#Strength Quotes

“To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe,And so your follies fight against yourself.Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight;And fight and die is death destroying death,Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.”

“Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.”

“To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.”

“Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.”

“What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.”

“Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.”

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”

“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.”

“What man dare, I dare.Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger;Take any shape but that, and my firm nervesShall never tremble.”

“Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.”

“Patience and fortitude conquer all things.”

“The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?”

“Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.”

“Valor consists in the power of self recovery.”

“Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard the sea, puffed up with winds, Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat? Have I not heard great ordinance in the field, And Heaven's artillery thunder in the skies? Have I not in a pitched battle heard Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang? And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, That gives not half so great a blow to hear As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire? Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs. Grumio: For he fears none.”

“Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine,Nor age so eat up my invention,Nor fortune made such havoc of my means,Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends,But they shall find awaked in such a kindBoth strength of limb and policy of mind,Ability in means, and choice of friends,To quit me of them throughly.”

“Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.”

“Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them.”

“I am a willow of the wilderness,Loving the wind that bent me.”

“As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”

“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.”

“Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.”

“I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities.”

“He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.”

“I have nothingOf woman in me; now from head to footI am marble-constant.”

“Our strength grows out of our weakness.”

“The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.”

“O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart.”

“That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; theirmastiffs are of unmatchable courage.”

“A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.”

“Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.”

“Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward... The stronger the advocate of monarchical principle a man may be, the more zealously he must now endeavor to fortify the Throne and to give to His Majesty's successor that strength which can only come from the love of a united nation and Empire.”

“Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.”

“Concentration is the secret of srength.”

“Never run away from anything. Never!”

“We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.”

“More can I bear than you dare execute.”

“I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom.”

“Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.”

“Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.”

“A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.”

“Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.”

“But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.”

“Love is fearless in the midstof the sea of fear.”

“Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.”

“He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.”

“When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.”

“My doom and my strength is to be solitary.”

“Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.”

“Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.”