Quotes About Strength

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge; no fact can deflect their point of view.

Asema. You're forgetting. A people who see themselves primarily as victims are doomed. And we're not doomed, are we?

I put my hand on my chest and closed my eyes. I have a dinosaur heart, cold, massive, indestructible, a thick meaty red. And I have a glass heart, tiny and pink, that can be shattered. The glass heart belongs to Pollux. There was a ping. To my surprise, it had developed a minute crack, nearly invisible. But it was there, and it hurt.

You're forgetting. A people who see themselves primarily as victims are doomed. And we're not doomed, are we?

The heavy winds couldn't blow her off course. She continued. Even when her heart clenched and her skin turned crackling cold it didn't matter, because the pure and naked part of her went on.

Rockefeller advised Daniel O'Day that Standard Oil should develop its own strength in this area rather than turning to outsiders.

Those who refuse will be crushed.

He always possessed an unusual, self-protective capacity to suppress unpleasant memories and keep alive those things that fortified his resolve.

No governm[en]t could give us tranquillity and happiness at home, which did not possess sufficient stability and strength to make us respectable abroad.

John D. Rockefeller drew strength by simplifying reality and strongly believed that excessive reflection upon unpleasant but unalterable events only weakened one's resolve in the face of enemies.

It seems to me that as the cities grow larger the country in general becomes weaker.

Whatever his health problems, he gave an impression of rock-solid durability;

that he had hardly been ill in his life.

This refusal to truckle, bend, or bow to others, this insistence on dealing with other people on his own terms, time, and turf, distinguished Rockefeller throughout his career.

Instead of chiding him, John steadily advanced more money in 1884, retired his debts, provided income for his family, and rallied his bruised spirits, saying, "Keep a stiff upper lip, clean up as you go, and the skies will brighten by and bye.

Having weathered thirty years of assaults in the courts and statehouses, he must have felt invulnerable.

His tightly compressed lips expressed a fierce determination and a guarded nature.

I ran out of strong.

You've got scars, you're beat up, you're a different person, but you're through it.

No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum: big, strong, super-cool, with those Freon eyes of his. That's who I was pretending to be a minute ago - Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past. - Ben

Animals never cry. They don't go to pieces and call somebody and go through a box of Kleenex an hour.

You Men notice so little Pemberton, Physical strength is your genders sole advantage - Serena

Look, men, there is Jackson34 standing like a stone wall.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.