Quotes About Strength

I've heard that the pen is mightier than the sword," Gilan said. "But I never knew the inkwell could be mightier than the dagger.

His method of making his way through the crowd was a simple one. He deviated neither to left nor right, but forged straight ahead, using his broad shoulders to clear a path. A pace behind him, his beautiful wife, Lady Sandra, followed in the space he cleared.

John Flanagan

If you believe that," he said grimly, "then you have never seen Skandians fight, my friend.

Hoe bang je ook bent - en je zult bang zijn - en hoe angstaanjagend ze er met hun doodshoofden en hun zwart-omrande ogen ook uitzien, blijf staan. Val aan. Ga altijd naar voren. Schreeuw tegen ze, laat je woede spreken, maar val vooral aan. Dat verwachten ze nooit. Ze verwachten dat je van angst begint te gillen en op de vlucht slaat. Doe dat niet. Ga vooruit. Altijd vooruit. - Lydia

But you could try to make it sound a little less like an elephant trumpeting in agony

Start with the bow hand close to your body, not extended. Then push with your bow hand and pull with the other. That way you're using the muscles of both arms, not just the string arm.

Die jonge Vrouwe Alyss van jullie, die zit daar als een eiland van rust en verstand in een stormzee vol botsende golven. Zij heeft geduld, heel veel geduld. Alhoewel ik een paar keer het idee kreeg dat zij op het punt stond mijn onderhandelaar met een stapel van zijn paperassen om de oren te slaan. - Selethen

Ik ben op zoek naar een stel sterke kerels die van een potje vechten houden. Ik wil namelijk een kasteel plunderen, en ik heb begrepen dat jullie daar best goed in zijn. - Will, tegen de Skandiërs

How can you stay so calm?" It helps if you're terrified.

Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.

The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.

Awake, awake, you that sleep. Open your eyes, stand on your feet, and behold and see what a sea of blood and wrath is here!" See and believe; believe and consider; consider and fear; fear and fly; and make haste in your work. Your work is great and mighty; diversions are many; adversaries are strong; your strength is small; your time is short; your account is great. Death and judgment are at the door. Therefore, up and be doing, now or never.

If there be the truth of grace, there will be an endeavor after the strength of grace.

Parsons pulled the straw near to him, and then said to the spectators, "This is God's armor, and now I am a Christian soldier prepared for battle: I look for no mercy but through the merits of Christ;

Those who were taken experienced the most cruel tortures the infernal imaginations could invent; and, by their constancy evinced that a real christian can surmount every difficulty, and despise ever danger to acquire a crown of martyrdom.

We do not need to be mighty when we are faced with weakness." - Ezekyle Abaddon

But the Missouri—my brother—is the eternal Fighting Man!

Women are women, and hurray for that.

Will shall be the sterner, heart the bolder, spirit the greater as our strength lessens.

Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

Everyone struggles to guard their heart from breaking, when they should desire to have a heart that breaks...

words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...

allowing yourself to be vulnerable makes you weak but also opens you to the nuances of beauty...