Quotes About Strength

She was a nightmare of beauty and menace living right there above them, a being part raptor, part human, part divine. She knew without question that she could sweep down on them and inflict upon all of them a terrible vengeance if she wished. She had the capacity for violence within her, residing beside her heart.

David Anthony Durham

Before fighting," she said, "we learn pain. Only once we learn how to control pain, can we overcome our fear of it. Once we overcome fear, we can learn to fight freely without the crippling weight of apprehension. That is when we will move on to fighting.

But remember this: even if I do reach the point where I am begging for death, the fact remains that I still live.

David Archer

Fate whispers to the wolf; "you cannot withstand the storm" and the wolf whispers back, "I am the storm.

Bread feeds when broken open. Soil grows when broken open. You are not broken. You are the world's nourishment continually being broken open by design.

The history of Temples teaches us that the people of God have been strong, or weak, in proportion to the faithfulness with which they have attended to their sanctuaries.

Don't be discouraged at seemingly overwhelming odds in your desire to live and to help others live God's commandments. At times it may seem like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember, David did win.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

I will never forget that the passing down of memories is the strongest link in the gossamer bridge that binds up as people.

The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times.

The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.

IF U WANT TO KICK THE TIGER ASS BECAREFULL OF HIS TEETH FIRST.

I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn't register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you're too daft to know you're mortal?

Happiness is the knowledge that one is more powerful than all the objects in the world and all the thoughts in one's own mind.

You can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take.

His mind resembled the vast ampitheatre, the Colisum at Rome. In the centre stood his judgement, which like a mighty gladiator, combated those apprehensions that, like the wild beasts of the Arena, were all around in cells, ready to be let out upon him. After a conflict, he drives them back into their dens; but not killing them, they were still assailing him.

A great many grown-up and intelligent people believe, or pretend to believe, that by behaving in a friendly and accommodating way to our attackers, we will show them that they have nothing to fear from us and so defuse their wrath. The idea that such behavior would be taken by a ruthless and implacable enemy only as a sign of weakness is as foreign to them as the idea of honor itself.