Quotes About Strength

The world is a cruel place, Petrosinella, and it wounds the weak.

Standing in the dusk watching the great yellow eye of the tram light rushing towards her, she understood why some words were worth binding in leather and handing on. In the darkest hour, all the other humans who'd known dark hours were there with you. They'd been to the dark places before you, and they were with you now.

But the idea was stronger than the impossibility of it. Even to recognise that longing and give voice to it was a kind of power.

A woman can do many things, but she has to bide her time.

had proved myself stronger than life had ever asked him to be.

For me, being together, fellow souls joined in fear, was some comfort. For him, that was weakness. In taking his hand I was telling him what I had seen, and that was something he could not allow.

It has puzzled me that men, who claim more and more authority over women, show such fear of those whom they call weak. Perhaps they are hoping that women will come to believe that they need to be protected and dominated, but I cannot imagine any woman being so foolish.

Though they are fine to see, horses frighten me because they are large and weak minded, which is a dangerous combination in horses, men, and gods.

Though they are fine to see, horses frighten me because they are large and weak minded, which is a dangerous thing in horses, men and gods.

Sometimes suffering is just suffering," she told Gus. "It doesn't make you stronger. It doesn't build character. It only hurts.

Women do amazing, creative, wonderful things.

toughness creates a smoke screen to mask vulnerability

I saw in one flash that the most courageous thing a person can do is to love without being afraid.

I believe she's blown some dust off her heart.

Freedom is our strength but comes with responsibility, went my thinking; it had to be tended and fed, or some such lofty idealism in a schoolgirl's musing.

You fight and you fall and you get up and fight some more. But there will always come a day when you cannot fight another minute more.

Woman is too volatile and spiritual, a being to be kept down by mere brute force," she [Elizabeth Packard] wrote. "You can cage a bird and thus keep her down on a level with her serpent-mate, but just give her the use of her powers, its freedom, and she will rise.

What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.

the bravest act of war is love.

She had that kind of undeniable femininity that few women achieve, bogged down as we are by other things.

I have often observed that the state of motherhood can turn quite ordinary females into heroines . . .

Don't tell me women aren't the stuff of heroes.

She is quick and curious and playful and strong.