Quotes About Strength

When I die, they might as well bury me at the finish line at Churchill Downs so they can run over me one more time.

Here's the dilemma, Itself the solution. I have always been at the same time woman enough to be moved to tears and man enough to drive my car in any direction.

It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.

Each and all of us must summon to mind the words of Him whom we honor this Easter time: 'When a strong man, armed, keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace'.

Through the cold time she holds me with evergreen devotion she bears up my whiteness.

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

For the faithful, our finest hours are sometimes during or just following our darkest hours.

If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.

When all your energy gone! When you have nothing left! That's when it's show time!

I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!

You shouldn't give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time with and take care of yourself.

Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.

Time heals everything. Sometimes you have to go through that pain and heartbreak so that you can get to the other side and come out on top.

Gymnastics has made me strong. I feel like it broke me down to my lowest point, but at the same time, it has given me the greatest strength anyone could ask for.

Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.

Ebie, dear child. And he took me in his strong arms. You aren't angry with me? I couldn't believe it. Angry? Of course not. Courage is shown in different ways, Ebie. If others don't always recognize it, that's their fault, not ours.

There was something regal about her. She carried herself like she was wearing pink moire. And that powerless complexion glowed. Watching her, it came to me that she must have some Yankee strength that didn't need frippery.

I understood now that you could be as soft as the silken draperies, shine like the copper candle holders, and have something tick quietly inside you and never miss a beat, even if you lived in a rude sod hut in the wilderness.