Quotes About Strength

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime's worth of lessons.

You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.

Somehow I should have been able to say how strong and resilient you were, what a patient and abiding and bonding force, the softness that proved in the long run stronger than what it seemed to yield to...You are at once a lasting presence and an unhealed wound.

Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.

We're all tougher than we think we are. We're fixed so that almost anything heals.

She will burn bright until she goes out; she will go on standing on tiptoe till she falls.

He still wore, in the warming barracks, a muskrat cap with earlaps. Under it his eyes were gray as agates, as sudden as an elbow in the solar plexus.

She will burn bright until she goes out; she will go on standing on tiptoe until she falls.

What little strength he had left flowed out of him and was soaked up; his bones and veins and skin held nothing but tiredness and pain.

Their humor is underdog humor, a put-down of what is more powerful than they.

I can stand anything I have to stand!

I'm tired of hearing that the Lord shapes the back to the burden.

but she's as blunt as a splitting maul." She thinks about that, walking again.

That have I borne, this can I bear also.

You've got a resilient temperament, Mister Morgan," Sally said. "I have to compensate for a woman who lives in constant anxiety, depression, and alarm.

LightIs the lion that comes down to drink.

He is like a manIn the body of a violent beast.Its muscles are his own…The lion sleeps in the sun.Its nose is on its paws.It can kill a man.

the lion sleeps in the sun. its nose on its paws. it can kill a man.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

We are like water, aren't we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too." And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.

Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.

A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.