Quotes About Strength

I'm not scared," she says defiantly. "If the devil wanted me, he would have come for me when he got Chelsea.

My curiosity was more powerful than my fear.

Authority." I say the word as if it's a foreign expression I've heard for the very first time. "What about me makes you think that's a word I care for or yield to?

As she once remarked, "Disobedience is my joy.

Speech is one of the few abilities that human beings share across all creeds, faiths, races, and ethnicities. By nature, it connects us, it strengthens us, and it empowers us. Speech as affirmation or as dissent should be cherished and respected.

Você resiste ao medo negando-o

Some call it prayer. And as with all prayers, it comes down to either asking someone else to fight for you, or asking yourself to fight.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because . . . it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Nothing is lost while courage remains.

This is a time to try men of force and vision and not to be exclusively confined to those who are judged safe by conventional standards.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just, and when they wish to be just they are often no longer strong

we may show mercy Ã¢â'¬â€œ we shall ask for none.

This is no time for ease and comfort,' he said in reference to the extension of rationing. 'It is the time to dare and endure.

Many people say I ought to have retired after the war, and have become some sort of elder statesman, but how could I? I have fought all my life and cannot give up fighting now!

pluck, courage, resourcefulness

True heroism consists of being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge to the combat.' Napoleon on board HMS Northumberland, 1815

We don't let them rest,' said General Kurt Wallenius of the Finnish Northern Army; 'we don't let them sleep. This is a war of numbers against brains.

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. 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.

He trusted that they would be enabled to further the progress already made in rebuilding the domestic stability and economic strength of the United Kingdom and in weaving still more closely the threads which bound together the countries of the Commonwealth, or, as he still preferred to call it, the Empire.'183

When Averell Harriman tried to console Churchill by saying that under the proportional representation system he would still have been prime minister, of a Conservative–Liberal coalition, he indignantly rejected the idea, saying, 'I will fight against the evils of proportional representation with all my strength,' and explained that democracy could succeed only if the people knew which party was accountable and responsible for the decisions taken in government

take it.' London could take anything. My heart goes

How few men are strong enough to stand against the prevailing currents of opinion!

I have never been seduced by prosperity; adversity shall find me superior to its blows.'79

Though he was eighteen months younger than Joseph, Napoleon was always stronger-willed.)