Quotes About Strength

If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.

The Mongols consumed a steady diet of meat, milk, yogurt, and other dairy products, and they fought men who lived on gruel made from various grains. The grain diet of the peasant warriors stunted their bones, rotted their teeth, and left them weak and prone to disease. In contrast, the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones.

He admonished them never to think of themselves as the strongest or smartest. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it, he warned. When the animals climb to the top of the mountain, they are even higher than it is.

the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets-and it's always in your face.

Wendre had appealed to Horn as no woman ever had. She had a man's mind and a woman's heart. She was self-reliant, proud, courageous. She grasped the situation quickly, accepted the odds, and did what had to be done without complaining. This was no spoiled child of empire, no sheltered darling of an all-powerful father; this was a woman fit to stand and fight beside any barbarian from the restless marches, made for love and ready to battle for it.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

Carrie lay on the bed and gazed at the ceiling. She was back in business. It was a day to remember. December 7, the same day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The next day America declared war on Japan. America declared war. And she was a whore again.

I do things my way -Lucky Santangelos

I think of pain differently now. There is pain that hurts, pain that is so bad you can no longer feel it. Your body just says 'hold on'.

You're a heroin Flinty McAlpine. I reckon you can do anything you set your mind to.

They never learn, fish. If they pulled against the line and kept pulling, they'd break it. But they give a tug and wait and hope we've gone away." He winked at her. "Always keep on fighting, Matilda my darlin'. Don't end like a fish.

The terrible thing about pain is that it doesn't matter, it still hurts. It hurts like hell.

Writers give readers courage – the courage to be utterly your complete and complex self. (In reference to Audre Lorde)

All that mattered was the blood. She had to bleed out the badness, bleed until she could breathe again.

The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.

In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

Sure and you've got to keep your own spitis up, for there's no one else will do that for you!

Farrah Fawcett had courage, she had strength, and she had faith.

Life is like a grindstone; whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of.

Kada ništa ne pomaže odem i gledam kamenoresca kako udara ?eki?em po velikom kamenu. Udari i stotinu puta, a na kamenu nema ni pukotine. Ipak, nakon stotinu i prvog udarca kamen pukne na pola...ja znam da nije pukao baš od toga udarca nego od svih prethodnih koji su zadani.

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.