Quotes About Strength

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, cruelly mocked, but it an never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Find a voice in a whisper.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.

Right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had.

Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.

Only through an inner spiritual transformation do we gain the strength to fight vigorously the evils of the world in a humble and loving spirit.

and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky...

God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able.

we must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear

If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.

The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage that they did not know they had. Finally it reaches the opponent and so stirs his conscience that reconciliation becomes a reality.

Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amidst the piercing chill of an Alpine November.

out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope

If you can't fly then run. If you can't run, then walk. And, if you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.

With initial success, every social revolution simultaneously does two things: It attracts to itself fresh forces and strength, and at the same time it crystallizes the opposition.

If you can't run then walk If you can't walk then crawl but whatever you do don't give up