I am a tough guy.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

I like a man who grins when he fights.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

I want people to draw strength from me.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male – or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you’ll see what I mean.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Character is power.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

I know why we’re strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it’s because there’s always been a growing middle class.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Man is not made for defeat.

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

‚I’ll be back‘ always sounded a little girly to me.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I’m drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

What’s with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

I don’t regard myself as a cracking good climber. I’m just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I’m good on ice.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.