Quotes About Strength

car il n'est point vrai que l'oeuvre de l'homme est finie que nous n'avons rien à faire au monde que nous parasitons le monde qu'il suffit que nous nous mettions au pas du monde mais l'oeuvre de l'homme vient seulement de commencer et il reste à l'homme à conquérir toute interdiction immobilisée aux coins de sa ferveur et aucune race ne possède le monopole de la beauté, de l'intelligence, de la force . . .

I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.

It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

Where we once had fear we now have courage, because we have been given knowledge.

Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life. I think of it like my shadow — sometimes I see a lot of it, sometimes there's very little, but it's always with me.

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

We can do very little with faith, But we can do nothing without it. And so without prayer, Life would be a sad exit.

The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

I have always been a softie, and I fight it with every fiber of my being. Sadly, my being's fibers need to hit the gym.

Stark and egregious errors, the truly epic failures, forge character. They burnish your edges and make you the person you are.

My family is my strength and my weakness.

FORGIVENESS MIGHT WORK in a monastery, I hear you say, but if we give that sort of forgiveness in real life, we'll be taken advantage of. People will walk all over us — they'll just think we're weak. I agree. Such forgiveness rarely works on its own. As the saying goes, "He who turns the other cheek, must visit the dentist twice, rather than once!

when life shovels shit on you, shrug it off, tread it in, and you will always stand higher in life.

Whenever the current is stronger than you are, that is the time to go with the flow. When you are able to be effective, that is the time to put forth effort.

Damos gracias a Dios por sus milagros, pero también por la suficiencia de su gracia que nos permite perseverar en medio de las tormentas (2Co 12:7–10).

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy.

I fight White supremacy by raising my daughter to take up space and make her voice heard in a world that wants to quiet her. Rochelle Rice, musician

I admit that I keep in my mind a romantic notion of an essential Blackness—and I use it as armor.

my recovered glow informs the way I move through the world as a Black woman.

There are 3 reasons for why you can't beat me. First, I'm better looking than you are. Second, your blows are too light. And third, there's nothing in the world I can't tear up.

Your path to this point, the trials you have suffered... taking each of those things that knocked you down and made you grind your teeth and then standing up again is what makes a true hero.

When I was small, it seems that I was very weak and sickly. My father used to complain about this state of affairs in spite of the fact that "we had the yokozuna [champion sumo wrestler] Umegatani hold you in his arms when you were a baby so that you would grow strong.