Quotes About Strength

The clearer and stronger your intention, the more quickly and easily your creative visualization will work.

The more willing you are to surrender to the energy within you, the more power can flow through you.

I lifted two hundred pounds today, Tenth once bragged to Fourth after a triumphant afternoon at the gym, flexing his arms and chest. Why? Fourth had asked. We have machines to do that for us now. It was a genuine inquiry, but Tenth had tackled him and held him in a headlock until Fourth admitted that lifting heavy weights was a reasonable pursuit despite mankind's significant mechanical progress.)

You can train weapons and fighting techniques, but you can't train that kind of courage and willpower. You either have it or you don't.

You have to realize where you stand, the ground underneath you, that's your battleground.

I held in my hand an invisible sword that sliced through every illusion. The sharpness of the blade gave me its icy and dazzling strength. I no longer believed in the compassion of men; I believed in the strength of the gods. I had averted my eyes from my suffering and fixed them on the stars.

The strength of the snow and the fire has turned you into a traveling magician. You heal people by holding their hands between yours, you make them forget the cold, hunger, sickness, and war.

My position at the Palace is our one opportunity. Have confidence in my destiny. Do not weep.

Tears are the weapons of the weak and the condolence of the powerful.

thank you that we are unable to save ourselves and that each time we try, we fail. Have mercy on us. Be the strength in our weakness. Clear our heads of the foolishness of believing we can be our own gods. Steer our hearts to utter dependence on you. Amen.

I've grown to admire the humor of a God who uses foolish things to shame the wisdom of this world, and weaklings to remind the strong that they may not be as mighty as they think they are.

What if I had not believed that I should see the goodness of the LORD : in the land of the living! O tarry and await the LORD's pleasure; be strong, and he shall comfort your heart : wait patiently for the LORD.

Augustine of Hippo: "In affliction, then, we do not know what it is right to pray for. Because affliction is difficult, troublesome and against the grain for us, weak as we are, we do what every human would do. We pray that it may be taken away from us. However, if he does not take it away, we must not imagine that he has forgotten us. In this way, power shines forth more perfectly in weakness.

strength and purpose come from you. Direct our steps today, and turn us from the perishable things at which we grasp. Cast your light upon us so that our lives may bear witness to the light of Christ. Amen.

Lord, thank you for using the foolish to confound the wise and the weak one: to shame the strong. Help us live with the shrewdness of serpents and the innocence of doves. Keep our feet from fatigue, our spirits from despair, and our hands from failing to rise in praise to you. Amen.

Rosa Parks commented, "People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Information is strength without coordination. We become a danger mostly to ourselves when we have it. Understanding is the ability to coordinate that raw information in meaningful ways. Understanding creates a certain enthusiasm. We can direct our knowledge toward potentially useful ends--but we may also be a danger to others. Wisdom, however, is knowing how, when, and why we use our understanding; wisdom is settling into our understanding without being too enamored by it.

I've been shot down so many times I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.

My heart is a protest that I let rally against my ribs.

How can you hold your ground when everyone around you is trying to bury you beneath it?

We are graduating members from the class of we made it, not the faded echoes of voices crying out names will never hurt me. Of course they did. But our lives will ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty.

getting over it/ just means getting around it/ and sometimes/ you gotta go through it/ leave it torn and blasted apart

I've been spat on and shat on And raped and abused.

Hear the rebels' voices calling 'I shall not die, though you bury me!' from 'Aisling