Quotes About Strength

Terror is your enemy.

Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.

You saved yourself, gorgeous, Crisp said. You just needed a little help laughing about it.

was so proud that night, so self-possessed, standing tall, fully inhabited. I owned myself, felt fully mine to give.

Avoiding pain will get you nowhere. Avoiding pain multiplies pain exponentially.

Let even your deficits be your offering.

Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

The most beautiful people I've known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within.

Let us beware: nothing is so delicate and so sacred as the human soul; nothing is so quickly bruised. Let each one of our words and deeds contain a principle of life that, penetrating other spirits, will communicate light and strength and will reveal God to them.

I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

But of course Anton turned out to be brave and strong, and so he died while he was still unlikable.

Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl.

You should see the other guy..." Teddy says, in this laconic tone that matches her black kimono. She takes a drag on a joint, barely glancing up from the crossword, which she always does in pen.

The important thing is you've just proven that any organization should be viewed as a chain. I can take it from here. Since the strength of the chain is determined by the weakest link, then the first step to improve an organization must be to identify the weakest link." "Or links," I correct. "Remember, an organization may be comprised of several independent chains.

My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.

I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.