Quotes About Strength

I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch ... and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order ... by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.

Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.

when you lose your sails, row.

But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.

Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim....Be patient and strong; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Courage isn't about the absence of fear. Courage is doing the one thing you think you cannot do.

The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.

When everything you're about to see is too much, look up and see that the sky is clear and know that everything is going to be all right.

Rainbows always gave her hope—hope that something beautiful waited for those strong enough to survive the storm.

Even in the blackest darkness, there is always light shining somewhere.

Sometimes hope is all we have, and to lose that is to lose all.

You're strong at the broken places.

Must take care of de root for to heal de tree.

He was just born with inner demons that were always stronger than he was.

a heartbreak only makes your heart bigger, that someday all those cracks and holes will be filled in with all the joy and love you haven't had yet.

you never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

Life doesn't get easier. We just get stronger.

Be patient and strong; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Survival is like a stone wall, and kindness is a door.

Actually, they're really just ordinary plants. But they've learned to survive unordinary events, which makes them like the strongest plants in the world. That's pretty cool.

I needed to learn that you never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

and fallen yet managed to pull themselves back up. People who were brave enough to try again in a place known for its extremes, or simply too hardheaded to admit defeat.

Being brave is feeling frightened and still doing what needs to be done.

I didn't want who I was to rub off on you too much, like a weak spirit was contagious.