Quotes About Strength

I needed to stop being victimized by my own weaknesses and insecurities about other people

Whatever doesn't kill you, it's gonna leave a scar

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that's important—you know

Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.

How I wish you could have known me in my strength.

Pity us, yes, but we are brave, she thought, and wild, more life in us than we can bear, the fire infolding itself in us. That peace could only be amazement, too.

While you read this, I am imperishable, somehow more alive than I have ever been, in the strength of my youth, with dear ones beside me. You read the dreams of an anxious, fuddled old man, and I live in a light better than any dream of mine—not waiting for you, though, because I want your dear perishable self to live long and to love this poor perishable world...

morality is a check upon the strongest temptations.

I'd rather drop dead doing for myself than add a day to my life by acting helpless.

There was no more the stoop of her high

walking along beside him that night, along that rutted road, through that empty world—what a sweet strength I felt, in him, and in myself, and all around us.

Pity us, yes, but we are brave, she thought, and wild, more life in us than we can bear, the fire infolding itself within us.

Finally, I hope that this book is inspirational and teaches everyone that there is no obstacle that you cannot overcome if you have the will and love for what you do.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

Power wears out those who do not have it.

Your enemies always get strong on what you leave behind.

God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals

The art of this was to ignore all insults, all threats; to turn the other cheek.

you can't let other men impose their will on you or life's not worth living.

The man who plays alone never loses.' " Guiliano

Walter Kaylin was great! He was outrageous, he just carried it off. He'd have this one guy killing a thousand other guys. Then they beat him into the ground, you think he's dead, but he rises up again and kills another thousand guys.

If the Clericuzio Family was the Holy Church for the Mafia empires scattered over the United States, then the head of the Family, Don Domenico Clericuzio was the Pope, admired not only for his intelligence but for his strength.

With a great effort the Don opened his eyes to see his son once more. ... He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, Life is so beautiful. ... Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, Life is so beautiful, then nothing else is important. If I can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.