Quotes About Strength

But even in your world it's a byword. Men will fight bravely and be heroes, but for last-ditch defense against any odds… get a Mother.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

There is no better way to die, than to die in the midst of a battle, fighting to the very end......like a man.

It is a woman, and only a woman, — a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, — who can turn a house into a home.

We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.

The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct kicks in and he jumps to protect you and prove he's worthy of your love.

Great men can't be ruled.

Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.

God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.

Great men should drink with harness on their throats.

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.

I can't spare this man, he fights!

As long as there are men the bulwark is safe.

Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.

Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.

Hopeful men do not die so easily.