Quotes About Strength

My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my sense of humor.

As the illness attempts to diminish you, destroy you, or distract you, you've got to rely on your sense of style to help you to divert it, to defeat it and transcend it . . . . "illness style." A good synonym might be "strategy" except the word is too cold to describe something that's about being as alive and vibrant as possible.

Eve was a powerful partner for Adam, a strong and invaluable ally who fought the battles of life standing right beside him.

When Satan gets a foothold, we're in trouble. He wants us to lose our balance. He would love to pin us to the mat, rendering us ineffective for the kingdom. Once we give him a foothold, he can gain a stronghold over us and then go in for the choke hold, finishing us off.

When we make time to respond to Jesus' invitation to go away with him to a quiet place, we can crack-proof our spirits, making them strong and rendering us ready to handle life.

She was keen on the idea that a strong mind, enforced with a strong will, could overcome any difficulty.

I remembered a truism that I had always known: no woman need let a man know the contents of her mind.

I am supposed to buck up and celebrate a life

I can do this, I told myself. Somehow, I will survive and thrive.

You are Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon

there may come a time when you must go on, be strong without a friend until you can make new ones, stand on your own.

One thing I have learned from Mama is to fight for what I want

I've learned that you have to choose courage each day like you choose what shirt to wear. It is not automatic.

I reach out to hug her, and we stand still a moment. Her embrace is solid, tight in a good way. I might come apart if she lets go. It's funny how you don't know you are a bunch of pieces until someone hugs you together.

I've often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there's a fight to be won. If a woman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.

Love can't cure a broken heart, but it can hold the two sides together while they heal.

I dinna think tis romantic when a man says he's willin' t' give his life fer the woman he loves. Give me instead a man who'd fight to keep us both alive and kickin'! There's naught rommantic about a dead man, beau or no.

It's unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there's a fight to be won. If a woman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.

Family is the only anchor that will hold in a choppy sea.

the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.

Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to illuminate the darkness, to burn in spite of overwhelming odds.

The way I see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. Hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up. And I'm learning, watching Daddy, that you can stay in one place and still grow.

T]o make a decision presupposes the willingness and capacity to assume responsibility for it. This would include the risk of making a wrong decision and the willingness to bear the consequences without blaming others for them. It would involve feeling, "This is my choice, my doing," and presupposes more inner strength and independence than most people apparently have nowadays.

The mere fact that he has gone that far indicates that his will to come to grips with himself is strong enough to prevent him from being crushed.