Quotes About Strength

No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure

Never apologise, never explain.

This deadly body of mine can dance, too.

We are not all born heroes and athletes. At the same time it is elementary wisdom always to fear weaknesses, including one's own; the reactions of the weak, when touched off, can be horrible and sudden.

Pray together and you will stay together. Scientific prayer solves all problems.

A magnetized piece of iron will lift about twelve times its own weight. But if you demagnetize this same piece of iron, it will not lift even a feather.

Keep on keeping on until the day breaks and the shadows flee away.

A person is as strong as he thinks he is, and as valuable as he thinks he is.

His Holiness told us how he saw the Basilica of St. John Lateran falling, and how a poor beggar had rushed forward to support the falling church with his shoulder. Each of you, my brothers, is that poor beggar. No sword is placed upon your shoulders like a man being knighted, but the pillars of the church itself rest on your shoulders. And that is what we are now sent to do.

Her heart beat with the rattle of broken wings.

The forgiveness of the weak is the air you strong ones breath, David. Didn't you know? You don't see it but you felt it just then. They allow you to go on living.

Be careful," she said. "You can't fight a tiger." "Yes you can," he said. "You can if you are a tiger yourself.

La virilité est un fardeau qui renvoie constamment l' homme ordinaire à une vulnérabilité inavouable.

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.

I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.

You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I'll never recover. What Rissa's death did to the boy I was? You have the ability to do a thousand times worse to the man I've become.

Riley : Do you want to claw at me, kitty-cat? Come on. Mercy: Sorry, I don't beat defenseless puppies.

It takes nerve to walk down the street when you fall between the cracks.

Death must be fought with life, and that means courage and that means joy

He had no more control over his life than a dog on a chain, but caring for Lucy made him feel…well…strong.

He says you freed him, Thorgil said with a face like a thundercloud. I did. Wait a minute. How did you know what he said?... You're like Sigurd. You got dragon's blood in your mouth.

It means she's a wise woman… There's nothing wrong with her! Jack cried. Thorgil Olaf's Daugher can do whatever she likes. He accepted her. Why can't you? She fought the troll-bear by his side. She killed a young dragon. She tasted its blood by accident, just as Sigurd did. That's why she understands birds now. She drank from Mimir's Well. That's why she can make poetry now. Why can't you accept that?

She was obviously devastated by her loss. But not so devastated that she did not find the energy to utterly vanquish Diane.