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Quotes About Strength

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
~ Georges Bidault
The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.
~ Baroness Orczy
I arose a mother in Israel.
~ Bible
There's no such thing as a nonworking mother.
~ Hester Mundis
You can't underestimate the power of fear.
~ Patricia Nixon
Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
~ English proverb
When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable, and to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place - a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow of Nature.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Hearts of oak are our ships, Hearts of oak are our men.
~ David Garrick
Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
~ Louis Kossuth
He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
~ Bible
I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.
~ John Dryden
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, 'til it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring, fight one more round.
~ James J. Corbett
This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten, and goes on fighting.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.
~ Louis L'Amour
There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.
~ Beverly Sills
It's not worthy of human beings to give up.
~ Alva Reimer Myrdal
Never admit defeat!
~ Arthur Rimbaud
We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the halls. We shall never surrender.
~ Winston Churchill
He conquers who endures.
~ Anonymous
To bear is to conquer our fate.
~ Thomas Campbell
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it, and not be smashed by it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.
~ Bliss Carman