Quotes About Strength

Trouble always comes and no use wishing it didn't. Thing is, to get through it – and out the other side. If there is another side.

Terror is just the cousin of courage

You have to try to shore up the levee when the flood races down. Even with your bare hands.

and the force of public opinion, tiny though the public here may be, is a thing so violent violence is not needed to carry it.

A lucky man is a man you want fighting near you and he gives the needful sense that the world is a thing of mysteries and wonders. That it's bigger than you, bigger than all the shit and blood you seen, That God might be in it somehow looking out for you.

Angst ist ein schlecht dressierter Kampfhund, den man nicht an der Leine halten kann, wenn er Blut wittert.

Just as the battered wife stops the police from arresting the husband who beats her, Timmy's love for his mother and fear of losing her was much greater and stronger than his fear of further abuse

Meditation is both the symbol and expression of our intention to grow. Sitting still, alone with our thoughts and feelings, we can honor missed opportunities, passing desires, remembered disappointments, as well as our inner strength, personal wisdom, and ability to forgive and love.

Possessing strength and stillness is a sign of balance: power and serenity combined in one moment. It's challenging enough to hold either one, let alone both, in perfect equipoise, but that is the goal if we want to be balanced.

Only hardness or only softness creates an inability to deal effectively with the fluctuations of life.

the companion lion who overcomes all enemies, the kings and queens who command power over life, give us imaginative reconstructions of the small child's world. We

La trappola per topi è un regalo di Natale, da parte di un topo che sarebbe rimasto catturato nella trappola del mondo se non era stato elevato a capitano di cavalleria. E allora ebbe la forza di cavarsela.

I want to believe that her memory will soon come back, because we don't have the strength to fight against forgetting.

If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead.

Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstriped suit.

He who is brave is free.

He is most powerful who has power over himself

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.

Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.