Strength Quotes
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Strength Quotes
Here at Shmoop we aspire to the physical strength of Arnold Schwarzenegger combined with the moral strength of Atticus Finch. Click on any strength quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."Source: 80 million United States Postage stamps | Author: Maya Angelou
"A lion does not ask permission before he eats a zebra."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood
"Adrian!"Source: Rocky | Speaker: Rocky Balboa
"And another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust."Source: "Another One Bites the Dust" | Speaker: Queen
"And she shaved his head, and his strength went from him."Source: Judges 16:17, 19 | Author: Author of Judges
"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."Source: Gone with the Wind | Author: Margaret Mitchell
"As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together."Source: Journey to the Center of the Earth | Author: Jules Verne
"Bam!"Source: Emeril Live | Speaker: Emeril Lagasse
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."Source: Brave New World | Author: Aldous Huxley
"But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"But you just gotta understand that that’s the way it is and keep on steppin'."Source: The Watsons Go to Birmingham | Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
"Could be raining."Source: Young Frankenstein | Speaker: Igor
"Do not call for Black power or green power. Call for brain power."Source: Campus Speeches, Quoted in the Chicago Tribune | Author: Barbara Jordan
"Do you believe in miracles?"Source: 1980 Winter Olympics | Speaker: Al Michaels
"Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?"Source: "Don't Cha" | Speaker: The Pussycat Dolls
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"Source: Battle of Bunker Hill | Speaker: William Prescott
"Don't stop believin'."Source: Don't Stop Believin' | Speaker: Journey
"Don't you know I'm still standing better than I ever did."Source: "I'm Still Standing" | Speaker: Elton John
"Do…or do not. There is no try."Source: Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back | Speaker: Yoda
"Earn this. Earn it."Source: Saving Private Ryan | Speaker: Captain James Miller
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."Source: Coraline | Author: Neil Gaiman & G.K. Chesterton
"Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife."Source: Gladiator | Speaker: Maximus Decimus Meridius
"For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."Source: The Plague | Author: Albert Camus
"Get up offa that thing and dance 'till you feel better!"Source: Get Up Offa That Thing | Speaker: James Brown
"Give me but one firm spot on which to stand and I will move the earth."Source: The Law of the Lever | Speaker: Archimedes
"Give me some of your tots."Source: Napoleon Dynamite | Speaker: Randy
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."Source: Psalms 46:1-3 | Author: Author of Psalms
"Hey sista, go sista…"Source: "Lady Marmalade" | Speaker: Robert Crewe and Kenny Nolan
"I ain't no hollaback girl."Source: Hollaback Girl | Speaker: Gwen Stefani
"I ain't so tough."Source: The Public Enemy | Speaker: Tom Powers
"I am Groot."Source: Guardians of the Galaxy | Speaker: Groot
"I am not afraid; I was born to do this."Source: Spoken as she left the town of Vancouleurs | Speaker: Joan of Arc
"I am the greatest!"Source: Spoken | Speaker: Muhammad Ali
"I am the one who knocks."Source: Breaking Bad | Speaker: Walter White
"I am vengeance! I am the night! I am Batman!"Source: Batman: The Animated Series | Speaker: Batman
"I came in like a wrecking ball"Source: "Wrecking Ball" | Speaker: Miley Cyrus
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."Speaker: Voltaire
"I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself."Source: Heart of Darkness | Author: Joseph Conrad
"I don't want no scrub."Source: No Scrubs | Speaker: TLC
"I have been starved out, felt up, teased, stalked, threatened, and called Taylor Swift."Source: Orange Is the New Black | Speaker: Piper Chapman
"I have not yet begun to fight."Source: Spoken on September 23, 1779 | Speaker: Captain John Paul Jones
"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."Source: Moby-Dick | Author: Herman Melville
"I love it when a plan comes together."Source: The A-Team | Speaker: John "Hannibal" Smith
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."Source: 1780 Letter | Author: John Adams
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."Source: Spoken before his death | Speaker: Nathan Hale
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am."Source: The Bell Jar | Author: Sylvia Plath
"I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith
"I'm a smart, strong, sensual woman."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher
"I'm Spartacus!"Source: Spartacus | Speaker: Antonius
"I've got a blank space, baby, and I'll write your name."Source: Blank Space | Speaker: Taylor Swift
"I've got all my life to live and I've got all my love to give"Source: I Will Survive | Speaker: Gloria Gaynor
"If the apocalypse comes, beep me."Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Speaker: Buffy Summers
"If you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it."Source: Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) | Speaker: Beyoncé
"In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight."Source: The Lion Sleeps Tonight | Speaker: The Tokens
"It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma."Source: BBC Radio Broadcast | Speaker: Winston Churchill
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."Source: The Origin of the Species | Speaker: Charles Darwin
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Author: J.K. Rowling
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life."Source: Star Trek: The Next Generation | Speaker: Jean-Luc Picard
"It's been a hard day's night."Source: "A Hard Day's Night" | Speaker: John Lennon and Paul McCartney
