Quotes About Strength

Gwydion stood as a wolf at bay, his green eyes glittering, his teeth bared.

Its powers?' Dallben answered with a sad smile. 'My dear boy, this is a bit of metal hammered into a rather unattractive shape; it could better have been a pruning hook or a plow iron. Its powers? Like all weapons, only those held by him who wields it. What yours may be, I can in no wise say.

I have studied the race of men, Medwyn continued. I have seen that alone you stand as weak reeds by a lake. You must learn to help yourselves, that is true; but you must also learn to help one another.

Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.

Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.

Take pride in your pain, her mother had always told her. You are stronger than those who have none.

You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage.

Go, he said. This is your journey, your battle. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you love.

You will fail. Then they will kill you. - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.

She would die, Claire realized, before she would give up the love she felt for her son.

But their shoulders were as straight as they had been in the past: in the classroom, on the stage, at the Sabbath table. So there were other sources, too, of pride, and they had not left everything behind.

The guardians with their stern faces had no creative power. But they had strength and cunning, and they had found a way to steal and harness other people's powers for their own needs. They were forcing the children to describe the future they wanted, not the one that could be.

All of his strength and blood and breath were entering the earth now. His brain and spirit became part of the earth. He rose. He floated above, weightless, watching his human self labor and writhe. He gave himself to it willingly, traded himself for all that he loved and valued, and felt free.

You suggested, Jonas, that perhaps she wasn't brave enough? I don't know about bravery: what it is, what it means. I do know that I sat here numb with horror. Wretched with helplessness. And I listened as Rosemary told them that she would prefer to inject herself.

Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none.

You have the colors," The Giver told him. "And you have the courage. I will help you to have the strength.

Take your pride in your pain. You are stronger than those who have none.

The God of Thunder has

Kira, your leg will take a great deal out of me. I'll have to sleep, after, maybe for a whole day or even longer. And I don't have much time. She looked at him quizzically. Time for what? I'll explain. But for now, I think we should start. If I do it right away, I can sleep completely through the night and almost all of the morning. You can use that time to become accustomed to being whole... I [i]am[/i] whole, she said defiantly.

But somehow the small red-painted sled had become a symbol of courage and hope.

Enorgullécete de tu dolor –le decía siempre su madre–. Eres más fuerte que aquellos que no sienten ninguno.

Our gifts are our weaponry

Honor," he said firmly. "I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

I am the Fiercest of the Fierce.