Quotes About Strength

Those instructors have watched men drop, watched them fail, watched them quit, and watched them quietly, with ice-cold, expressionless faces. That's not heartless; it's because they were only interested in the others, the ones who did not crack or quit. The ones who would rather die than quit. The ones with no quit in them.

The only way out of hell is to walk right through it. When you do, it always helps to have your brothers by your side.

The more we fear, the more we need them. And the more we need them, the more powerful they get.

To bear your weaponry so blatantly before you, to move through the world as a nightmare. The spider regarded him, and he regarded the spider.

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Turning the other cheek was a lovely sentiment, but in the real world, it mostly resulted in matching bruises. Better

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You have life written all over you. Some people bear tragedy on their faces; loss, death, whatever it might be. But you have life.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

I believe in the unsubmissive, the unfaltering, the unassailable, the irresistible, the unbelievable — in other words, in an art of life.

Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

May I never grow so strong that my heart cannot be moved. May I never grow so weak that I fear to speak the truth.

The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

These days, I strive to be a bitch, because not being one sucks. Not being a bitch means not having your voice heard. Not being a bitch means you agree with all the bullshit. Not being a bitch means you don't appreciate all the other bitches who have come before you. Not being a bitch means since Eve ate that apple, we will forever have to pay for her bitchiness with complacence, obedience, acceptance, closed eyes, and opened legs.

I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.

The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? —Psalms 27:1