"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."Source: Batman Begins | Speaker: Batman
"I’d rather be a hammer than a nail"Source: "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)" | Speaker: Simon and Garfunkel
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."Source: Unknown | Speaker: Ella Fitzgerald
"Just keep swimming."Source: Finding Nemo | Speaker: Dory
"Let the sky fall. When it crumbles, we will stand tall."Source: "Skyfall" | Speaker: Adele
"Let's be careful out there."Source: Hill Street Blues | Speaker: Sergeant Phil Esterhaus
"Let's get ready to rumble!"Source: Professional Wrestling | Speaker: Michael Buffer
"Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"Source: Adventures of Superman | Speaker: Men and Women
"Makes me that much stronger"Source: "Fighter" | Speaker: Christina Aguilera
"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing."Source: Animal Farm | Author: George Orwell
"May the Force be with you."Source: Star Wars | Speaker: Han Solo
"Mr. Christian!"Source: Mutiny on the Bounty | Speaker: Captain Bligh
"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast."Source: The Mourning Bride | Author: William Congreve
"My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth."Source: Job 19:20 | Author: Job
"My soul has grown deep like the rivers."Source: The Negro Speaks of Rivers | Author: Langston Hughes
"No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!"Source: Goldfinger | Speaker: Auric Goldfinger
"Nobody puts Baby in a corner."Source: Dirty Dancing | Speaker: Johnny Castle
"Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything."Source: A Wrinkle in Time | Author: Madeleine L'Engle
"Our deepest fear is not that we are weak. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."Source: 1994 Inaugural Address | Speaker: Nelson Mandela
"Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God"Source: Romans 12:1 | Author: Paul of Tarsus
"Real courage is [...] when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"Resistance is futile."Source: Star Trek: The Next Generation | Speaker: The Borg
"Run, Forrest, run!"Source: Forrest Gump | Speaker: Jenny Curran
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."Source: Up from Slavery: An Autobiography | Author: Booker T. Washington
"Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!"Source: Planet of the Apes | Speaker: George Taylor
"That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."Source: The Gettysburg Address | Author: Abraham Lincoln
"The pen is mightier than the sword."Source: Richelieu | Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe! You have to make it fall."Source: Libération | Speaker: Che Guevara
"The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."Source: The Old Curiosity Shop | Author: Charles Dickens
"The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat"Source: Wide World of Sports | Speaker: Jim McKay
"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places."Source: A Farewell to Arms | Author: Ernest Hemingway
"There can be only one."Source: Highlander | Speaker: The Kurgan
"They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end."Source: Psalm 107:27 | Author: Psalmist
"They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other."Source: Crime and Punishment | Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"This is the people's war!"Source: Mrs. Miniver | Speaker: The Vicar
"Time for the charm bomb to explode."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher
"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."Source: The Pride of the Yankees | Speaker: Lou Gehrig
"Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink."Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Wax on, wax off."Source: The Karate Kid | Speaker: Mr. Miyagi
"We are never ever ever getting back together."Source: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together | Speaker: Taylor Swift
"We are not makers of history; we are made by history."Source: Strength to Love | Author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We are the champions, my friends, and we'll keep on fighting 'til the end."Source: We Are the Champions | Speaker: Queen
"We don't need another hero"Source: "We Don't Need Another Hero" | Speaker: Tina Turner
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."Source: Letter to William Henry Harrison | Author: Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
"We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding
"What I do have is a particular set of skills."Source: Taken | Speaker: Bryan Mills
"When a problem comes along, you must whip it."Source: "Whip It" | Speaker: Devo
"Yeah, that's the ticket!"Source: Saturday Night Live | Speaker: Tommy Flanagan, the Pathological Liar
"You are beautiful, no matter what they say."Source: Beautiful | Speaker: Christina Aguilera
"You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything."Source: "Building a Dream" in Oprah Magazine | Speaker: Oprah Winfrey
"You better work."Source: "Supermodel" | Speaker: RuPaul
"You can stand under my umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh."Source: Umbrella | Speaker: Rihanna
"You come at the king, you best not miss."Source: The Wire | Speaker: Omar Little
"You held me down, but I got up."Source: "Roar" | Speaker: Katy Perry
"You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life | Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."Source: No Country for Old Men | Author: Cormac McCarthy
"You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith
"You want weapons. We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world."Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: Tenth Doctor
"You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."Source: The Incredible Hulk | Speaker: Dr. David Banner
"You're gonna need a bigger boat."Source: Jaws | Speaker: Brody
"You're good. You're very good."Source: The Maltese Falcon | Speaker: Sam Spade
"Zoinks!"Source: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! | Speaker: Shaggy