Quotes About Strength

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. Hope is one of those things that you can't buy, but that will be freely given to you if you ask. Hope is the one thing people cannot live without. Hope is a thing of beauty.

If you give your body a choice, it will always take the easy way out. Your body lies. It tells you it cannot when it can.

Matthew MacDonald

We're all damaged. Every single beautiful, stupid, precious one of us.

and luckily I have enough in my head to balance what is wanting in my back.

Obsession of a strong-hearted woman, Mr. Dolby, can be more dangerous than ten men.

The same thing as you, the same as she. The same as anyone who has ever been doubted or told to go away. To prove myself better.

Self-actualization, for a man, is self-mastery, the strength to govern his appetites and passions and not be governed by them.

Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

Why do you have to study together?" Mr. Ray asked. "When I was a boy we didn't study in droves. And what help is all the fudge?" "Nourishment, Papa, nourishment," Betsy explained. "We need strength.

Muster your wits: stand in your own defense.

cadenassée. Les ceps nus, noirs, tordus, ressemblent

It took a lot of women like that, a lot of women who said I'm not going to do what you expect me to do, because you have no idea what I'm capable of. I'm going to get dirty and use tools and live the way I want to move the world forward.

Life is always going to be a series of ouch-making moments, and the question was, was I going to go all fetal position, or was I going to woman up? I went into fetal position on the bed to think about this. Fetal position turned out to be very comfortable.

Her kung fu is that powerful.

Although it was very cold, he wore no coat. I think some English people think coats are for the weak.

It just seemed like telling the truth would mean admitting some weakness

You can't curl up on the sofa and deny life forever. Life is always going to be a series of ouch-making moments, and the question was, was I going to go all fetal-position or was I going to woman up?

In your worst and darkest moments remember that you have seen another kind of world. Remember that you can reach it whenever you choose to see. Remember that it will be waiting and that it's real, it's possible - it's yours.

there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you—knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that.

Roark stood before them as each man stands in the innocence of his own mind. But Roark stood like that before a hostile crowd—and they knew suddenly that no hatred was possible to him.

The statue was of a young man with a tall, gaunt body and an angular face. He held his head as if he faced a challenge and found joy in his capacity to meet it. All that Dagny wanted of life was contained in the desire to hold her head as he did.