Quotes About Strength

The stars in their infinite peace seemed to pour their healing light into me. I thought of captives in prison, the sick and the suffering from the beginning of time who had looked to these stars for strength. What was my little sorrow to the centuries of pain which those stars had watched? So near they seemed, so compassionate. My bitter hurt seemed to grow small and drop away. If I must go on alone, I should still have silence and the high stars to walk with me.

Even in the desolate wilderness, stars can still shine.

Oh, I am arm'd with more than complete steel, The justice of my quarrel.

Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality

Nothing can defeat you, if you make up your mind to fight and nothing can save you, if you have accepted defeat.

The development of my own affair with mathematics had taught me an important lesson: one should be brutally honest with oneself about weaknesses, acknowledge them with courage and chart further course accordingly. For myself I had done this, but had Uncle Petros?

one should be brutally honest with oneself about weaknesses, acknowledge them with courage and chart further course accordingly.

Ask yourself, does this person make me feel good about myself? Do I feel safe, strong and free with this person? Those are the questions you need to ask....You have to be strong to truly be open.

My life might not turn out to be easy I thought. I just hoped I'd turn out to be strong.

Mama paused. "Sometimes, your soul looks back and wonders how you got over.

If you want a good polar traveller get a man without too much muscle, with good physical tone, and let his mind be on wires—of steel. And if you can't get both, sacrifice physique and bank on will.

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.

An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Be bold! That's one way Of getting through life. So I turn upon her And point out that, Faced with the wickedness Of things, she does not shiver.

Heart, my heart, so battered with misfortune far beyond your strength, up, and face the men who hate us. Bare your chest to the assault of the enemy, and fight them off. Stand fast among the beamlike spears. Give no ground; and if you beat them, do not brag in open show, nor, if they beat you, run home and lie down on your bed and cry. Keep some measure in the joy you take in luck, and the degree you give way to sorrow. All our life is up-and-down like this.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.

Give me a lever and I will move the earth

Give me somewhere to stand, and I will move the earth.

Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.

Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.

The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.

It's the rough side of the mountain that's the easiest to climb; the smooth side doesn't have anything for you to hang on to.