Quotes About Strength

The thing I want you to understand," Ayn was saying, "is that no matter how hard the battle, it can be won. You can break through.

When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished.

High-self-esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quicker to pick themselves up again.

If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or--and the outward semblance is the same--crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more. The latter is perhaps the truest theory.

Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or--and the outward semblance is the same--crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.

Wondrous strength and generosity of a woman's heart! She will not speak!

With Heaven above and Faith below, I will yet stand firm against the Devil!

Es war der letzte Ausdruck der Kleinmütigkeit einer gebrochenen Seele. Ihm fehlte die Energie, nach dem besseren Schicksal zu greifen, das in seiner Reichweite schien. Er wiederholte das Wort. Allein Hester! Du wirst nicht allein gehen! flüsterte sie leise zur Antwort. Damit war alles gesagt.

Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!

Triste momento quello in cui si cade; ma anche questa sciagura porta con sé, come ogni altro dolore umano, il suo conforto, se si sappia trarre il miglior partito dal malanno.

She could no longer borrow from the future to help her through the present grief.

Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers--stern and wild ones--and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.

Heaven would show mercy," rejoined Hester, "hadst thou but the strength to take advantage of it.

But never had their youthful beauty seemed so pure and high, as when its glow was chastened by adversity.

The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers - stern and wild ones - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.

Men of his strength of purpose, and customary sagacity, if they chance to adopt a mistaken opinion in practical matters, so wedge it and fasten it among things known to be true, that to wrench it out of their minds is hardly less difficult than pulling up an oak.

Wouldst thou, then, have preferred the condition of a weak woman, exposed to all evil and capable of none?

that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

On Andrew Jackson: His native strength compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reach; and the more cunning the individual might be, it served only to make him a sharper tool.

WWith Heaven above and Faith below, I will yet stand firm against the Devil!

there was something of the women molded into the great, stalwart frame of Hollingsworth; nor was he ashamed of it; as men often are of what is best in them

Miserable!" exclaimed Rappaccini. "What mean you, foolish girl? Dost thou deem it misery to be endowed with marvellous gifts against which no power nor strength could avail an enemy—misery, to be able to quell the mightiest with a breath—misery, to be as terrible as thou art beautiful? Wouldst thou, then, have preferred the condition of a weak woman, exposed to all evil and capable of none?