Strength

Strength and honor.

Maximus

I do not fear death.

Aragorn

This too shall pass.

Hebrew saying

Give me Liberty or give me death!

Patrick Henry

A gentleman can live through anything.

William Faulkner

Courage, Merry, courage for our friends.

Eowyn

Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive.

Ferris

I never needed external forces to motivate me.

Kobe Bryant

Defeat—I do not recognise the meaning of the word!

Margaret Thatcher

You have to fight. You have to fight to the death.

Joe Fox

I just want them to know that they didn’t break me.

Andie

Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

John Dryden

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

John F. Kennedy

You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Rhett Butler

You have to train your mind like you train your body.

Bruce Jenner

I was no longer scared. I could see what was inside me.

Amy Tan

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Margaret Thatcher

If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear.

Misattributed to Kobe Bryant

Damaged people are dangerous; they know they can survive.

Anna

You have to take sides. You have to fight the good fight.

Epstein

Football doesn’t build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Darrell Royal

The more people fuck with me the more I want to gut it out.

Lt. Jordan O'Neil

Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air

Sylvia Plath

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Misattributed to Marcus Aurelius

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

Piglet

Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.

Euripides

He who has a 'why' to live for, can bear with almost any 'how'

Friedrich Nietzsche

Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Muhammad Ali

When the fight begins within himself, A man ‘s worth something.

Robert Browning

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Confucius

You must become more than just a man in the mind of your opponent.

Henri Ducard

Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for?

Gimli

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

Sun Tzu

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

Marcus Aurelius

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

Mark Twain

When anyone tells me I can’t do anything, I’m just not listening anymore.

Florence Griffith-Joyner

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Maya Angelou

The world breaks us all. Afterward, some are stronger at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway

Better to die on your feet than to live the rest of your life on your knees.

Emiliano Zapata

Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.

II Timothy

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Muhammad Ali

I want you to stop trying to control my life just because you can’t control yours!

Kat

You can be born in a fucking sewer and still be the baddest motherfucker on earth.

David Goggins

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

Rudyard Kipling

God has taken you this far down the road. He won't abandon you now. I know He won't.

Claire

Here one must leave behind all hesitation; here every cowardice must meet its death.

Dante Alighieri

Everything negative -- pressure, challenges -- is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Misattributed to Kobe Bryant

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Misattributed to Christopher Robin

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

He has just as much reason to go to war as you do. Why can he not fight for those he loves?

Eowyn

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does — that makes you a winner right there.

Venus Williams

We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

Kobe Bryant

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

Kate Chopin

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

General George S. Patton, Jr.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Maya Angelou

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

Misattributed to Marcus Aurelius

Pain unlocks a secret doorway in the mind, one that leads to both peak performance, and beautiful silence.

David Goggins

The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

Sun Tzu

There is no defeat in death, Master Bruce. Victory comes in defending what we know is right while we still live.

Alfred

Just like moons and like suns, / With the certainty of tides, / Just like hopes springing high, / Still I'll rise.

Maya Angelou

I would go 0-for-30 before I would go 0-for-9. 0-for-9 means you beat yourself, you psyched yourself out of the game.

Kobe Bryant

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

Kobe Bryant

It's a lot more than mind over matter. It takes relentless self discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day.

David Goggins

The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.

William Jennings Bryan

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Maya Angelou

When someone is cruel, or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level — no, our motto is, when they go low, we go high.

Michelle Obama

All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us… they can’t get away this time.

Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Master Chief

A prepared mind craves the worst conditions because it knows that pressure brings out its best and exposes almost everyone else.

David Goggins

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Winston Churchill

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon...which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Sun Tzu

You may write me down in history / With your bitter, twisted lies, / You may trod me in the very dirt / But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Maya Angelou

Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots.

Sun Tzu

The hard part is getting to that point, because the ticket to victory often comes down to bringing your very best when you feel your worst.

David Goggins

The heroic actions are performed by such as are oppressed by the meanness of their lives. As in thickest darkness the stars shine brightest.

Henry David Thoreau

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Hebrew Psalms, 23:4

A man provides. And he does it even when he’s not appreciated, or respected, or even loved. He simply bears up and he does it. Because he’s a man.

Gus

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

Lou Mannheim

Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn’t even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Somewhere down there, there’s a tiny sliver of green just taking its time. This is how everything works. You wait. You lay low. And then you come to life.

Carrie

I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts. I won’t let her change me, I promised myself. I won’t be what I’m not.

Amy Tan

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Helen Keller

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.

John Steinbeck

If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it. And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgment now.

Marcus Aurelius