Quotes About Strength

Shirlee McCoy

Shirlee McCoy

As I stand there in the immaculate evening I do not find it strange to be fighting an entire town, a whole county. I am alone, yes, of course I am, but I am not particularly afraid. The house was empty and lonely before—I just did not realize it—it's no worse now. I know that I shall hurt as much as I have been hurt. I shall destroy as much as I have lost.

In a long pause he was made to feel her superior strength, and the fact that she had been withholding it for years out of charity.

Her great weapon was her weakness, the massive deterrent to which all deferred.

There are those, too, who befriend the weak because they feel themselves unworthy of the strong. Because they cannot bring themselves to honour abilities greater than their own.

Our house was a castle, turreted and open to the sky.

I decided that I would choose three powerful words, words of strong protection, and so long as these great words were never spoken aloud no change would come.

Sometimes the people who knock you down never turn once to look.

We never know where our courage is coming from.

The reassuring bulk of the college buildings showed ahead of her, and she looked fondly up at them and smiled. As she had never been before, she was now alone, and grown-up, and powerful, and not at all afraid.

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside. "No," she said aloud, and the one word echoed.

Now I will be heard, and when I choose to be heard, the lowest legions of hell may turn in vain to silence me and when I choose to speak not all the winds of earth can drown my voice.

Don't be so afraid all the time. We never know where our courage is coming from.

A courtesan, a pilgrim, a princess, and a bullfighter.

Don't be so afraid all the time, she said and reached out to touch Eleanor's cheek with one finger. We never know where our courage is coming from.

It means moving forward with courage," she answered.

You'll be okay. No matter what shape reality takes, you can handle it.

Now that we're all together, nothing can stop us!

A receipt is as strong as a thatched roof.

To make a long story short, you know quite well that when a woman puts her foot down, she wins.

The wise man blesses the whip that flogs him," says my mother.

But after the last straw, there's always more, as my mother says.

The worse heartache," says my mother, "is the one you can't bare.