Quotes About Strength

I do not mistrust the future; I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger.

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change.

Courage is a terribly important value. It means you don't run away when things are tough. It means you don't turn away from a friend when he or she is in trouble. It means standing up against the majority opinion.... There's a lot of people who won't wear it on their sleeve, or display it through some heroic act. But courage is having the strength to do what's honorable and decent.

We must recognize an unfortunate fact: In many regions of the world tonight, the reality is conflict, not peace. Enduring animosities and opposing interests remain. And thus, the cause of peace must be served by an America strong enough and sure enough to defend our interests and our ideals.

There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.

Out on Ocean Avenue in Flatbus, where I was a poor Black girl, living in someone else's apartment in an all-white neighborhood, where my family was seen as "the help". And at eight in the morning, on that street with all of its white faces staring down at me or not seeing me at all, I walked with my head high and made it to the bus stop without flinching. It was my armor, too.

He that is down can fall no lower.

Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

If you love me as I love you, No knife can cut our loves in two.

Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.

Hide thy tears--I do not bid thee not to shed them--'twere easier to stop the Euphrates at its source than one tear of a true and tender heart.

Who hasn't succumbed to a hopeless feeling more powerful than all the strength one might possibly muster, wondering how many first steps will have to be taken, how many actions performed and words spoken, how many labyrinths will have to be negotiated in order, finally, to reach the moment at which reality begins to happen.

igualaos, cúmplase el roble, cúmplase el leopardo entre dos robles,..

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

C. Hope Flinchbaugh

You think you have all the pain you can bear, but yours will be lessened as you bear mine, and mine will be lessened as I bear yours!

Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.

The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes.

When you look for a man- what you want to look for is a man with the heart of a poor boy and the mind of a conqueror.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

I was young and angry enough not to feel that, though this wasn't courage: young and angry is not the same as brave.

Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity.