Quotes About Strength

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

God's Word is the ultimate beauty treatment for every woman.

The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him

the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

'Ole!' to you, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up.

I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There's nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

You're wishin' too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.

There's a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that's how the light of God gets in.

Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.

Better to struggle through life with a broken wing than have no wings at all.

The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.

She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.

whatever happens I'll not be afraid again; for, when you've once pushed through the place of torment to the peace beyond, you know that you can do it again. You know there's a strength somewhere that you can call upon. You've confidence.

And then I say to myself that we should believe in that which we felt when we were strong and happy rather than in that which we feel when we are sick and sad. Do you not think, Judith, that one is more truly oneself in times of joy than in times of sorrow?

She lived too close to despair to have any strength left for self-knowledge. She might have been able to acknowledge herself unloved but to know herself unloving was beyond her strength.

I mean, you may cause others a spot of bother by your weaknesses, perhaps, but coping with you may possibly increase their strength and sympathy. But if you sin deliberately, even if it seems only against yourself--well--you won't be the only one to suffer. You may even be the one who suffers least.

Hard labor and the passing of the years had contorted and hardened his limbs to queer, crooked shapes, but he gave no impression of deformity, as Nat did. So of the earth was he that he looked more like a tree than a man, one of those tough old pine trees that nothing in the way of weather except a thunderbolt will ever get the better of.

Folks don't fall from laughter to fear in that way when they're nervously strong, and nerves take their toll of the body in the end.

Such a blow breaks a weak woman, twists a strong one.

Pride takes a lot of breaking.

Had her mother endured this same torture for her, and had she rewarded her with so little love? But it was too late to love Sophie now. She was dead. Did all women go through this agony whenever a child was born? Then women were greater than she had thought. Hine-Moa had had six children and was still beautiful and serene. And Charlotte had many children. She must not scream. She was sure that neither Charlotte nor Hine-Moa had ever screamed.

That was the trouble with Mrs. Hepplewhite's kindness. Once let loose it was like a roaring cataract and one had to be very strong to stand against the current and live.

You'd have to be so careful, more careful than we can even imagine, to keep that one spark alive. Because that's what kept you alive, in the cold and the dark.