Quotes About Strength

What makes the hero truly great is never, never to despair.

Fickle Fortune: A Fragment Though fickle Fortune has deceived me, She pormis'd fair and perform'd but ill; Of mistress, friends, and wealth bereav'd me, Yet I bear a heart shall support me still. I'll act with prudence as far 's I'm able, But if success I must never find, Then come misfortune, I bid thee welcome, I'll meet thee with an undaunted mind.

Man is a soldier and life must be fought.

Wine is strong, the king is strong, women are strong, but truth overcometh all things.

the MO Operation presented a golden opportunity, the chance to catch half of America's carrier strength with all of Japan's.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

Years later, a Japanese visitor tried to apologize to Mao for his country's invasion of China. Mao interrupted, "Should I not thank you instead?" Without a worthy opponent, he explained, a man or group cannot grow stronger.

Through our work and through getting what we need on our own, without depending on others, we can stand tall and realize our potential as humans.

Being attacked is a sign that you are important enough to be a target.

In life you must be a warrior, and war requires realism. While others may find beauty in endless dreams, warriors find it in reality, in awareness of limits, in making the most of what they have.

Worship Athena, not Ares.

ignore your weaknesses and resist the temptation to be more like others.

Some people, too, are inveterately passive: they are waiting for you to make the bold move, and if you don't, they will think you are weak.

em mim, e manter sob controle rigoroso

as Machiavelli said, it is better to be feared than loved. Fear you can control; love, never.

This is the essence of the surrender tactic: Inwardly you stay firm, but outwardly you bend.

Be like a slippery ball that cannot be held: Let no one know what gets to you, or where your weaknesses lie.

To show your frustration is to show that you have lost your power to shape events; it is the helpless action of the child who resorts to a hysterical fit to get his way. The powerful never reveal this kind of weakness.

The Way of the Samurai is in desperateness. Ten men or more cannot kill such a man. Common sense will not accomplish great things. Simply become insane and desperate.

Place your iron hand inside a velvet glove.

Power requires self-discipline.

In this world, where the game is played with loaded dice, a man must have a temper of iron, with armor proof to the blows of fate, and weapons to make his way against men. Life is one long battle; we have to fight at every step; and Voltaire very rightly says that if we succeed, it is at the point of the sword, and that we die with the weapon in our hand. —Arthur Schopenhauer

Remember: You have only so much energy and so much time. Every moment wasted on the affairs of others subtracts from your strength.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how. —Friedrich Nietzsche