Quotes About Strength

We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear, the moving out against the resistance engendered by fear into the unknown and into the future.

we are incapable of loving another unless we love ourselves, just as we are incapable of teaching our children self-discipline unless we ourselves are self-disciplined. It is actually impossible to forsake our own spiritual development in favor of someone else's. We cannot forsake self-discipline and at the same time be disciplined in our care for another. We cannot be a source of strength unless we nurture our own strength.

M?sura-probabil cea mai bun?- a m?re?iei unei persoane este capacitatea de a suferi''.

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

It is because they possess this courage, on the other hand, that many psychoanalytic patients, even at the outset of therapy and contrary to their stereotypical image, are people who are basically much stronger and healthier than average.

wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.

One measure—and perhaps the best measure—of a person's greatness is the capacity for suffering.

The Chatcaava consumed themselves and others with their savagery, and the Eldritch dwindled into elegant irrelevance... and ignored by them both, save when it suited them, the Pelted labored on, creating these minor miracles out of spare parts and sheer ingenuity. What had the Emperor said once? The creed of your Alliance: we are born weak, therefore let us make strength from bits of metal and philosophy.

Needing someone doesn't make you weak, it makes you feel. And feeling is how you know you're alive. -Jack Reacher

We're all broken in one way or another, but it's through the cracks in our souls that the light comes through. And the light, Jenny, that's our art. Now, paint. Paint as if your life depends on it.

It takes a lot of courage to be happy.

Na verdade, Capitu ia crescendo às carreiras, as formas arredondavam-se e avigoravam-se com grande intensidade; moralmente, a mesma coisa. Era mulher por dentro e por fora, mulher à direita e à esquerda, mulher por todos os lados, e desde os pés até à cabeça.

O mundo regurgita de almas melindrosas, que, como a sensitiva dos campos, se contraem e murcham ao menor contacto. Sair salvo e rijo dos combates da vida é caso de rara superioridade.

Era refratário às lágrimas; por isso mesmo padecia mais.

mulher feita, refeita e perfeita.

A coragem de muita gente não tem outra explicação. Não é sempre por valentia que os homens são valentes, diz La Rochefoucauld.

BaÅŸkas?n?n güçlenmesinin nedeni olan kiÅŸi kendi y?k?m?na yol açar çünkü o güç ya becerinin ya zor kullanman?n sonucudur ve güçlü hale gelmiÅŸ kiÅŸi için bu iki nitelik de kuÅŸkuludur

It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for fighting must learn how to govern by the arts of peace.

The dictatorship did not elate me, nor did exile depress me.

Sometimes we have to be left on our own to discover the uniqueness and strength that is ours.

Once you understand a wound it loses its power to destroy you.

I love, therefore I am vulnerable.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.