Quotes About Strength

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Lying is for the weak-minded. If you can't think of a truthful way to solve your problems, you're not thinking hard enough.

Besides, dressing like I want to be invisible only makes me feel weak. I have to be strong. So if that means wearing cute boots and nice pants and a sweet blue shirt that looks especially good on me today for some reason if I do say so myself, then so be it.

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

So often we are too apologetic for our shortcomings, when we should be accepting, even celebrating ourselves – warts and all. If you are hard on yourself, others will be hard on you. If you come from a place of strength, your relationships will be strong. The truth is people can only accept you as much as you can accept yourself. Every important relationship in your life is a reflection of how you feel about yourself." - Robin Fisher Roffer

Who are you? Just because you break hearts doesn't make you a heartbreaker. Just because you get straight A's doesn't make you a success. Just because you have a college consultant doesn't make you college bound. Just because you fail to act doesn't make you cowardly. Just because you need help, doesn't make you weak. Just because the world sees you as something or as nothing doesn't mean anything at all.

I am Roland of Gilead. And you . . . you are nothing.

I think the best people, the ones who have reached the highest plateaus as human beings, are those who have known a great deal of adversity and have dealt with it and then moved ahead.

Mein Vater hat mich gelehrt, dass man zwar verlieren, aber nie aufgeben darf. (Patrick Swayze)

For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.

One does not need the size of a dragon to have the soul of a dragon.

Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey.

We are pack!

To finally confront the worst there is, to look it squarely in the face and say, "I know you. You have hurt me, almost to death, but still I live. And I will go on living.

It was inside me. The more I sought it, the stronger it grew. It loved me. Loved me even if I couldn't, wouldn't, didn't love myself. Love me even if I hated. It set its tiny teeth in my soul and braced and held so that I couldn't crawl any further. And when I tried, a howl of despair burst from it, searing me, forbidding me to break so sacred trust. It was Smithy.

When you see me loyal to my family, then you see the wolf.

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

Many will rant and rave against the garment fate has woven for them, but they pick it up and don it all the same, and most wear it to the end of their days. You... you would rather go naked into the storm.

Maybe you have to keep your pain and loss to know that you can survive whatever life deals you. Perhaps without putting your pain in its place in your life, you became something of a coward.

You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same. Don't waste time on it.

And tomorrow we'll do the same again. And again. Until one day you get up and find out that whatever it was didn't kill you after all.