Quotes About Strength

When I loved myself enough, I no longer needed things or people to make me feel safe.

I don't have the power to change anyone except myself, and even then I rely on God's strength.

You didn't change me. You simply showed me the way to be. So thank you, Neva Shilling, for living your faith in the face of hardship. You are a true inspiration.

Every season has its heartaches, but you done learned the most 'portant lesson, an' that's that God gits you through. No matter what comes along—when you leans on Him, He gits you through.

Even warriors get weary when the battle doesn't end.

Being stubborn isn't a bad thing. Stubbornness could be defined as determination on steroids. As long as it's aimed in a God-honoring direction, being stubborn can be a gift because it gives you stick-to-itiveness.

learn to lean on God. If 'n you don't, you's gonna come across a day when yo' strength ain't enough. An' you'll just go all to pieces. But if you got God's strength, chil', then you'll always have the strength you need, no matter how hard thangs git.

Because, Mom, I'm really proud of you for finally standing up for yourself and ending things with Daddy.

It had been awful, but I hadn't quit. I had persisted. In battle I had won.

If I started letting myself feel afraid I would never be able to stop.

After that it was easy. It was the most impossible thing I'd ever done, but it was also easy. I held on to Jamie, and I kept moving forward.

Keep going," Susan said. "The only way out of this is straight through.

I shrugged. "There's a war on." "Yes," she said, "and you're winning it.

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

crippled. He'd been better as soon as his hooves were trimmed.

My own emotions were such a jumble. I'd known the right thing to do, and I'd done it....I'd felt afraid, but I hadn't come undone. My foot would never be all the way right, but I could walk and climb and run. My feelings might never be all the way right either, but they were healed enough.

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Your courage, your cheerfulness, your resolution'—she was saying it wrong. I scowled—'will bring you victory, my dear.

I was," I said. "It didn't matter." Fear and what you did with it were two separate things.

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

But at the same time, I felt different. There was a Before Dunkirk version of me and an After Dunkirk version. The After Dunkirk version was stronger, less afraid.

Just who am I?" the rough baritone asked in the infuriatingly amused tone one might use with a temperamental child. You're a monster, she wanted to say. A giant—huge and thickly muscled and terrifying. But she flung back her answer like her papa's own daughter. "You're the rebel bastard Glen Lyon.