Quotes About Strength

With the physique of a bank safe, he was the embodiment of quiet strength.

Churchill slept well, not even waking when the all clear sounded at three forty-five A.M. He always slept well. His ability

Churchill saw the relationship in succinct terms. "Some take drugs," he said. "I take Max.

A Grape-Nuts ad dealt with warfare, but of the schoolyard variety, extolling the cereal's value in helping children prevail in fistfights: "Husky bodies and stout nerves depend—more often than we think—on the food eaten.

Always remember, Clemmie, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down.

Here, as in other speeches, Churchill demonstrated a striking trait: his knack for making people feel loftier, stronger, and, above all, more courageous.

We shall go on to the end," he said, in a crescendo of ferocity and confidence. "We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender—

We were like a fire triangle, he was the oxygen, I was the flame, and together we made the fuel. All mixed together we were a fire.

I wanted to be a good person, compassionate, regardless of what was said or done to me. That was the standard I held for myself, the way I'd managed to survive all those years. I wouldn't give in to hatred. "I

Now you bitches can stand here quaking in your boots about what your women might do to you. I'm going to get my woman.

I'm not naturally tough. I've learned to be tough through rubbing elbows with the police.

He had to have someone else give him advice. That's the trouble with him. He's never learned to stand on his own two feet and take things as they come.

he did not believe in philanthropy, thinking that the ultimate purpose of life was to develop character; that the more a person came to depend on outside assistance, the more his character was weakened.

Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.

When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.

In this view, man is an energy-converting organism who must exert his manipulative powers, who must damage his world in some ways, who must make it uncomfortable for others, etc., by his own nature as an active being. He seeks self-expansion from a very uncertain power base. Even if man hurts others, it is because he is weak and afraid, not because he is confident and cruel. Rousseau summed up this point of view with the idea that only the strong person can be ethical, not the weak one.

If we don't have the omnipotence of gods, we at least can destroy like the gods.

modern man is the victim of his own disillusionment; he has been disinherited by his own analytic strength.

The human ego would have to become strong enough to die; and strong enough to set aside guilt… . [F]ull psychoanalytic consciousness would be strong enough to cancel the debt [of guilt] by deriving it from infantile fantasy.7

Through endurance we conquer.

I'm not brave any more darling. I'm all broken. They've broken me.

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.