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Quotes About Strength

Self-pity is wasted emotion. It merely prolongs whatever trauma you suffered by keeping it alive in your head. Dude, you survived it. Move on.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Emotions"—he raised a hand, made a fist, clenched it tightly—"are like holding water. You open your hand, there's nothing there. Better to be a weapon than a woman.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Accept that you're outgunned? Stay on the floor and don't even try to fight? What kind of life is that?
~ Karen Marie Moning
Hope is a critical thing. Without it, we are nothing. Hope shapes the will. The will shapes the world.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I feel stronger in the chapel. Here, the divine defies the devil at our door. Faith is an unquenchable flame in my heart.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I can either give in to fear and give up—or refuse to let it touch me and go on.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Sometimes when all hell's breaking loose the only thing to do is to break more hell loose.
~ Karen Marie Moning
When we're kids," Dancer said, "we're made of steel. And we think we're invincible but stuff happens and that steel gets stretched and pulled and twisted into impossible shapes. Most people are torn apart by the time they're married and have kids of their own. But some people, the few, figure out how to let that steel heat and bend. And in all the places other people break, they get stronger.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I'm not afraid of Hell. I lived there once. And if I have to go back again, I'll swagger through those gates with fire in my blood and war in my heart. And I'll. Take. No. Prisoners.
~ Karen Marie Moning
She's brilliant and kind and has the heart of a warrior but she doesn't have ice and razor blades inside where your soul is supposed to be. She loves. And she doesn't know how to take it back when you have to, because sometimes you sure as feck have to. Got to grab it up with both hands and pull it back before somebody turns it into knives and uses it to cut you to pieces.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I will never again permit myself to forget that isolation is the first step to defeat.
~ Karen Marie Moning
She had an inner fire that begged provoking, just for the pleasure of watching it burn. Right.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Flames of another kind. Hellfire. You will believe you canna possibly endure the agony.
~ Karen Marie Moning
A gondolat ereje sokkal nagyobb, mint azt az emberek többsége hinné.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I don't know what I can and can't do, Cruce, but I will learn, and quickly, and if you make me learn the hard way, I'll turn every bit of it against you. I can be the sheepdog that walks at your side, or I can be the wolf you don't want living in your backyard. The powerful, hungry, savage, and pissed-off wolf, and I promise you, I will delight in destroying your backyard. I have a long memory and few scruples left. It's your call, babe.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Through the annals of history, women have paid a price for protection. One day, I won't have to.
~ Karen Marie Moning
You look like a pretty, soft, breakable Barbie. You fuck like a monster.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Kid, you just never give up." "I'm like, alive. How could I?
~ Karen Marie Moning
Strong enough that I was no longer afraid to be gentle. Powerful enough that I could be vulnerable. Scarred enough that I could understand and
~ Karen Marie Moning
Jillian gave him the most dazzling smile she could muster and placed her fist to her heart. "And the daughter wed the lion king," she said clearly.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Strength wasn't about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it.
~ Karen Marie Moning
They may have stolen my past, but I'll never let them take my future
~ Karen Marie Moning
Life took the strongest root with a little bit of rain and a whole lot of shit for fertilizer.
~ Karen Marie Moning