Quotes About Strength

Sometimes the weak will last for years, while the strong will suddenly collapse and die.

That man is strongest who stands alone!

Little one, don't be afraid of this big river. Be safe in these warm arms for ever. Grow tall, my child, be wise and strong. But do not take from any man his song. Little one, don't be afraid of this dark night. Walk boldly as you see the truth and light. Love well, my child, laugh all day long, But do not take from any man his song. 16

It has bloomed again, This flower that I thought dead. In one moment of despair And pain, I'd trampled it in the ground Upon this barren plain. Little did I know That it would rise again, This flower that I thought dead. My soul would need A surer weapon than despair To crush a thing so bright, so fair.

Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. If your way be long, let your heart be strong, So keep right on round the bend.'   By

Live long, my friend, be wise and strong, But do not take from any man his song.

Eighteen, and in control of my own destiny. For that man is strongest who stands alone.

The kindest people are often those who have come through testing personal tragedies.

kindest people are often those who have come through testing personal tragedies. A

The slender maindenhair fern grows firm on a rock While all around her the water swirls and chatters And then disappears in a rush Down to the bottom of the hill When I'm surrounded by troubled water, Lord, Let me find within a rock to cling to, And give me the quiet patience of the maidenhair Who has learned to live with the rock

It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.

Stop, people! Don't make me hurt you! What chance have you against one who can smash robots?

They were gone and I missed them but even so I was very happy. For the rest of my life no matter where on this planet earth I went and no matter how scared or confused I got, I could wait until dark and look up into the night sky and see my three friends again and my heart would swell with love of them and make me strong and clearheaded.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

Tocqueville presciently claimed that the strength of the American government was to a large extent the result of its democratic incapacity to run the nation and the economy as coherently and effectively as a monarchical or autocratic government might run it.

I cud feal some thing growing in me it wer like a grean sea surging in me it wer saying, LOSE IT. Saying, LET GO. Saying, THE ONLYES POWER IS NO POWER The ruins of Canterbury Castle

A person's strength is to know their weaknesses.

To separate yourself from your weakness and look at it objectively is a very powerful thing.

No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim.

Focus on the path in front of you. Don't let any of them know they can upset you. If you let them know they can bother you, you give them power.

Now I know why they call sick people by the word 'patient'. The patient has to have patience. Wait and wait and wait and not lose hope" -Ruthie

We come from people who found hope wherever they went.

But wherever I go, I know I will feel most at home with the wounded of the world, who hold their heads up high no matter how broken they may seem.

Some of us have scars you can see and some of us have scars that we hide deep inside, hoping no one will ever ask about them.