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Quotes About Strength

Getting older is unavoidable, but falling apart is not.
~ John J. Ratey
Just as anxiety can feed on itself, so can courage.
~ John J. Ratey
In theory, say you did have thousands of people—no, thousands of systems—enraged at a hypothetical Galactic Empire in a faraway galaxy. But they're all upset over local matters, over particular grievances, and they never get together on anything. So they get no strength in numbers, no strategic advantages from cooperation. They're easy to divide and conquer. And worst of all, no common spirit ever develops.
~ John Jackson Miller
A starship is a weapon, but it's the crew that makes it deadly.
~ John Jackson Miller
I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.
~ John Jeremiah Sullivan
In a place filled with fears, they were looking for the man who had none.
~ John Katzenbach
En un lugar lleno de temores, buscamos al hombre que no tiene ninguno.
~ John Katzenbach
Lo que no comprendieron al comienzo es que tenían un nexo común que iba más allá de su sorprendente pelo rojizo. Cada una de ellas, a su manera, era vulnerable.
~ John Katzenbach
Admiro al salmón porque comprendo lo que significa ser empujado por fuerzas que los demás no pueden ver, sentir ni oír, y percibir la obligación de un deber más importante que uno mismo.
~ John Katzenbach
La traición puede volverse mucho más fuerte que el amor»
~ John Katzenbach
That truth is far stronger than death.
~ John Katzenbach
But strength alone though of the Muses bornIs like a fallen angel: trees uptorn,Darkness, and worms, and shrouds, and sepulchersDelight it; for it feeds upon the burrsAnd thorns of life; forgetting the great endOf poesy, that it should be a friendTo soothe the cares, and lift the thoughts of man.
~ John Keats
I begin to get a little acquainted with my own strength and weakness.—Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own Works.
~ John Keats
If I must have an ill, may it be real, That I may meet it eye to eye and fight, And wheresoever it may strength reveal Get after it with all my main and might. The woe that but impends and wears the mind With worry deep and most vexatious care, Is harder fighting than the realler kind, For when you come to strike—it isn't there!
~ JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes each as on he goes, And neatly crumbles it, And turns his share of pebbly woes To stores of inner grit.
~ JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.
~ John Knowles
A man with God is always in the majority.
~ John Knox
The man who stands with God is always in the majority.
~ John Knox
Here lies one who feared God so much that he never feared the face of any man.
~ John Knox
Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.
~ John Krasinski
How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.
~ John Kremer
The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.
~ John L. Lewis
Having too expensive a currency can cause severe economic problems, which has been the case in many sectors of the Australian economy: the Australian dollar, its strength boosted by COMMODITY wealth, was so highly valued that it devastated the country's retail sector – it was so easy to buy stuff from abroad using super-charged Australian dollars that local shops found it near-impossible to compete.
~ John Lanchester
He looked back at Troy – a bold, challenging eye-to-eye stare that Troy had often wished he possessed himself. If he could look like that he'd be the hard man of the Yard in no time.
~ John Lawton