Quotes About Strength

I have myself to face a world which is tragic without becoming tragic myself.

She "never exactly understood," she would say in after years, "how he managed to strengthen her. It was as if he had made her see the whole of everything at once.

He picked up his friend, who was so weak that he began to cry. "Maurice – I'm a fool." "Be a fool," said Maurice, and carried him upstairs, undressed him, and put him to bed.

He never did his dumb-bells or played in his school fifteen. But the muscles came. He thinks they came while he was reading Pindar.

The complexion of his mind turned from human to political. He thought no longer, "Can I get on with people?" but "Are they stronger than I?" breathing the prevalent miasma.

Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians. Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead to nowhere. With infinite effort we nerve ourselves for a crisis that never comes. The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have moved mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of a man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

Man, the flower of all flesh, the noblest of all creatures visible, man who had once made god in his image, and had mirrored his strength on the constellations, beautiful naked man was dying, strangled in the garments that he had woven.

beacon in the roaring tides of darkness.

A man who has been through hell does not boast of his virility. He is humble and hides it, if, indeed, it still exists.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him — that is the best account of it that has yet been given. Squalor and tragedy can beckon to all that is great in us, and strengthen the wings of love. They can beckon; it is not certain that they will, for they are not love's servants. But they can beckon, and the knowledge of this incredible truth comforted him.

If someone creates a Nobel Prize for Unsung Hero, my nominee will be the divorced single mother

A man who is strong and tough never needs to show it in his dress or the way he cuts his hair. Toughness is a quality of the mind, like bravery or honesty or ambition; it has nothing whatever to do with muscles.

Mostly you realize you can handle it. You'd rather turn it all upside down and dump it out and watch it scatter and disappear. You'd rather do that, because you don't want to have to handle it. You really don't. It's too stupid and crazy and incredibly, incredibly unfair. But you do handle it. Because the thing you learn is that you can.

Who has not seen a frail, clinging-vine type of woman, who upon the death of her husband strainghtens up and becomes an oak, around which the growing children twine their lives, and are forever greatful for such a mother? But this strength would never have come out and developed had it not been for the tears that watered the vine and made it into an oak.

When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice... it is conformity.

Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength. —A. J. Cronin

A faithful friend is a strong defense and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.

Dünyayla ba?a ç?kabilen ama kalbiyle ba? edemeyen bir kad?nd?.

Tanr? bizi sevmese bile cesur bir anne bize yetebilirdi...

Kad?nda zaman geçmez. Sak?n günün birinde iyile?mek için zamana güvenme.

Bir kere teslim olursam ihtiyarlay?p ölürüm. Biri bana sar?l?rsa ayakta duramam. Çünkü… Çünkü kalbim ablukada kal?r o vakit. Dü?mana teslim olmak daha kolay. Onurun k?r?l?r en fazla, ama beni seven birine teslim olursam… Esir dü?erim.

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.