Quotes About Strength

The scars of war are not always visible.

It's all in your head, Genevieve said. I know, said Alyss, and despite the traumas of the past , the uncertainty of the future, she wouldn't have given up this moment for anything. Isn't it wonderful?

One was the repurposing of trauma or upset as a badge of honor, the turning of the statement "I can't believe what I'm going through" from a complaint to a boast, from "I can't believe what I'm being put through" to "I can't believe what I'm managing to get through.

For all our claims and gestures of dominion over this earth, all our gravity-defying explorations beyond it, all our artistic triumphs, all our athletic feats, we are a breakable species

Even in the later innings of our lives, we have unplumbed abilities, untaxed muscles, flexibility, growth.

Friend, you are a divine mingle-mangle of guts and stardust. So hang in there! If doors opened for me, they can open for anyone.

Someone should keep reminding Mr. Average Man that he was born free, divine, strong; uncrushable by fate, society, or hell itself; and that he is a child of God, equal heir to all the bounties of God; and that goodness is riches, kindness is power, and freedom is glory. Above all, every man is born with an inner capacity to take him as far as his imagination can dream or envision-providing he is free to dream and envision.

Don't be afraid of it. Learn it. Work hard. Do it seriously and try to get what you can out of it. Keep an open mind, and if in the end you decide to throw it away, you'll be doing it from strength.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help him up.

A person of influence demonstrates character, strength, humility, integrity and vision that motivate and inspire others. Influence is when you make others successful!

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib

When I am Weaker Thn You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.

We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.

You do not beg the sun for mercy. -Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary

Enemies strengthen you. Allies weaken.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

There's steel in this man that no one has taken the temper out of...

To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers.

I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.

You must teach me someday how you do that," he said, "the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters. It must be a Bene Gesserit thing." "It's a female thing," she said.

We will not run, Paul said. We'll move with dignity. We'll do what must be done.

My brother comes now, Alia said. Even an Emperor may tremble before Muad'Dib, for he has the strength of righteousness and heaven smiles upon him.