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Quotes About Strength

Violence against women is fundamentally about power.
~ Antonio Guterres
I think the fundamentals of America are strong.
~ Judy Sheindlin
Will Arnett is one of the funniest guys I know. He has seen it all and done it all and come out the other end pretty savvy and pretty strong.
~ Jason Bateman
Very" is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens what it is intended to strengthen. For example, would you rather hear the mincing shallowness of "I love you very much" or the heart-slamming intensity of "I love you"?
~ Florence King
There is no such thing as a fallen woman; when she steps out of her place, she always steps up.
~ Florence King
A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.
~ Florence Nightingale
Women dream until they have no longer the strength to dream; those dreams against which they so struggle, so honestly, vigorously, and conscientiously, and so in vain, yet which are their life, without which they could not have lived; those dreams go at last. All their plans and visions seem vanished, and they know not where; gone and they cannot recall them. And they are left without the food either of reality or of hope.
~ Florence Nightingale
fear must be erased from the consciousness.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Eliah —Decímelo todo, por favor, Matilde. Quiero ayudarte. Matilde: "¿Sí? ¿Me ayudarías? ¿O saldrías espantado?" —No sabés cuánto me ayudás abrazándome de este modo. Me hacés sentir fuerte cuando me abrazás. Me hacés sentir que soy capaz de conquistar el mundo. Eliah —Mi amor, nadie me había dicho algo tan hermoso, jamás. Si lo que necesitás es mi fuerza, te la doy toda.
~ Florencia Bonelli
My dear, it couldn't have lasted for ever … But you're a good man. And very clever… . You will get through….
~ Ford Madox Ford
She buckled about her her armour of charm
~ Ford Madox Ford
Steel is a normal, hard, polished substance. But if you put it in a hot fire it will become red, soft, and not to be handled. If you put it in a fire still more hot it will drip away. It was like that with Leonora. She was made for normal circumstances.
~ Ford Madox Ford
Everything growing wild is a hundred times stronger than tame things.
~ Forrest Carter
He loves deep... hates hard, ever'thing's that killed what he loves. All great warriors are sich men.
~ Forrest Carter
Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is.
~ Forrest Carter
In my own country I am in a far off land I am strong but I have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling.
~ Francois Villon
I don't like it, papa, she said. But then I dare say soldiers - even brave ones - don't really like going into battle.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
All women are princesses , it is our right.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Yes, answered Sara, nodding. Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic—being strong is the Magic. The Magic is in me—the Magic is in me.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely ever do.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
But the calm had brought a sort of courage and hope with it. Instead of giving way to thoughts of the worst, he actually found he was trying to believe in better things.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett