Quotes About Strength

You do indeed have great power and talents, but have faith in the One who gave them to you.

If you draw your sword against those you sworn to protect, the very ones who trust in your strength, how will you convince them that you are a shield when the dragons come and take them away?

our fate has already been decided for us, the only thing we can do is stand strong and face our destiny head on

For the Germanic peoples, unity or disunity was the crucial variable in military strength; while for the Romans, as we have seen, it was the abundance or shortage of cash.

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose.

Once you realize what you really are, you cannot be stopped.

The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.

I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.

Pride is holding your head up high when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

Bryce Courtenay

It is better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

The true test of a man's worth is not what he achieves in life, but what he overcomes.

Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.

Gentle in what you do, Firm in how you do it

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.

That guy has muscles in places most people don't have places.

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear. Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

He is able who thinks he is able.

To keep the body in good health is a duty. . . otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.