Quotes About Strength

Your own healing is the greatest message of hope for others.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. —MOTHER TERESA

Pages tutor us in courage.

Debemos permitir que nos golpee el rayo del dolor. No lo olvides: este dolor es útil, el relámpago ilumina.

Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong.

Illegitemus non carborundum est ("Don't let the bastards grind you down").

Don't let the hand you hold hold you down.

Voy a hacer un rompeolas con mi alegria pequena. No quiero que sepa el mar que por mi pecho van penas.

I am life, I am strength, I am woman.

Rio Grande de Loíza!... Río grande. LLanto grande. El más grande de todos nuestros llantos isleños, si no fuera mas grande el que de mí se sale por los ojos del alma para mi esclavo pueblo. Río Grande de Loíza!...Great river. Great flood of tears. The greatest of all our island's tears save those greater that come from the eyes of my soul for my enslaved people.

but boys who like the tough sports—boys who are virtually nursed on that potion of hustle, slam, and grunt—they're the ones with the best chance in life.

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Remorse, etymologically, is the action of biting again: that's what the feeling does to you. Imagine the strength of the bite when I reread my words. They seemed like some ancient curse I had forgotten even uttering.

The strong cannot help confronting; the less strong cannot help evading.

It was perfectly possible to be an artist, yet also to be robust and responsible.

Never forget, the most vulnerable spot is down the middle.

Fearless to the strong; humble to the weak

OK, then, well, are you a feminist?' She smiled at me. 'Naturally – I am a woman.

She was right off that scale, stranger; hurricane force nine was a gentle breeze where she came from.

In a novel, all his life's anxieties, his mixture of strength and weakness, his potential for hysteria - all would have been swirled away in a vortex of love leading to the blissful calm of marriage. But one of life's many disappointments was that it was never a novel, not by Maupassant or anyone else. Well, perhaps a short satirical tale by Gogol.

How could I possibly be a better person without her than with her? Later, I thought: but he is just echoing Nietzsche's line about what doesn't kill us making us stronger. And as it happens, I have long considered this epigram particularly specious. There are many things that fail to kill us but weaken us for ever. Look around at those emotionally damaged by mere ordinary life.

Not over-interested in domestic matters, it was true; but then neither was he. In a novel, all his life's anxieties, his mixture of strength and weakness, his potential for hysteria--all would have been swirled away in a vortex of love leading to the blissful calm of marriage. But one of life's many disappointments was that it was never a novel, not by Maupassant or anyone else. Well, perhaps a short satirical tale by Gogol (p.38)

Those who survive, or excel, or overmaster are merely those who are better organised and wave bigger guns; those who are better at killing.

She doesn't want his sympathy. She hates pity.