Quotes About Strength

Jennie never did reject me, however. Oh no. She loved me to the very end. Her love for me was more powerful than anything the Archibalds could undermine.

All the great pillars of my life are crumbling. I must constantly remind myself that I am not the only grieving person in the world. And yet, the loss of Reba is a terrible cross to bear and I do not think I have the strength for it.

She felt his shoulders began to convulse, faintly, regularly, almost as if he was weeping. But that was, of course, impossible, as Pendergast would never cry.

If nobody was going to save her, she was going to save herself.

sometimes she didn't know her own strength, and she didn't understand that people were a lot more fragile than she was. Sometimes she was rougher than she intended, you see. Did you know that a full-grown female chimpanzee is three to five times stronger than a man?

R.'s chemotherapy is going better than expected. Total loss of hair, though. We are praying together for the first time since the early part of our marriage, and I am more filled with love for her than ever. She seems so broken and helpless; but God's love will give her and both of us strength.

A striking man stood in the doorway behind him: perhaps sixty-five, with a great shock of white hair. The hair was the only thing that looked at all old about him; he was close to six and a half feet tall, with a craggy, handsome face bronzed by the sun, a trim, athletic bearing, wearing a blue blazer over a crisp white cotton shirt and tan slacks. He radiated good health and vigorous living. His hands were massive.

we are the half-destroyed instruments that once held a course

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters that beak which grips her, she becomes.

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.

On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble.

Necessity is stronger far than art.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.

When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.

Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

When strength and justice are true yoke-fellows, where can be found a mightier pair than they?

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?