Quotes About Strength

He that has the Longer Sword, shall never want, either Lawyers, or Divines to Defend his Claim.

One person could run a small state, if they were strong and angry enough. But the USA was too big for that.

The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

There is something about a literary work- its vision, its transparence, its metaphoric quality- that makes it very strong magic.

Was soll denn an dieser Behinderung Besonderes sein? Raúl Krauthausen ist einfach ein sehr beeindruckender Mensch mit starken Gaben. Er hat viel zu sagen und sich über seinen Rollstuhl schon lange erhoben.

Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure...

Why do you allow yourselves to be shut up?' 'Because it cannot be helped as they are stronger than women.' 'A lion is stronger than a man, but it does not enable him to dominate the human race. You have neglected the duty you owe to yourselves and you have lost your natural rights by shutting your eyes to your own interests.

The era is over when men would trample on us and still have us licking their boots.

If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a "weakness" or an "absurdity": it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)

Resist fear," Jesus said. "Fear is always in the future. Cut through it. Resist it.

Come, young rain of tears; come gentle hands of sorrow. It's not as terrible as you think.

Eneren, lyngens mor, er mitt tre. Den trenger ingen sommer, bare regn og sne. Fillet krone den løfter, ingen har hørt dens sus. Den har en lang, seig rot som kan gro av grus. Den bærer vind over skuldrene, skyene i sitt hår. Den kan stå i stormen. Knelende. Men den står. Kanskje den har en drøm i sindet: Det hvite ranunkel-bed der verden slutter og breene kommer ned. Av alle trær på jorden nærmest den store sne, breenes blinde sol. Å, var jeg som det.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON, "SELF-RELIANCE

Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly," wrote Henry Miller. "Everything…we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is golden for him who has the vision to realize it as such." Once

Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

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

Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs — not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can "be", that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)

Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man

If, when he first begins tentatively to say "No," his parents beat him down rather than love and encourage him, he thereafter will say "No" not as a form of true independent strength but as a mere rebellion.

It takes a strong self—that is, a strong sense of personal identity—to relate fully to nature without being swallowed up.

So we shed no tears for the demise of the gyroscope man. One might place on his tombstone the epitaph, "Like the dinosaur, he had power without the ability to change, strength without the capacity to learn.

Our aim is to discover ways in which we can stand against the insecurity of our time, to find a center of strength within ourselves, and as far as we can, to point the way toward achieving values and goals which can be depended upon in a day when very little is secure.