Quotes About Strength

Like so many men, he needed a woman stronger than himself, for behind the harsh cragginess of the Easter Island façade cowered the small boy, uncertain of himself.

But as far as I'm concerned, Mary is always going to look a lot like Imogene Herdman--sort of nervous and bewildered, but ready to clobber anyone who laid a hand on her baby.

sometimes life is really hard. It just is. Things happen that make you want to die, but if you hang on, they do eventually get better.

Mitten on a Bottle

Remember that to yourself, you are and always will be the strongest element in your environment. That's why any job, right or wrong, will teach you important lessons about yourself. The truth is that personal development is the real reason you should be working in the first place.

Autonomy and separatism are fundamentally different. Whereas autonomy comes from a position of strength, separatism comes from a position of fear. When we're truly autonomous we can deal with other kinds of people, a multiplicity of issues, and with difference, because we have formed a solid base of strength.

Think of your own life. Haven't your most valuable lessons come from your most trying experiences? Hard times, like heavy weights, build muscle. I observed, among the women I interviewed, that the most audacious were those who had endured the most adversity, especially as children

When your intentions are deep and compelling, and your commitment strong and inflexible, you're more likely to keep going when the going gets rough.

When your intentions are deep and compelling, and your commitment strong and inflexible, you're more

He gains strength from the myth of his wife's incompetence.

Insensitive people are powerful and the thoroughly thick-skinned are the most powerful. They make the best tyrants.

The impetus of existing plans is always stronger than the impulse to change.

The poorest man in his cottage may bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter; the rain may enter—but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!

Believing themselves superior in soul, in strength, in energy, industry, and national virtue, Germans felt they deserved the dominion of Europe.

To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution.

Its Seventh Commandment, italicized by the authors, stated: "Battles are beyond everything else struggles of morale. Defeat is inevitable as soon as the hope of conquering ceases to exist. Success comes not to him who has suffered the least but to him whose will is firmest and morale strongest.

Evaluation of enemy strength is not an absolute, but a matter of piecing together scraps of reconnaissance and intelligence to form a picture, if possible a picture to fit preconceived theories or to suit the demands of a particular strategy. What a staff makes out of the available evidence depends upon the degree of optimism or pessimism prevailing among them, on what they want to believe or fear to believe, and sometimes upon the sensitivity or intuition of an individual.

Far from a source of suffering, their adopted faith had been a source of power.

The persistence of the normal is strong.

As in older and later empires, resources were not equal to the overextension of the imperial reach.

The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.

Success comes not to him who has suffered the least but to him whose will is firmest and morale strongest.

Sternly saving his greatest strength for the right wing, he did not yield to that vaulting ambition in his plan. But the lure of the left wing remained to tempt his successors.

Kitchener up to London, but could not yet nerve himself