Quotes About Strength

She would not fail this night. Nothing would stop her. Cassandra worked around to the far

Having survived the brutalities and humiliations of cancer, vanity seemed a foolish frivolity. She no longer had the patience for it.

An old Churchill slogan popped into Gray's head. If you're going through hell, keep going.

The strong were always eating the weak.

He counted his steps. That was how you got through tough things. You counted. Once you said, "one," then you knew "two" was coming, and "three" right after that.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

Endurance is the crowning quality…

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.

Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu duIs jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one's life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river water and enter the bodies of swimmers. She was excited, filled with strength. The polished sentences had arrived, it seemed, like so many other things, at just the right time. How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others?

We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own.

Compassion is not weakness. Enduring is not living. And belligerence is not strength.

It's all right," she said, a sad smile forming on her lips. "I have everything I need.

These troubles and distresses that you go through in these waters are no sign that God has forsaken you. They are sent to call to your mind that which you have received of His goodness, that you may trust Him in your distress.

Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.

Si tenemos un alma lo bastante fuerte, podemos arrancarnos el velo y contemplar cara a cara la desnuda y terrible belleza; dejar que el dios nos consuma, nos devore, nos quiebre los huesos. Y luego nos escupa renacidos.

meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we're not

When we are strongest—who draws back? Most merry—who falls down laughing? When we are very bad,—what can they do to us? —ARTHUR RIMBAUD

Hobie had an iron constitution. Whenever he came down with something himself, he drank a Fernet-Branca and kept going.

Yet (moment by painful moment, breath by painful breath) one got through things.

true. Put your foot down and demand it!

the habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.