Quotes About Strength

This paralysis is my greatest mercy.7

My wheelchair was the key to seeing all this happen—especially since God's power always shows up best in weakness. So here I sit … glad that I have not been healed on the outside, but glad that I have been healed on the inside. Healed from my own self-centered wants and wishes.

By the time we got to Woodstock we were half a million strongAnd everywhere there was song and celebrationAnd I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shotgun in the skyAnd they were turning into butterflies above our nation

You've got to shake your fists at lightning now. You've got to roar like forest fire.

She blew in like a hard west wind, the kind that dropped a man's bones to zero, froze his hair to his skull, and clogged his eyes with ice.

If you have courage, strengthen it…if you have none, develop it. We'll need it all through this conflict and afterward.

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You don't learn how to be a SEAL in BUD/S. You just learn how to suffer.

Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed.

In jou, Lizzie Rosenfeld, bange bakvis, dappere hoer, ondermaans onderwatermeisje, alleen in jou verdiep ik mij, dompel ik mij onder, graaf ik mij in, tot victorieuze verstikking toe.

And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.

So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them—at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.

The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. Status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.

You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you aare always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.

Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honour.

Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?

It is necessary to be strong in the face of death, because death is intrinsic to life. It is for this reason that I tell my students: aim to be the person at your father's funeral that everyone, in their grief and misery, can rely on. There's a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity.

There's a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.

There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together

There is very little difference between the capacity for mayhem and destruction, integrated, and strength of character. This is one of the most difficult lessons of life.

But there will be times in your life when it will take everything you have to face what is in front of you, instead of hiding away from a truth so terrible that the only thing worse is the falsehood you long to replace it with.

What is the moral of the story? Make yourself colorful, stand out, and the lions will take you down. And the lions are always there.

truth, virtue, and courage are not necessarily enough, but they are our best bet.

To stand up straight with your shoulders back means building the ark that protects the world from the flood, guiding your people through the desert after they have escaped tyranny, making your way away from comfortable home and country, and speaking the prophetic word to those who ignore the widows and children. It means shouldering the cross that marks the X, the place where you and Being intersect so terribly.