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Quotes About Strength

When you feel like things are out of control, you take control. Yeah, that's what you do. Take control. So, yeah. Oh, yeah.
~ Barry Lyga
If you don't feel anything, you can't be hurt.
~ Barry Lyga
And if it's locked, I'll knock it the hell down." He thinks when he busts out "hell" I take him more seriously. Yeah. Insert eye roll here.
~ Barry Lyga
Billy always survived. Like a cockroach. The world's smartest, meanest, craziest cockroach.
~ Barry Lyga
I won't let myself be used or manipulated. I won't let myself be a hypocrite. I am foe me. I am not weak. For anyone.
~ Barry Lyga
Violence suits you.
~ Barry Lyga
You're not smart enough to be afraid of me.
~ Barry Lyga
I think, "I can do this. I think I can do this. I think I can make it through the summer. One last summer. That's not so bad, right?" In bed, the voice says nothing, but its silence tells me everything.
~ Barry Lyga
Because challenge is the key to maintaining vitality of mind and body!
~ Barry Powell
Sometimes, being optimistic is the only thing you can do in the moment.
~ Barry Powell
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong: and a boy deprived of a father's care often develops, if he escapes the perils of youth, an independence and a vigour of thought which may restore in after life the heavy loss of early days.
~ Barry Singer
When you in de right you heart strong you no 'fraid nottin'.
~ Barry Unsworth
It's extraordinary, is it not, Cornelius? A creature of such power--shaken by his own shadow! Driven by fear--of himself!
~ Barry Windsor-Smith
That agony is our triumph.
~ Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Blessed are the weak who think they are good because they have no claws.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Reason cannot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
~ Baruch Spinoza
aquele que quer responder às injúrias com o ódio vive na tristeza ou na mágoa, aquele que quer vencer o ódio com o amor combate alegremente e sem temor. Triunfa tanto sobre um grande número de inimigos quanto sobre um único, prescindindo de todo socorro da fortuna. Aqueles a quem ele consegue vencer ficam alegres por terem sido derrotados; e, derrotados, eles não são menos fortes; ao contrário, são mais fortes.
~ Baruch Spinoza
that he that is strong hates no man, is angry with no man, envies no man, is indignant with no man, despises no man, and least of all things is proud.
~ Baruch Spinoza
How can you be afraid to feel? Isn't fear a feeling? If you're feeling fear, you've felt one of the most negative emotions there is to feel. Everything else should be a piece of cake.
~ Bashar
Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid.
~ Basil King
The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
~ Basil O'Connor