Quotes About Strength

feelings come in a daisy chain. all entwined together and beautiful as a whole but there are always the weak flowers somewhere in the links.

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it is a comfort to go hand in hand.

The courage which strengthens an enemy and which so loses, not only the present battle, but many after battles, is a heavy curse to men and nations.

Women have now marvelous means of winning their way in the world, and mind without muscle has far greater force than muscle without mind.

The dignified parts of Government are those which bring it force—which attract its motive power. The efficient parts only employ that power. The comely parts of a Government HAVE need, for they are those upon which its vital strength depends. They may not do anything definite that a simpler polity would not do better; but they are the preliminaries, the needful prerequisites of ALL work. They raise the army, though they do not win the battle.

So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

I am Born Free How Someone Can Hold Me In The Manacles of Slavery.

Life is no guarantee so we must be prepared to face the upcoming challenges.

You can turn me into dust but you cannot suppress my voice of freedom.

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.

While over all springs up the green-lifed sod, And arch, so light and lofty in its span-- So frail and yet so lasting--tis like man.

I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause.

If you really love each other, you'd be surprised what you can accomplish.

One must say Yes to life, and embrace it wherever it is found -- and it is found in terrible places.

Out of joy strength came, strength that was fashioned to bear sorrow: sorrow brought forth joy. Forever? This was Ezekiel's wheel, in the middle of the burning air forever -- and the little wheel ran by faith, and the big wheel ran by the grace of God.

Sometimes a minute can be a mighty powerful thing.

Nothing tamed or broke her, nothing touched her, neither kindness, nor scorn, nor hatred, nor love. She had never thought of prayer. It was unimaginable that she would ever bend her knees and come crawling along a dusty floor to anybody's altar.

Perhaps everybody has a garden of Eden, I don't know; but they have scarcely seen their garden before they see the flaming sword. Then, perhaps, life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it. Either, or: it takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget.

The truth is that, to every genius there is a characteristic weakness, a defect to which it naturally leans, and into which, in those inevitable moments when inspiration flags, it is apt to subside.

Energy, even like the biblical grain of mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

All human power is a compound of time and patience. Powerful beings will and wait.