Quotes About Strength

Many of my river trips came in between jobs as it was a way to take stock and think about my professional path. It was on these in-between-jobs river trips that I realized being an effective leader means gaining the strength of others like tributaries feeding into the river, keeping the flow strong and steady. Instead of trying to blast through obstacles, it is better to negotiate around them with the help of rising waters.

My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30.

I am glad we've been bombed,' said the Queen famously. 'It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand -- like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

Katharine Hepburn

How I miss you two. I was so used to turning to you. It was heaven. Always to have you two to turn to in despair, in joy. There you were: strong—funny. Two rocks. What you did for me—wow! What luck to be born out of love and to live in an atmosphere of warmth and interest.

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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

Conroy himself suffered cruelties and injustices throughout his life, from the time he was a child beaten by a violent and abusive father. The man who emerged from the crucible of chronic trauma was a warrior of words, determined to bear witness to the wrongs inflicted on the innocent and vulnerable by the corrupt and powerful.

Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.

In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It's feeble to be an object. What's the point of being loved in return, I'd ask myself.

Katherine Garbera

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

I have learned that no matter how bad, how really rotten your life gets - I mean,like,it just couldn't get any worse - there is always hope." -Pamela Collins

An illusion of weakness, masking phenomenal strength.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

It wasn't that she didn't want to die. Nor was it that she wanted to live. She just didn't want to give up.

I do not need a scabbard to sheathe my mind.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare!

Gather up these four results. Christians are not orphans, and therefore not desolate. Peace is theirs—peace which Christ gives, as the world cannot give, through the ministry of a Person ever present. In the strength of that peace they become His witnesses, because they have a perpetual vision of the Lord.

Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.