Quotes About Strength

Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.

Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.

Since the dawn of time man understands that suffering, faced with no fear, is his passport to freedom.

Wise man also fears a weak enemy.

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

How those holy men of old could storm the battlements above! When there was no way to look but up, they lifted up their eyes to God who made the hills, with unshakable confidence.

How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

I had no desire to crash a man's world.

The Old Man ain't afraid of hell

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

There have been other tracks that separated the men from the boys. This is the track that will separate the brave from the weak after the boys are gone.

There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'.

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case if it were not for God?

No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.

All men would be cowards if they could.

It's tough being out there doing what I'm doing in what they call a man's world.