Quotes about strength

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Quotes

  1. Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

  2. Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

  3. Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe.

  4. that which is impossible to force, it is impossible

    to hinder.

    p. 134

  5. It is never too late to reform, as long as you have the sense to desire it, and the strength to execute your purpose.

  6. No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.

  7. It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

  8. We know that crying is a good and natural thing. We know that crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength. Still, the weeping rips us root by tangled root from the earth, and we crash like fallen trees when we cry.

  9. A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

  10. There is always the right of the strong to take the weak and the rich to take the poor and the powerful to take those who have no power. UrLeyn may have written down our laws and changed a few of them, but the laws that still bind us to the animals cut the deepest. Men compete for power, they strut and parade and they impress their fellows with their possessions and they take the women they can. None of that has changed. They may use weapons other than their hands and teeth, they may use other men and they may express their dominance in money, not other symbols of power and glamour, but...

    p. 335

  11. How depressing, the Sleeper Service thought. That it should all come down to this; the person with the biggest stick prevails.

    p. 372

  12. The school of suffering tempers the spirit, the arena of combat strengthens the soul.