Quotes About Strength

La valentía no es el roble majestuoso que ve ir y venir las tormentas; es el frágil retoño de una flor que se abre en la nieve.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

Gather those broad leaves, and all the rest, growing under the brushwood; unbrace his armour. Loose the helmet first

Come one, come all! this rock shall flyFrom its firm base as soon as I.

And dar'st thou, then,To beard the lion in his den,The Douglas in his hall?

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

Time will rust the sharpest sword,Time will consume the strongest cord;That which molders hemp and steel,Mortal arm and nerve must feel.

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon

Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

She's her mother's daughter - full of courage, determination, and strength she doesn't even know she has.

Wanda E. Brunstetter

treatment had begun, things were more advanced than anyone had suspected. It shook Sara to the core how quickly it all happened. Her mother never complained of any pain she might have had. When she started feeling under the weather, she made an appointment with the doctor, figuring it was only a virus.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Finally I was able to see that if I had a contribution I wanted to make, I must do it, despite what others said. That I was OK the way I was. That it was all right to be strong.

When I was a child I said I don't want to be a woman. Why?! Because it's too painful to be a woman!" "Let us try and change what it means to be a woman.

The wonderful thing about this city is when you get tired you can always lean against it.

It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.

Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.

He'd always liked women who'd talk back to him just a little bit. "Girls with balls" were good. Women with an actual mind of their own who could prove him wrong in something were, of course, castrating bitches who should be drowned in bottomless wells.

Jonathan suffered from bigorexia, the body dysmorphia that occurs when a young man like Jonathan continues working on his physical strength, often temporarily magnifying it with steroids, in the hope that it will fill the black hole of his psychic wound.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. —Albert Einstein

Your greatest strength is knowing what you cannot do.