Theodore Dreiser Quotes

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

Real gold fears no fire.

A gentleman can live through anything.

The stone is strong. Bran told himself, the roots of the trees go deep, and under the ground the Kings of Winter sit their thrones. So long as those remained, Winterfell remained. It was not dead, just broken. Like me, he thought. I'm not dead either.

It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

Women have a real talent for bearing up under hard times.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

Life is tough, but I'm tougher.

The most important talent for a shinobi is not the numberof jutsu. The important thing is... HAVING THE GUTS TO NEVER GIVE UP.

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.

Count 10 over him - he'll get up

I give it up to women who have the power to keep their spirit alive under very difficult circumstances.

You have to be very strong and tough-minded if you want to survive.

Simply to endure is to triumph.

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her.

The story of survival is a nice metaphor for our experience making this movie, finding your inner strength and powering through and getting to the endpoint alive.

All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.

If we don't be going strong, we're going weak, and we can't afford to go weak. We've got too many problems to do that.

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.

It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.