Quotes About Strength

The obstinacy on which power is based is never so fragile as in the moment of its triumph.

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Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness

strong actors have a lower interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is not at stake, whereas weak actors have a high interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is at stake.

strong actors have a lower interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is not at stake, whereas weak actors have a high interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is at stake. A strong actor's low interests imply high political vulnerability, and a weak actor's high interests imply low political vulnerability.

Gram is . . . is herself again, I'll have

The saying is that what does not kill you strengthens you, but sometimes you wonder which will happen first.

You don't have to look a certain way to be a tomboy. Don't let anyone tell you that, ever, and please don't find that here in my words. Tomboy thrums in your heart. It's in your head. It's what is holding your spine in place. It can't be hidden by a haircut. It's not about nail polish or not. It's running right now in your veins. If it is in you, you already know. Tomboy blood is so much bigger than the outside of you.

Thou shalt not let the world make you hard

Some of us have hard roads, but the Lord never gives anyone a burden without also giving them a gift. Your job is to find out what that gift is and use it, y'hear me? God doesn't make mistakes. Never forget that. You are exactly who God meant you to be.

She worries because she fears what the world might do to you, and because she doesn't know any successful tattooed butch storytellers with biceps and a brush cut. Yet.

People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.

And as in the opinion of many authorities the last word concerning explosives has not yet been said, in the war of the future, especially if it should take place some years from now, explosives of such strength will be employed that the concentration of armies in the open field, or even under the cover of fortifications, will be almost impossible, so that the apparatus of war prepared at the present time may prove itself useless.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

What a brave man she was, and what a good woman.

They would beat him and hammer him and drill him. He bobbed, and ducked, and refused to fall. They struck out, as if they were driving nails into him, and with every blow he felt more like himself

Wspania?e w?osy to najlepsza zemsta.

Biti ?ovek, ro?en bez svoga znanja i bez svoje volje, ba?en u okean postojanja. Morati plivati. Postojati. Nositi identitet. Izdržati atmosferski pritisak svega oko sebe, sve sudare, nepredvidljive i nepredvi?ene postupke, svoje i tu?e, koji ponaj?eš?e nisu po meri naših snaga. A povrh svega, treba još izdržati i svoju misao o svemu tome. Ukratko: biti ?ovek

Životna snaga jednog ?oveka meri se, pored ostalog, i njegovom sposobnoš?u zaboravljanja.

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

An economy made of paper could never be as strong as one of bricks, guns and widgets.

Lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt.

Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.

When the netted fence of spiderwebs that darkens my ruined house can hold the wind in its strands- that's when these troubled thoughts will blow away. . . .