Quotes About Strength

You break your neck, and I'll see it mended just so I can break it again. ~ Nynaeve

the wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses

I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be.

A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf's eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive.

There was a wild light in his eyes. Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.

Hardness shatters; strength endures.

Nobody walks a difficult path without stumbling now and again. It didn't break you when you fell. That's the important part.

Remember the flame, lad, and the void." It was an odd thing Tam had taught him. Concentrate on a single flame and feed all your passions into it—fear, hate, anger—until your mind became empty. Become one with the void, Tam said, and you could do anything.

Anything can be a weapon, if the man or woman who holds it has the nerve and will to make it so.

Moiraine: It seems Ryne was wrong as well as a Darkfriend. You were better than he. Lan: He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

He did not think anyone needed to look after Nynaeve; around Nynaeve, to his mind, other people needed someone to look after them.

Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.

For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.

Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. He does not look so mighty lying there, he said wonderingly. He does not look so much greater than me.

She was a soldier, a warrior in her way as much as I. This could have happened two hundred times these past twenty years. She knew it, and so did I. It was a good day to die.

But hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself.

The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor. -Logain

You can't give up. You can't ever give up. If you give up you might as well be dead.

Knock a man down, and you saw what he was made of. That man might run. If he didn't—if he stood back up with blood at the corner of his mouth and determination in his eyes—then you knew. That man was about to become truly dangerous.

I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

If you have a sword, and the Aielman has his bare hands, it is an even fight. If you're good.

Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.

They will pay. I am the Lord of the Morning

Only a fool thinks a lion or a woman can truly be tamed.