Quotes About Strength

From heartache came strength, from strength, satisfaction.

Solía decir que algunas personas no eran capaces de distinguir y encontrar las perlas entre la arena, o únicamente tenían la fuerza de carácter para quitar la arena de unas cuantas perlas y terminaban sólo con una gargantilla.

foot—bending stiffly, Jack thought. Steve gave her a single

People don't cry because they're weak. They cry because they've been strong for too long.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.

Breast cancer, I can now report, did not make me prettier or stronger, more feminine or spiritual. What it gave me, if you want to call this a "gift," was a very personal, agonizing encounter with an ideological force in American culture that I had not been aware of before—one that encourages us to deny reality, submit cheerfully to misfortune, and blame only ourselves for our fate.

No one else can fight your battles for you. In the end we all stand alone. So when it comes your time to stand front and center, raise your chin high, look everyone straight in the eye and know in your heart that you're up to the challenge.

that last leg. She had been

You can't stop the thunder. You just have to let it roll over you. And then when it's done, you get up and keep going.

independence sprang from those years when I

she felt incredibly fragile, which was not how she liked to feel.

Real strength comes in the face of adversity.

head. She would not be stopped, not

Cuando tocas fondo, pierdes el miedo...y es fantástico.

One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.

We can face whatever comes once we have relinquished our lives and the lives of our loved ones to Him. He is the God we can trust for strength each day. He is the One with all the love and understanding, who has a clear and eternal purpose for us.

As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.

If you bring forth what's inside you, what's inside you will strengthen you. If you don't bring forth what's inside you, what's inside you will destroy you.

I'm so glad to have a feisty female around here to help me keep these boys under control. I been needing a girl on my team.

and you and I are on our own. No magic wand is gonna fix things." I didn't want to believe that, so I pushed those words away so I wouldn't have to think about them. Then I said, "Did

ole Waffle House,

song. I stood up straight