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Quotes About Strength

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.
~ Terry Pratchett
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
~ Walter Savage Landor
If a man is to be a man, a free spirit unto himself, he must arm himself not only with weapons but with ideals and concepts he is willing to die for.
~ William Powell
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The burdens of a woman are more than the average man could ever endure.
~ Honoré Daumier
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.
~ Confucius
A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner.
~ David Deida
The failure is the man who stays down when he falls.
~ David Dunbar Buick
Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.
~ Euripides
We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture.
~ Gene Stratton-Porter
The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on.
~ George S. Patton
Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
~ Lord Acton
I'm attracted to men who are going to stand up to me.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
~ Malcolm X
It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Gut it is will move us from the gutter .. . to the rebirth of real men.
~ Keorapetse Kgositsile
The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
~ Aeschylus
Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.
~ Albert Einstein
You don't need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.
~ Anna Godbersen
The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne