Quotes About Strength

Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.

In the weak, lack of strength to defend oneself passes over into complaining. This can be observed in children when they are mistreated by bigger children; but the best always stay obstinately and defiantly silent.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.

In uplifting, get underneath.

Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character.

If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood.

every time you lose, you die a little, inside. Not all your organs...maybe just your liver.

live with power and energy that undeniably transcends their natural capacities and with an intensity of commitment that far exceeds anything they have previously demonstrated in their lives

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

He was strong and unforgiving, a bully, and I saw that he would be that way for the rest of his life; and for this same reason I suspected that he would always be successful in whatever he did, and I despised and feared him for that.

I learned… to fear God, and to take my own part.

Americans are generous and strong and decent, not because we believe in ourselves, but because we hold beliefs beyond ourselves.

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.

TOPSY: My power is in my . . . EVERYBODY: madness! TOPSY: And my colored contradictions

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.