Quotes About Strength

In that moment I found a power beyond any I'd had before, a will and a determination I would never have need if not for Lucinda, a fortitude I hadn't been able to find for a lesser cause.

Instead of making me docile, Lucinda's curse made a rebel of me. Or perhaps I was that way naturally.

But the lost one is with you. Her tenderness strengthens you, Her gaiety uplifts you, Her honor purifies you. More than memory, The lost one is found.

Instead of making me docile, Lucinda's curse made a rebel of me

Gail Carson Levine

i wasnt frightened of it. The gray death wasn't a monster or a spider i could see and shiver over. It was invisible. If I caught it would be somewhere within me and while the outside world was full of danger I knew my interior I was certain I could oust an intruder there.

Drualt cleared his throat and began the traditional stanzas from Drualt. They hadn't been said at weddings in his day, naturally, but they'd been said in Bamarre for centuries now. "Drualt took Freya's warm hand, Her strong hand, Her sword hand, And pressed it to his lips, Pressed it . . ." Drualt's voice wavered. He pulled a handkerchief from the pouch at his waist and blew his nose. Then he began again.

Sometimes troubles make us stronger. We put things in perspective and find priorities.

She was her steady self again, the one about whom Nonie had said, I admire that woman. Despite all her adversities, Beryl Jones manages to stay in control her days.

If something terrible happens to me, it's not my job to spare you from my pain.

The essential in Frida is a sick woman, intelligent, with a great passion for life beyond her sickness.

To overcome the emotional hardships of being ridiculed for being different, she turned difference into specialness and transformed her disability into a defining quality of her identity.

Conservatism, when presented in full strength at the ballot, wins at the ballot.

Defense wins at every level.

While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

I went to see Billy Connolly do two hours with no break at the Apollo, with Parkinson's disease, during the winter, and it was one of the most important gigs I have seen in my life.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

I played football; I was a running back, and I took a hit, and I had a hairline fracture in my leg which no one spotted, and I was playing basketball all winter and it got worse. And then I was long jumping, about 20 feet, and I landed one time and there was this big crack, and all the bones were jutting out of my leg.

The protagonist in 'Winter's Bone' was a really good role for a female. She was strong; she didn't have to conform to something or be a sidekick to any man. That's part of what you're responding to; it's a woman-centric situation. Her value in the film was not reliant on any man.

My fans have been the power behind me and beside me, they have been holding me awake, and so they are my winter storm.

Swedish winters are not for the faint of heart.

Wipe the tears away, stand up, be a man, run your business, find a way.

When you wipe out, all you can do is let the wave take you and stay calm until you can come up for air.

The Tunisian people will not bow. We will stay united against terrorism until we wipe out this phenomenon.