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Quotes About Strength

Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.
~ George R.R. Martin
A frightened man is a beaten man.
~ George R.R. Martin
Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid." "What do you think?" his father asked. Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if he's afraid?" "That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him.
~ George R.R. Martin
You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.
~ George R.R. Martin
It takes courage to admit fear.
~ George R.R. Martin
I will teach them what it means to put a lion in a cage, Cersei thought.
~ George R.R. Martin
So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.
~ George R.R. Martin
Let me give you some counsel, bastard. Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strenght. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you. —Tyrion Lannister
~ George R.R. Martin
I'm not a lady, Arya wanted to tell her, I'm a wolf.
~ George R.R. Martin
When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.
~ George R.R. Martin
The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. 'She is a girl,' she said, 'and I do not think that she is yours. I had a thousand other men.' He tossed his spear at my feet and gave my mother the back of his hand across the face, so she began to weep. 'Girl or boy, we fight our battles,' he said, 'but the gods let us choose our weapons.' He pointed to the spear, then to my mother's tears, and I picked up the spear.
~ George R.R. Martin
I am the blood of the dragon, she thought. If they are monsters, so am I.
~ George R.R. Martin
That's no law, just a sword. Happens I got one too.
~ George R.R. Martin
Men will always underestimate you, he said, and their pride will make them want to vanquish you quickly, lest it be said that a woman tried them sorely. Let them spend their strength in furious attacks, whilst you conserve your own. Wait and watch, girl, wait and watch.
~ George R.R. Martin
Fear cuts deeper than swords. The man who fears losing has already lost.
~ George R.R. Martin
Nor was he Aemon Targaryen. Three times the old man had chosen, and three times he had chosen honor, but that was him. Even now, Jon could not decide whether the maester had stayed because he was weak and craven, or because he was strong and true.
~ George R.R. Martin
I am only a little lion, child, and I vow, I shall not savage you.
~ George R.R. Martin
The wolf blood, Arya remembered now. I'll be as strong as Robb, I said I would. She took a deep breath, then lifted the broomstick in both hands and brought down across her knee. It broke with a loud crack, and she threw the pieces aside. 'I am a direwolf, and done with the wooden teeth.
~ George R.R. Martin
Remember who you are, Daenerys, ... The dragons know. Do you? - Quaithe
~ George R.R. Martin
Everything Syrio Forel had ever taught her vanished in a heartbeat. In that instant of sudden terror, the only lesson Arya could remember was the one Jon Snow had given her, the very first. She stuck him with the pointy end, driving the blade upward with a wild, hysterical strength.
~ George R.R. Martin
The sea is never weary. I must be as tireless.
~ George R.R. Martin
I am not blind, nor deaf. I know you all believe me weak, frightened, feeble. Your father knew me better. Oberyn was ever the viper. Deadly, dangerous, unpredictable. No man dared tread on him. I was the grass. Pleasant, complaisant, sweet-smelling, swaying with every breeze. Who fears to walk upon the grass? But it is the grass that hides the viper from his enemies and shelters him until he strikes.
~ George R.R. Martin
Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.
~ George R.R. Martin
Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.
~ George R.R. Martin