Quotes About Strength

I couldn't tell him that I felt too weak and beat up to climb a mountain: sometimes, all the guts you have is the guts you pretend, because you love someone too much to lose their respect.

You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time

It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it.

A strong man can make his own luck.

Sometimes the lion must roar to remind the horse of his fear.

We know that crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength.

Suffering, let me see. I think that suffering is a matter of choice. I think that we do not have to suffer anything in this life, if we are strong enough to deny it. The strong man can master his feelings so completely that it is almost impossible to make him suffer. When we do suffer things, like pain and so, it means that we have lost control. So I will say that suffering is a human weakness.

it's a very hard thing to resist, real goodness, in a tough man.

Her beauty was injured by the wound but not ravaged by it.

She was a river, not a stone, and every day was another curve in tomorrow's plain. She was pulled from a family she loved, and that loved her, she thought, until they took the word of a man, a friend and neighbour, who raped her. Years later, when she killed the rapist and went on the run, she severed every connection to her own life. She was runaway tough, a dancing cat, a green witch, and safe from everything but herself, like me.

I joked and laughed about things that made other less wounded hearts weep, and I'd learned to harden myself against loss and death.

Sometimes the river of life takes you to the rocks. The letter

There is an element of control we have over suffering.

good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

My heart moved through deep and silent water. No-one, and nothing, could really hurt me. No-one, and nothing, could make me very happy. I was tough, which is probably the saddest thing you can say about a man.

La sofferenza non è necessariamente un segno di debolezza; con uno sforzo di volontà è possibile sopportarla: la forza di volontà nasce da un severo autocontrollo, che è di per sè una forma di sofferenza volontaria

with the words, but hearing them in

Tears begin in the heart, but some of us deny the heart so often, and for so long, that when it speaks we hear not one but a hundred sorrows in the heartbreak. We know that crying is a good and natural thing. We know that crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength. Still, the weeping rips us root by tangled root from the earth, and we crash like fallen trees when we cry.

I told him,' she said, 'that a good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

and in minutes we were in blackness again, with nothing but faith and fear and the will to survive.

Suffering, let me see. I think that suffering is a matter of choice. I think that we do not have to suffer anything in this life, if we are strong enough to deny it. The strong man can master his feelings so completely that it is almost impossible to make him suffer. When we do suffer things, like pain and so, it means that we have lost control. So I will say that suffering is a human weakness. - Madjid

Ein guter Mann ist so stark, wie er es für die richtige Frau sein muss.

The lines, high on her cheeks, were the dams she used to keep the tears in her eyes. Unspoken, unanswerable questions parted her full, red lips, whenever she was alone, or absorbed in her work.

There were many, so many men and women, beginning with my own mother, whose courage and sacrifice inspired the memory of them.