Quotes About Strength

Morality, said Jesus, is kindness to the weak; morality, said Nietzsche, is the bravery of the strong; morality, says Plato, is the effective harmony of the whole. Probably all three doctrines must be combined to find a perfect ethics; but can we doubt which of the elements is fundamental? X. Criticism

justice is the interest of the stronger

The wishbone will never replace the backbone

and a motto in a frame: sometimes i feel like giving up but then i remember of a lot of motherfuckers to prove wrong

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.   Anais Nin

Powers is the greatest aphrodisiac. -Nicole Muldoon

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.

We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.

In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder and what art Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And, when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand and what dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

O winter! bar thine adamantine doors: the north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark deep-founded habitation.

I dried my tears, and armed my fears With ten-thousand shields and spears

Terrified at Non Existence, for such they deemd the death of the body, Los his vegetable hands outstretch'd; his right hand branching out in fibrous Strength siez'd the Sun; his left hand like dark roots cover'd the Moon, and tore them down, cracking the heavens across from immense to immense.

Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.

I will not endure this thing! I alone withstand to death, This outrage! Ah me! how sick & pale you all stand round me! Ah me! pitiable ones! do you also go the deaths vale? All you my Friends & Brothers! all you my beloved Companions! Have you also caught the infection of Sin & stern Repentance? I see Disease arise upon you! yet speak to me and give Me some comfort: why do you all stand silent? I alone Remain in permanent strength.

What did Shakespeare say? When sorrows come, they come not as single spies – " "— But in battalions.

When sorrows come, they come not as single spies – " "— But in battalions.

you can't make these unilateral pacts with life. You can't say: that's it, my emotions are securely locked away, now I'm impregnable, safe from the world's cruelties and disappointments. Better to take them on, come what may, I said, see what strength you have within you.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly." Isaac Asimov

When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.