Friedrich Nietzsche Strength Quotations

I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.

A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings...

We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.