Quotes About Strength

Only the young, he thought, could withstand the rigors of love.

People live with things," Bernie said. "They do. I am always amazed at what people live with.

You're in the middle of a storm at the moment.

They had somehow taken a group of women from the town through the (concentration) camps to show them what had been right there, and Tommy's brother said that although some of the women wept, some of them put their chins up, and looked angry, as if they refused to be made to feel bad.

Don't be scared of your hunger. If you're scared of your hunger, you'll just be one more ninny like everyone else.

She remembered what hope was, and this was it. That inner churning that moves you forward, plows you through life

deprivations never leave us.

No matter the difficulty, no matter the danger. He inspire them like no other since or before.

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.

If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.

Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.

as with any leader, it would be a mistake for him to show weakness or exhibit doubts …

there's nothing wrong with being scared to death. It can happen to the best. What counts is hanging on, somehow staying in control and doing what you know you should.

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts not amid joy.

Wilson imagined a conversation among European leaders as they realized they had been wrong, and Wilson right, about the war. "Do you not think it likely that the world will some time turn to America and say, 'You were right, and we were wrong. You kept your heads when we lost ours . . . Now, in your self-possession, in your coolness, in your strength, may we not turn to you for counsel and for assistance?' "23

Wilson worried that the Constitution itself would not survive: "a nation can't put its strength into a war and keep its head level; it has never been done."13

They stand as living proof of Marshal Ferdinand Foch's words "The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Did Wilson suffer a stroke on that day in late April? The evidence strongly suggests he did. It may not have been severe enough to render him unable to attend meetings or to cause him to withdraw from public settings, but that he was physically and mentally a different man after the date seems indisputable. If it was a stroke, it would leave him impaired just when he most needed his strength.

In the absence of any force to maintain law and order, power belonged to whoever was strong enough to seize it.

What was the secret of the Jews' strength and virtue? Origen offered the answer. First of all, their Scripture with its power to transform multitudes, "making the coward the hero, and the wicked good." Then there was their faith: a faith more powerful than human reason alone, because it was based on still higher wisdom, the wisdom of God.

America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other."8

Invincibility is in oneself, vulnerability is in the opponent. —SUN TZU, THE ART OF WAR

In Wilson's view, America's neutrality was a reflection of strength, moral strength, rather than weakness or timidity. His other slogan in 1916, besides "He Kept Us Out of War," was "Too Proud to Fight.