Quotes About Strength

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places.

Never be daunted

You'll ache. And you're going to love it. It will crush you. And you're still going to love all of it.

You roll back to me.

He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

You don't have to destroy me. Do you? ...

Man is not made for defeat.

By guts I mean, grace under pressure

We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.

Grace under pressure.

Strong in all the Broken Places

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

No Pilar, Agustin said. You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart.

He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.

They are strong," David said. "But there's a strong wind today and we drink according to the wind.

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.