Quotes about strength

‘‘This isn’t some stupid storybook where the underdog wins in the end. This is the real world. The strongest do what they want, and everyone else has to live with it. Or”—she glanced significantly at Isaac—“not.”

“The strongest don’t always get what they want,” she said to Ending. “Not when the weak can work together.”

Those of us who survive must indeed be a tough people.

To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty, but in this frailty there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else’s.

Satyagraha is the strategy of those who reject solutions that compromise the freedom or integrity of any participant. Gandhi always said it is the weapon of the strong because it requires heroic restraint and the courage to forgive. He turned the whole idea of power upside down. When he visited the mountain hideout of Indian militants and saw their guns, he said, "You must be very frightened." p. 200

Strength comes not from avoiding suffering, but from enduring it with grace and resilience.

Our bodies may be fragile, but our spirits are unbreakable

Justice without might is helpless; might without justice is tyrannical.

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

If the strong can bully the weak without shame, then how are we different from the beasts of forest and field?

Oberyn was ever the viper. Deadly, dangerous, unpredictable. No man dared tread on him. I was the grass. Pleasant, complaisant, sweet-smelling, swaying with every breeze. Who fears to walk upon the grass? But it is the grass that hides the viper from his enemies and shelters him until he strikes.