Quotes About Strength

President Franklin Roosevelt argued that all that Americans had to fear was 'fear itself'.

Known to the Chinese as 'Iron-Headed Old Rat

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.

Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.

Hence it comes that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed.

when they depend upon their own resources and can employ force, they seldom fail. Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.

That defense alone is effectual, sure and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valour.

It is better to be feared than to be loved, if you can not be both

If they lacked the opportunity, the strength of their sprit would have been sapped; if they had lacked ability, the opportunity would have been wasted.

But since a Prince should know how to use the beast's nature wisely, he ought of beasts to choose both the lion and the fox; for the lion cannot guard himself from the toils, nor the fox from wolves. He must therefore be a fox to discern toils, and a lion to drive off wolves.

Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

no principality is secure without having its own forces;

That deliverance is of no avail which does not depend upon yourself; those only are reliable, certain, and durable that depend upon yourself and your valor.

no es victoria verdadera la que se obtiene con armas ajenas.

É necessário a um príncipe saber usar do animal com destreza, dentre todos ele deve escolher a raposa e o leão, pois o leão não pode defender-se de armadilhas, e a raposa é indefesa diante dos lobos; é preciso, pois ser raposa para conhecer as armadilhas e leão para afugentar os lobos - aqueles que simplesmente adotam o leão não entendem do assunto.

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed

and those modes of defence are alone good, certain and lasting, which depend upon yourself and your own worth.

it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves.

Quem cria o poder de outrem se arruína, porque tal poder se origina da astúcia ou da força, e ambas são suspeitas a quem se tornou poderoso.

Quod nihil sit tam infirmum aut instaible quam fama potentiae non sua vi nixa.'' ''Hiçbir ÅŸey; kendi gücüne dayanmayan bir iktidar?n ünü kadar zay?f ve deÄŸiÅŸken deÄŸildir.

si el que construye sobre el pueblo es un príncipe que sabe mandar y es valeroso, que no se amedrenta ante la adversidad, que no carece de otras aptitudes y que con su valor y sus instituciones mantiene despierto el ánimo de todos, nunca se encontrará engañado por el pueblo y se habrá procurado sólidos cimientos.

porque nunca hay que dejarse caer creyendo que vas a encontrar a alguien que te recoja. Esto o no sucede o, si sucede, pierdes tu seguridad, porque ese tipo de defensa es vil y no depende de ti. Sólo son buenas, seguras y duraderas las defensas que dependen de ti mismo y de tu virtud.