Quotes About Strength

Kinder hearts are stronger, her mother had once

Now breathe or I'll do it for you.

Draven gave her a long look. "I see Lord Jasper chose well." "I don't understand." "It's obvious he cares for you, and I see why." Her cheeks flushed warmly. "You're braver than you look. What is that line from Shakespeare? And though she be but little, she is fierce.

Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.

Her eyes remind me of the Pacific: Raging. Fearless. Restless.

He was a rock that she would break herself on.

The first step toward power is to accept reality

Do the hard thing

He probably ate girls like her for breakfast. They all did. They all had. She had no intention of being eaten for breakfast, ever again. Her naughty brain took that thought, twirled it around and had a party with it.

What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness.

Suffering builds character." He said that if you are always lolling around and being pampered and life is too easy, then you turn into a spineless wimp, but if you encounter suffering, you learn to face challenges and you get stronger. It sounds like something a grandparent might say, doesn't it?

Gotta realize that all you are is all you got.

Remember the acorn. Even when you don't see it growing, it's pushing past the dirt. Reaching for the sun. Growing stronger.

They're all good ones, Mr. Mac. Some of them just need more support than others.

The Welsh were a god-cursed, stiff-necked, and utterly vexatious people, John said bitterly, but they did have an inexplicable ability to rise phoenixlike from the ashes of defeat, to soar upwards on wings too scorched for flight.

Oh, John is clever enough. But what do brains avail a man if he does lack for backbone?

If that's how you'd rather remember it. But I did not mean that as a reproach. I do not, in truth, think less of you for having the common sense to abandon a ship once waves began to break over the bow. Nor, after sixteen years shut away from the sun, am I likely to find tears to spare for Henry Plantagenet.

Statecraft and kingship were not for the faint of heart

The Welsh do make the worst enemies. They do not play by your rules, they win when they're not supposed to, and they do not know when they're beaten.

back all he'd been

Louis shook his head. Those who dismiss women as the weaker sex, he said mildly, have never met the Countess of Leicester.

In my life, I've been both the besieged and the besieged, and I know damned well which I prefer!

But such was her faith in Simon that it colored her faith in God; unable to conceive of defeat, she never doubted that the Lord, too, willed Simon to win, and falling asleep in Simon's arms, she did not dread the morrow, so secure was she in the strength of her yesterdays.

And if Harry spun webs to make a spider proud, Eleanor could entangle archangels in her snares.