Quotes about Strength

O Lord, to comfort myself as a man tomorrow in the day of battle.

Really cheerful people are usually the bravest...

The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.

Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs. He ate the white eggs to give himself strength. He ate them all through May to be strong in September and October for the truly big fish.

He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run. If I were him I would put in everything now and go until something broke. But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and able.

It is not bad," Santiago said. "And pain does not matter to a man.

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated

We are all broken — that's how the light gets in.

The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water'.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

One man with courage makes a majority.