I am a tough guy.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.

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.

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

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‚We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.‘

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

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

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

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

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.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

I defy gravity.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

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

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

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

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

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

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

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

I’ve got a great sense of humor.

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

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

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.

I’m so not macho. It’s crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

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

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.