enough, nor strong enough, to even try to fight my emotions.

Alexander said that it was preferable to have an army of sheep led by a lion than an army of lions led by a sheep.

Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (one of the doer-Stoic authors), "fire feeds on obstacles.

Recall that the fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.

Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire.

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

It seemed, wrote Machiavelli, that in the midst of murders and civil wars, our republic became stronger [and] its citizens infused with virtues. … A little bit of agitation gives resources to souls and what makes the species prosper isn't peace, but freedom.

At the end, what matters is the strength of the string—not the wealth and power of the dining party.

Organisms need, to use the metaphor of Marcus Aurelius, to turn obstacles into fuel—just as fire does.

Let us call Mithridatization the result of an exposure to a small dose of a substance that, over time, makes one immune to additional, larger quantities of it. It is the sort of approach used in vaccination and allergy medicine. It is not quite antifragility, still at the more modest level of robustness, but we are on our way. And we already have a hint that perhaps being deprived of poison makes us fragile and that the road to robustification starts with a modicum of harm.

Many, like the great Roman statesman Cato the Censor, looked at comfort, almost any form of comfort, as a road to waste.1 He did not like it when we had it too easy, as he worried about the weakening of the will. And the softening he feared was not just at the personal level: an entire society can fall ill.

The author cites researcher David Howard's idea of post-traumatic growth. Howard contends that some individuals faced with a traumatic event actually develop new strength.

Per il robusto un errore è informazione, per il debole un errore è solo un errore

For the antifragile, shocks bring more benefits (equivalently, less harm) as their intensity increases (up to a point).

the antifragile benefits from volatility and disorder, the fragile is harmed.