Quotes About Strength

Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage is knowing what not to fear.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

The best is to do injustice without paying the penalty; the worst is to suffer it without being able to take revenge. Justice is a mean between these two extremes. People value it not because it is a good but because they are too weak to do injustice with impunity.

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

For mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it. And thus, as I have shown, Socrates, injustice, when on a sufficient scale, has more strength and freedom and mastery than justice; and, as I said at first, justice is the interest of the stronger, whereas injustice is a man's own profit and interest. Thrasymachus

Listen, then, says the angry Sophist (Thrasymachus), I proclaim that might is right, and justice is the interest of the stronger. The different forms of government make laws, democratic, aristocratic, or autocratic, with a view to their respective interests; and these laws, so made by them to serve their interests, they deliver to their subjects as justice, and punish as unjust anyone who transgresses them.

he will find people there who, seeing the want, undertake the office of salesmen. In well-ordered states they are commonly those who are the weakest in bodily strength, and therefore of little use for any other purpose;

Berbaik hatilah, karena semua orang yang kau temui sedang berjuang dalam pertempuran yang lebih sulit.

Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy

And may we not say confidently of man also, that he who is likely to be gentle to his friends and acquaintances, must by nature be a lover of wisdom and knowledge? That we may safely affirm. Then he who is to be a really good and noble guardian of the State will require to unite in himself philosophy and spirit and swiftness and strength? Undoubtedly. Then we have found the desired natures; and now that we have found them, how are they to be reared and educated?

Do not expect justice where might is right.

Have you never observed how invincible and unconquerable is spirit and how the presence of it makes the soul of any creature to be absolutely fearless and indomitable?

Hé bien, prolonge pour moi la joie du festin, en continuant à répondre. Nous venons de voir que les hommes justes sont meilleurs, plus habiles et plus forts que les hommes injustes ; que ceux-ci ne peuvent rien faire de concert ; et c'était une supposition gratuite que de supposer que des gens injustes aient

Courage is a kind of salvation.

And things which are at their best are also least liable to be altered or discomposed; for example, when healthiest and strongest, the human frame is least liable to be affected by meats and drinks, and the plant which is in the fullest vigor also suffers least from winds or the heat of the sun or any similar causes. -Of course. -And will not the bravest and wisest soul be least confused or deranged by any external influence? -True.

Other sort of training, which aims at the acquisition of wealth or bodily strength, or mere cleverness apart from intelligence and justice, is mean and illiberal, and is not worthy to be called education at all.

There are two things which should be cultivated in the soul: first, the greatest courage; secondly, the greatest fear.

un hombre valiente, que sepa combatir sus pasiones, sea resistiéndolas a pie firme, sea huyendo de ellas, porque el valor, Laques, se extiende a todas estas cosas.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

No one likes to be criticized, she admitted, but criticism can be something like the desert wind that, in whipping the tender corn stalks, forces them to strike their roots down deeper for security.

Sometimes we gotta be brave even when we're scared. We gotta not let being scared keep us from thinkin' straight. That's all brave is, boy, when you come right down to it, not lettin' the fear get you so turned around you start doin' stupid things, instead of what you know you ought to do.

Out here the wild things are healthy, the old trees whose roots find sustenance far below the ill-used layer of topsoil, the occasional rosebush gone to green thicket and thorns, the unstoppable kudzu. It is as if they have decided to take back the land for their own.

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.

We will not apologize for oour way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.