Quotes About Strength

for it has always been law that the weaker should be subject to the stronger.

and when he did come they had no walls to stop him)

Once you come forward in the role of liberators, you will find that your strength in the war is enormously increased. -p201

since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

The Strong do what they Can, and the Weak Suffer what they Must.

The coast populations now began to apply themselves more closely to the acquisition of wealth, and their life became more settled; some even began to build themselves walls on the strength of their newly acquired riches. For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.

Break my heart? Is that what you just said? I have news for you; you didn't break my heart. My heart's fine. My heart's in the best shape of its life. You know what you did to me? You took an AK-47 and blew my soul open.

Don't waste your time with fear.. Fear won't keep you safe from being hurt.

I hate that word, CAN'T. I wish it had never been dreamed up, spoken, or defined. I wish the concept of CAN'T could be eradicated not only from language, but more importantly from the psyche of a girl who I know is filled with so much CAN it seeps out of her pores and scents the air.

She kept too much in herself. Her life was such that she had to keep too much in herself. My wisdom came too late. She is a child of her age, of depression, of war, of fear. Let her be. So, all that is in her will not bloom, but in how many does it? There is still enough left to live by. Only help her to know, help make it so there is cause for her to know that she is more than this dress on the ironing board, helpless before the iron.

The issue isn't--nor should it ever be--how weak our child is, but rather how strong our God is.

It was in God's grace that Paul figured out how to feel secure, significant, and strong. His personal weaknesses and points of vulnerability weren't removed, but he had the necessary grace to face them and accept them.

By Allah! Never have I seen the discipline I've seen this day, and in men who have come from here, there and everywhere . . . No, not among the noble Persians, nor the Byzantines with their braided locks!

They were afraid of dieing, but they were even more afraid to show it.

Sometimes the bravest thing in the world was to sit through the night and feel the cold in your bones.

In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his belly, slow of foot but always plodding along, always there when you needed him, a believer in the virtues of simplicity and directness and hard labor.

The greater a man's fear, the greater his potential courage

The greater a man's fear, the greater his potential courage.

They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried. In

They were afraid of dying but they were even more afraid to show it.

It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards.

Courage was not always a matter of yes or no. Sometimes it came in degrees, like the cold; sometimes you were very brave up to a point and then beyond that point you were not so brave.

Sometimes the bravest thing on Earth was to sit through the night and feel the cold in your bones.