Quotes About Strength

tinha descoberto a profunda diferença entre justiça e moralidade. A justiça era o instrumento dos fortes, para ser usada como os fortes desejavam; a moralidade, como os deuses, era a ilusão dos fracos.

the two wounded

The first rule is never to split your forces unless it is necessary to survival. The second rule is to attack if you are going to fight, and if you are not going to attack, avoid battle. The third rule is to choose the time and place of battle and never leave that choice to the enemy. The fourth rule is to avoid encirclement at all cost. And the final rule is to attack and destroy the enemy where he is weakest.

Is that what lives on longest, the sadness? The proof of our being weak, not the proof of our being strong?

The weaker the country, the stronger the smile.

Never forget the six-foot-tall man who drowned crossing the stream that was five feet deep on average.

Life is a cement trampoline.

The lion growls. Beware thy head.

When you give up,' said a slim older man whose home we rebuilt, 'you might as well lay down and die.' It was obvious that we weren't just giving people back their homes, but also restoring a sense of dignity.

Be bold, but be fair. Don't give in. If others around you have integrity, too, you can prevail

Of all weapons, love is the most deadly and devastating, and few there be who dare trust their fate in its hands.

Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.

In the stillness of quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

The awareness of being a child of God tends to stabilize the ego and results in a new courage, fearlessness, and power. I have seen it happen again and again.

At times when the strain is heaviest upon us, And our tired nerves cry out in many-tongued pain Because the flow of love is choked far below the deep recesses of the heart, We seek with cravings firm and hard The strength to break the dam That we may live again in love's warm stream. Until, at least, we are restored and made anew!

It is never to be forgotten that one of the ways by which men measure their own significance is to be found in the amount of power and energy other men must use in order to crush them or hold them back.

This book provides a message to Black children on how to thrive and flourish in a world that attempts to destroy their humanity from the "inside" out.

Sometimes there is only a sixty-second divide between youth and maturity, childhood and adulthood, strength and weakness, life and death. That life is vulnerable is the key to its longevity.

I've rode o'er hot, dry deserts And over mountains tall I believed in the bad land sayin' "A good gun never falls"

The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts — it's what you do with what you have left.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts -- it's what you do with what you have left.