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.
"A lion does not ask permission before he eats a zebra."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood
"And another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust."Source: "Another One Bites the Dust" | Speaker: Queen
"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."Source: Gone with the Wind | Author: Margaret Mitchell
"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
"Do not call for Black power or green power. Call for brain power."Source: Campus Speeches, Quoted in the Chicago Tribune | Author: Barbara Jordan
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"Source: Battle of Bunker Hill | Speaker: William Prescott
"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
"Give me but one firm spot on which to stand and I will move the earth."Source: The Law of the Lever | Speaker: Archimedes
"I am vengeance! I am the night! I am Batman!"Source: Batman: The Animated Series | Speaker: Batman
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."Speaker: Voltaire
"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 only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."Source: Spoken before his death | Speaker: Nathan Hale
"I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith
"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 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 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 not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."Source: Batman Begins | Speaker: Batman
"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
"Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"Source: Adventures of Superman | Speaker: Men and Women
"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
"Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!"Source: Planet of the Apes | Speaker: George Taylor
"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe! You have to make it fall."Source: Libération | Speaker: Che Guevara
"We are never ever ever getting back together."Source: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together | Speaker: Taylor Swift
"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
"Yeah, that's the ticket!"Source: Saturday Night Live | Speaker: Tommy Flanagan, the Pathological Liar
"You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything."Source: "Building a Dream" in Oprah Magazine | Speaker: Oprah Winfrey
"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