Quotes About Strength

So she sees if she can drive him off. The MacCarrolls have that little perverse streak in them. She'd rather break her own heart than have it broken. There's an Irish logic to it.

My hope has a small h.

She'd rather break her own heart than have it broken.

Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it's definitely a Thing with Claws.

Women carry on. They endure the way old ships do, breasting into outrageous waters, ache and creak, hull holed and decks awash, yet find anchorage in the ordinary, in tables to be wiped down, pots to scrub, and endless ashes to be put out.

We go out into this fucked up world together.

The thing is, though, every time I think I'm just gonna give up—that I can't possibly do it, that I'm just going to curl up alone somewhere and waste away, well, I always keep trying. I mean, for some reason I manage to make it through another day and then another day after that.

It seems like there is something about sharing your insides with the world that gives other people strength and hope and helps them not to feel so alone.

Asking for money is a proclamation of your own unfitness for survival. It's saying, 'I am the weak one of the herd.

Piénsalo bien y reconoce que no hay amigo como el árbol, adonde quiera que te vuelvas siempre lo encuentras a tu lado, vayas pisando tierra firme o móvil mar alborotado, estés meciéndote en la cuna o bien un día agonizando, más fiel que el vidrio del espejo y más sumiso que un esclavo.

If you behave as if you are all right, then one day you will be. You have to go through the motions of surviving in order to survive.

Pauline had once said to me, after she was through the worst of her stunned unhappiness, that if you behave as if you are all right, then one day you will be.

Anger should be a weapon to be used discriminately, not a weakness and a loss of control.

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

Devi avere paura degli uomini, non dei mostri.

A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

A coward cannot have any prayer answered.

Do not go about complaining how hard it is to live in this world. such behavior is entirely unworthy of a real man.

For a man who had been in action 120 times by the age of thirty-nine, Nelson was bearing up well,

The Royal Navy was waiting for them outside, but its ships were thinly spread and heavily outnumbered.

They thought him pusillanimous,