Quotes About Strength

What makes a person a success is how they handle the lows in life and how they make their comeback.

I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy. I would use my strength instead to nurture my belief that my life would unfurl uniquely.

We don't know our hearts until life puts us to the test, and WWII fascinates because it was the last time everyone was simultaneously pushed to their limit.

I always thought of him [Jack Kennedy] as a prince, with a charmed life. He was a guy who was sick and in horrendous pain all the time - who would say, "I wish I had a few good days."

I have a strong constitution which has served me quite well, though if I hadn't had such a strong one I might have led a more healthy life perhaps.

I have to think it's possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important moments.

Life, on confidence, is an extraordinary and powerful thing

Nobody else will ever be able to save me if I'm not fighting as hard as I can to save myself.

I trained myself. Long ago, 'Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Cities don't make people poor; they attract poor people. The flow of less advantaged people into cities from Rio to Rotterdam demonstrates urban strength, not weakness.

That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.

One word from thee, my Lord, one smile, one look, and I could face the cold, rough world again; And with that treasure in my heart could brook the wrath of devils and the scorn of men.

I need to live like that crooked tree--... that knelt down in the hardest winds but could not be blasted away.

Look closely and you will see Almost everyone carrying bags Of cement on their shoulders That's why it takes courage To get out of bed in the morning And climb into the day

I did not know the work of mourning Is like carrying a bag of cement Up a mountain at night

Don't be afraid of the dark." She tousled his hair tolerantly. "I've never known a man who wasn't scared of more things than I was.

A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller.

Edward Jones

We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face of any challenge.

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.

Domination today is not a product of armies or navies or wealth or policies. It is a domination based on the one hand upon accomplished unity, and on the other hand upon the fact that opposition is generally characterized by a high degree of disunity.

It shames man not to feel man's human fear, It shames man only if the fear subdue