Quotes About Strength

Dolores liked that story. Men were wolves and practical women took the knife to them, and those wolves, those sharp-toothed men, they didn't come back after that.

Adelia, you must not quail. You are confounding inhumanity.

Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention.

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

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. Rather, it's the mastery of fear

is a way of being that gives you the resources to deal with the ups and downs of life

The harder we press on a violin string, the less we can feel it. The louder we play, the less we hear.… If I "try" to play, I fail; if I race, I trip. The only road to strength is vulnerability. —STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.

Los mejores momentos de la vida son aquellos en los cuales no sabemos qué hacer, porque solamente entonces, mi niño, descubrimos nuestra fuerza interior, nuestra verdadera vocación.

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.

I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.

My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.

Ring the bells that still can ring; forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in.

Så kom en til meg. En med vakkert hjerte og et vakkert smil. Hun tok med i hånden og ledet meg ut porten. Hun sa: Du kan jo nesten ikke gå, gutten min – hva har de gjort med deg der inne? Og sammen gikk vi ut i verden, og skrittene mine skalv. Men jeg lærte å snakke – litt etter litt kom ordene tilbake i guttens munn. Og jeg fylte dem med sang. Og meget smerte lå skjult bak denne sangen.

Det er som om selve ankeret mitt ligger begravet i kulpene der ute – og det holder meg fast. Det er som om selve styrken, skaperkraften, hjertet mitt og brillene jeg ser ut på verden med har sitt utspring i elvas dyp.

Men jeg ville ikke spise og bli stor og sterk. Jeg ville være liten og forsvinne – gå opp i ingenting.

Tsuyokini,honki Mutekini,suteki Genki,yuuki! --Kusakabe Maron

I can't even dial one phone number right away. But you strained your own body to go and see them. I was surprised. The frightened little me had always wondered how to swim through the vast ocean, but you didn't even want a ship. You wanted wings. I thought you were amazing.

There is no animal more invincible than a woman, nor fire either, nor any wildcat so ruthless.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Nature, we see, has variously moulded the human frame: some men are strongly built, and firmly compacted; others erect and graceful, unfit for toil and drudgery, but capable of sustaining honourably the offices of war and peace. This, however, holds not universally; for a servile mind is often lodged in a graceful person; and we have often found bodies formed for servitude, animated by the souls of freemen.

Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.