Quotes About Strength

preparation, knowledge, and discipline can deal with any form of danger; that danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.

Nails that stuck out often were hammered back into place.

but cranes can

Abuse was the weapon of the coward, after all, and those who applied it knew the fact as well as those who had to accept it.

Courage, though, he'd once been told, was being the only one who knew how terrified you were.

Ryan was a tough, formidable son of a bitch who met things head-on when he had to. That's his weakness, Wellington told himself. He prefers to meet things head-on. He lacks subtlety. It was a common failing of the honest, and a grievous weakness in a political environment.

It's okay to be scared. I was scared all the time. The important part is to know that you're going to do it.

As a result, no nation-state today dared even to contemplate an attack on America.

If ever I have the time, I'm going to write a book about beauty and pain. They're so alike in so many ways: neither of them really exist, but both of them are strong enough to override the strongest human mind and turn wisest and bravest of us all into clowns. Someone who can command beauty and pain – well, they'd have all the bases covered, as we say where I come from.

Creative confidence is like a muscle—it can be strengthened and nurtured through effort and experience.

She felt strong and blissfully empty gliding through the crisp November air, enjoying the intermittent warmth of the sun as it filtered down through the overhanging trees, which were mostly stripped of their foliage. It was that trashy, post-Halloween part of the fall, yellow and orange leaves littering the ground

Doesn't settle for less than she deserves, or apologize unless it's absolutely necessary.

After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness after another?

New Orleanians knew how to turn deprivation into an asset; they had the best gallows humor going, they danced at funerals, they insisted on prevailing.

When you are called to lead, the last thing you want to do is vacillate, show fear, display weakness and indecisiveness, or fail to act.

Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.

He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Courage is where you find it. Bravery that comes from a bottle-- or from book or from a sermon-- lacks the full strength and purity of bravery that comes straight from the heart.

Water- the ace of elements. Water dives from the clouds without parachute, wings or safety net. Water runs over the steepest precipice and blinks not a lash. Water is buried and rises again; water walks on fire and fire gets the blisters.

The rougher the world gets around me, the sweeter I seem to myself.

Women are tough and rather coarse. They were built for the raw, crude work of bearing children. You'd be amazed at what they can do when they divert that baby-hatching energy into some other enterprise.

We entertain the immortals in order that they might be persuaded to help us recover the strength and unity stolen from us by death.

Was she simply too shallow to suffer indefinitely, or was she too wise to become attached to her suffering, too feisty to permit it to rule her life? She voted for wise and feisty, and walked on, kicking leaves.