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Quotes About Strength

As the biologist J. B. S. Haldane metaphorically described the advantages of smallness: "You can drop a mouse down a thousandyard mineshaft; and on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat is killed, a man broken, a horse splashes."3
~ James C. Scott
So what if those stupid roosters don't want to crow? If we've learned to live without men, we can learn to live without cocks.
~ James Cañón
If you're afraid to defend your convictions because you might get your ass kicked for it, you're not really fit to advocate for them.
~ James Carlos Blake
she had discovered within herself the unlikely gift for functioning with equilibrium and efficiency inside a full-blown, unending nightmare. [A Red Cross worker during WWII in Italy]
~ James Carroll
Patience means restraining yourself. There are seven emotions, Joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate. If a man doesn't give way to these, he's patient. I'm not as strong as I might be but I'm patient.
~ James Clavell
Without trade the world will become what it was once—a hell where only the strongest arm and the heaviest lash was law. The meek will never inherit the earth. Aye, but at least they can be protected by law to live out their lives as they wish.
~ James Clavell
Karma es el principio del conocimiento. Después, está la paciencia. La paciencia es muy importante. Los pacientes son fuertes, Anjín-san. Paciencia significa dominar nuestra inclinación hacia las siete emociones: odio, adoración, gozo, ansiedad, irritación, dolor y miedo. Si las resistes, eres paciente, y pronto comprenderás todas las cosas y estarás en armonía con la Eternidad.»
~ James Clavell
How could such a pretty girl become known as the Hag, she wondered. It must be hateful to become old in face and body when you're young at heart and still strong and tough—so unfair for a woman.
~ James Clavell
I can't use hope against swords.
~ James Clavell
It's a hard life for a woman, Felicity," he had said before. And she had said, "Any life is hard for a woman.
~ James Clavell
They're wise in China. There the first of a dynasty's always a peasant or the son of a peasant, and the throne's always taken by force with bloody hands. No hereditary caste there—isn't that China's strength?
~ James Clavell
Oh, yes. Every year in this Land of the Gods we have earth tremors. And fires and flood and Great Waves, and the monster storms – the tai-funs. Nature is very strong with us.' Tears gathered at the corners of her eyes. 'Perhaps that is why we love life so much, Anjin-san. You see, we have to. Death is part of our air and sea and earth. You should know, Anjin-san, in this Land of Tears, death is our heritage.
~ James Clavell
I'm not afraid, my son. I fear nothing on this earth. I fear only God's judgment
~ James Clavell
What is pain to a man? A privilege!
~ James Clavell
What is pain to a man? A privilege! Masking pain is the measure of a man.
~ James Clavell
There are seven emotions, neh? Joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate. If a man doesn't give way to these, he's patient. I'm not as strong as I might be but I'm patient.
~ James Clavell
Only a real man has the right to stand at the pinnacle.
~ James Clavell
why swear at him, even to yourself? He hasn't sworn at you. Swearing's for the weak, or for fools. Isn't it?
~ James Clavell
Beauty Is not less For falling In the breeze.
~ James Clavell
Money means nothing to a real man.
~ James Clavell
Adam ruled over vÅ¡emi.Byl Král.Až the day he will be king opustila.Pak came forth and became food for the silnÄ›jÅ¡í.A strongest was always king , not only due to its strength, but thanks to his smarts , luck and strength together. among rats.
~ James Clavell
it be no weakness to ask a friend for help.
~ James Clemens
No man knows courage," his father had told him, "who has not known fear.
~ James Conroyd Martin
Lady bartenders live a tougher life than anybody knows. -- Dancing Bear
~ James Crumley