Quotes About Strength

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.

What man dare, I dare:Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger;Take any shape but that, and my firm nervesShall never tremble.

I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

What though the mast be now blown overboard,The cable broke, the holding anchor lost,And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood?Yet lives our pilot still.

Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered with a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl?

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up,But to support him after.

O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar;Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

The king's name is a tower of strength.

Give me another horse! bind up my wounds!

This is Ercles' vein, a tyrant's vein.

My fate cries out,And makes each petty artery in this bodyAs hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.

I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

O tiger's heart wrapp'd in a woman's hide!

Thou lily-liver'd boy.

The very staff of my age, my very prop.

The force of his own merit makes his way.

Hang out our banners on the outward walls;The cry is still, "They come"; our castle's strengthWill laugh a siege to scorn.

In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.

Let the end try the man.

The strengthOf twenty men.

So shaken as we are, so wan with care.

As she would catch another AntonyIn her strong toil of grace.