Quotes About Strength

Tom grinned. "It don't take no nerve to do somepin when there ain't nothin' else you can do.

Hay más belleza en la verdad, aunque sea una verdad terrible. Los narradores de historias de las ciudades falsean de tal manera la vida, que la hacen parecer dulce a los ojos de los perezosos, de los estúpidos y de los débiles, y eso sólo contribuye a reforzar sus flaquezas, sin enseñarles nada, ni hacerles el menor bien, ni engrandecer su corazón

don't mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don't want to get nibbled to death. There's a difference.

She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall.

Because they were not hurt or insulted, they were not defensive or combative. Because their dignity was intact, they had no need to be overbearing, and because the Cooper boys had never heard that they were inferior, their minds could grow to their true limits.

tell ya, a one-eye' fella got a hard row

an' a man, strong an' healthy, ain't never no burden.

Surely most men are destroyed, but there are others who like pillars of fire guide frightened men through the darkest. 'Thou mayest, thou mayest!' What glory! It is true that we are weak and sick and quarrelsome, but if that is all we ever were, we would, millenniums ago, have disappeared from the face of the earth.

Woman can change better'n man,'' ''Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.

The average skyscraper is likewise supported by a skeleton, of steel. Its skin, or walls, are supported by the frame; they do not support the building. When the wall of a skyscraper is pricked, it leaks air, and unless its skeleton has suffered a seriously deleterious blow, the building does not fall down.

Men, they were able to conjure it up immediately, that was one of their powers, that thunderous splashing as they stood lordly above the bowl. Everything about them was more direct, their insides weren't the maze women's were, for the pee to find its way through.

Getting old could be jolly, if you stayed strong.

Live. Live, brothers, though there be naught but shame and failure to furnish forth your living.

Men are absolutely shits, but we get them in the end because we can suffer better. A woman can outsuffer a man every time.

The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window. But unlike the piano, the tiger is designed to do this, and the impact is only the beginning.

What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?

Fear is not a sin in the taiga, but cow­ardice is [..].

Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic of the peasant of the white and purple toga of a senator. And yet in the weakest of men, in moments when they are alone and themselves, I have found veins of strength like gold in decaying rock; in the cruelest of men, flashes of tenderness and compassion; and in the vainest of men, moments of simplicity and grace.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Do not let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.

Sposobnost može da te dovede na vrh al da bi opstao na vrhu, potreban ti je karakter.

Make the best of what you've got; play the cards you are dealt. Walt Disney once said, "There is no education like adversity." However, to gain this education you must be tough enough to overcome adversity rather than allowing adversity to overcome you.

There is nothing stronger than gentleness

There is no education like adversity." However, to gain this education you must be tough enough to overcome adversity rather than allowing adversity to overcome you.