Quotes About Strength

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.

All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust.

All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.

Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.

I don't believe in God. I believe in man -- in his strength, his possibilities, and his reason.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you -- gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

we often neglect to tell about those who go on in their dogged way to keep the world afloat and who seek to endure in the face of great trials.

those who do not give in and who, through their sacrifices and constancy, keep the horror at bay, keep us from descending into utter chaos and darkness. In doing so, they give us hope.