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Quotes About Strength

Ought not to daunt you. Never be daunted. Secret of my success. Never been daunted. Never been daunted in public.
~ Ernest Hemingway
And pain does not matter to a man.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
~ Ernest Hemingway
THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO It is necessary to be very strong against something
~ Ernest Hemingway
You know it makes me feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Now you are getting confused in the head, he thought. You must keep your head clear. Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The world breaks everyone and later many are strong at the broken places.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Fight them," he said. "I'll fight them until I die.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The dentuso is cruel and able and strong and intelligent. But I was more intelligent than he was. Perhaps not, he thought. Perhaps I was only better armed.
~ Ernest Hemingway
In writing there are many secrets too. Nothing is ever lost no matter how it seems at the time and what is left out will always show and make the strength of what is left in.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I may not be as strong as I think,' the old man said, 'But I know many tricks and I have resolution.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Ma di cosa sei fatta, tu? Di quello che ami disse lei. Più l'acciaio.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If the people show too much courage on this world, the society must choke them to break them - and by that, of course, kill them. The society breaks everyone, but after that many become stronger on that broken places. And those it cannot broke, it kills them.
~ Ernest Hemingway
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beach.
~ Ernest Hemingway
We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Pero el hombre no está hecho para la derrota —dijo—. Un hombre puede ser destruido, pero no derrotado.
~ Ernest Hemingway
THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO I thought the pain alone would kill me
~ Ernest Hemingway
the world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places
~ Ernest Hemingway
He was probably a coward," she said. "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." "I don't know. It's hard to see inside the head of the brave." "Yes. That's how they keep that way.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It was higher than a big scythe blade and a very pale lavender above the dark blue water. It raked back and as the fish swam just below the surface the old man could see his huge bulk and the purple stripes that banded him. His dorsal fin was down and his huge pectorals were spread wide.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Ara went down and Thomas Hudson was alone with the night and the sea and he still rode it like a horse going downhill too fast across broken country.
~ Ernest Hemingway
he who ruleth his spirit is greater than he that taketh a city
~ Ernest Hemingway
El hombre no está hecho para la derrota; un hombre puede ser destruido, pero no derrotado.
~ Ernest Hemingway