Quotes About Strength

i want to look at all my tears, she said. which made me shiver

God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty. …

There are certain men who, when faced with the choice of dying or doing the impossible, elect to live. This story is written in honor of their kind.

If she wanted something a certain way, and I was against it just to be bossy – then that would be controlling. If I had insisted on something that showed I cared only about myself – that would be controlling. But when you set a goal that shows you care about your loved ones and you stick to it even when people are against you, that's being strong.

Only concentrated action quells tyranny.

They say that God makes problems Just to see what you can stand Before you do as the devil pleases Give up the thing you love

I'll tell you what: I may have fucked my life up flatter than hammered shit, but I stand here before you today beholden to no human cocksucker.

You move forward. You face up to your challenges. You don't retreat. You're young, and sometimes you'll wish you could. But don't.

When you're down, remember your triumphs. That's what I need to tell the girls. Sometimes you get in trouble and crash. Other times: just a bumpy landing.

The first and great commandment is Don't let them scare you.

I'll be riding rough horses when you are salted away in a box.

He will be your Shaddai—your strength and satisfaction.

I have always thought, Mr. Bitts, that a hard man is good to find.

Ele virou-se para a olhar de frente e os seus olhos encontraram-se de um modo que tinha tudo que ver com amor, do tipo suficientemente forte para arrancar alguém da sepultura, do tipo de nunca esmorecer e nunca falhar

Gabriel actually laughed. "Luckily for Philippa, she's beautiful enought that another man will come along who has the balls to accept what she's offering.

Rage is a useful emotion. Rage burns away sorrow and disgrace.

He had told her that he would never care deeply for her, that he was incapable of strong feelings. Tess would - would /spit/ before she believed that nonsense.

He breathed a power brewed from masculinity and intelligence, not from an accident of inheritance.

For a moment, she remembered the pain of being called ugly, and then it melted away like soap washing down a drain. She had told herself a hundred times that she could be humiliated only if she allowed it: now she needed to believe it.

I'm not afraid because I love you and I will always love you. always. Your love stands between me and fear.

Didn't it say it all that Griffin couldn't make it to his own bloody front door without a cane? For all his was mahogany topped with a dull ruby, and hid in its innards a vicious blade, in the end it was an old man's stick.

He shifted his weight, and she saw he was leaning on a cane. It was hard to reconcile this infirmity with the muscled brute he appeared to be, but of course there was no way that strength could compensate for a partially missing limb.

Until, one day, she'd just . . . stopped. Not because the pain of losing him and the dream she'd carried for them had died, but because she'd learned that it was all right to live with pain and to use it. And in that, she'd found peace.

If you open this one, I want you to know that my respect for you has only deepened after learning of his seduction. You were taken advantage of, yet did not allow him to steal you, the essential you, the joyful you. You did not allow his evil intentions to define you.