Quotes About Strength

Neither arms nor armor can deliver Corenwald—only the arm of the One God.

looked him in the eye. He said, 'I ain't a hard man, Mr. Bear, but I ain't gonna

Courage is the will to lay aside fear because your desire to do right outweighs your desire to avoid getting hurt.

But where there is no fear, there can be no courage.

Are you ready to fight?" "We'll have to be ready, won't we? You make do with what you have.

We overcame because the One God fought on our behalf—the God who

There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.

A leader should never try to be all things to all people. A leader should be content to be what he or she is. Leaders must have the strength to know what they cannot be if they are to have the courage to be themselves.

I realised that health is not a matter of never being ill. It is the ability to recover.

Leadership demands two kinds of courage: the strength to take a risk, and the humility to admit when a risk fails.

Faith is not certainty. It is the courage to live with uncertainty.

A true parent is one who fights battles on our behalf when we are young and defenceless, but who, once we have matured, gives us the inner strength to fight for ourselves.

Instead we hear a constant insistence that the strength of a nation – certainly of Israel/Judah – is not military or demographic but moral and spiritual. If the people keep faith with God and one another, no force on earth can defeat them. If they do not, no force can save them.

as Katharine Hepburn majestically said to Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Nature, Mr Allnut, is what we were put on earth to rise above.

There neither was nor would be a time when Israel could rely on numbers, or vast tracts of territory, or easily defensible borders. So it was then. So it is now.

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Corinthians 12:9).

Achilles roars at his mother: "...Do not attempt to keep me from the fight, though you love me; you cannot make me listen.

But I do get afraid. It's just that fear makes me sort of . . . angry and resentful, and I bite back at it. It's hard to describe." It isn't hard to describe, you idiot," Aud said. "It's called courage.

Doubts, like ghosts, gain strength in darkness; even with the dawn I wasn't sure I'd done the right thing.

This was how you did it. This was how your spirit stayed strong. This was how you looked death in the eye and defied it.

One eye was black and closed. I allowed myself a smile. Despite my predicament, there were still a few things left in life to enjoy.

She was no demon — no magician — she was better than they were.

In principle, there's nothing shameful about struggling when a building falls upon you. I've had such problems before. It's part of the job description.

To the end of his life, the strongest man in Iceland was always afraid of the dark.