Quotes About Strength

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

I haven't got time for the pain.

Self-compassoin is a skill that anyone can (and should!) learn. Practicing it increases emotional strength and resilience, allowing a person to bounce back from difficult experiences and to overcome self-criticism.

Just as a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, a group is only as strong as its weakest member.

The only person I ever wanted to meet was Muhammad Ali. And of all the people I've ever met, he's the one who most impressed me. It's tough to listen to him. You gotta have patience. But you see how strong his mind is. Even now, he's one of the most intelligent people on the planet.

Because there is no nation so powerful it cannot be wounded, nor a people so small they cannot offer mighty comfort.

marked Never write with pencil, m'ija. It is for those who would erase. Make your mark proud and open, Brave, beauty folded into its imperfection, Like a piece of turquoise marked. Never write with pencil, m'ija. Write with ink or mud, or berries grown in gardens never owned, or, sometimes, if necessary, blood.

the power of the people is so much stronger than the people in power.

Great leaders have an air of confidence," he replied. "Subordinates need to look up to somebody who is still standing strong, like an oak, regardless of events around them.

Always stand up for what you believe in. Always defend yourself and your beliefs.

I stared in the mirror. Love gone bad showed me a Gorgon. I stared at a dragon. Fire spewed from the mouth of a mountain. And here you come with a shield for a heart and a sword for a tongue and your girls, your girls. Wasn't I beautiful Wasn't I fragrant and young? Look at me now.

They were ants saying, "Hey can we help you hold up this huge building that's toppling onto you?

But I found steel beneath his soft-spoken manner. I could not break him. Despite his struggles with the tasks I set him, he lived with everything of gentleness and grace.

It was then I truly realised the whale is no more a fish than I am. So much blood. This was not like the fish on the quay, fresh caught, lying flipping and flopping, death on a simmer. This was a fierce, boiling death. She died thrashing blindly in a slick of gore, full of pain and fury, gnashing her jaws, beating her tail, spewing lumps of slime and half-digested fish that fell stinking about us. It was vile. So much strength dies slowly.

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

Because nobody goes though life without a scar.

And who did she have? The thought caught her up short, but then she smiled, remembering the preacher's words. She had the Lord. He was her foundation, and that was enough.

I want to urge you to consider your own limitations not as obstacles but as opportunities for God to show his limitless power and unlimited love.

You think I'll succumb after a ten second kiss?" The man had an ego of an elephant. She measured the knowing curve of his smile, the infuriating glint in his eyes and knew she could stand anything for ten seconds. All she had to do was clamp her jaw and she'd win. Victory was at hand. "Okay, Masterson. You're on.

presentation, she looked drawn, as old as the limestone hills behind her property. Her facial skin was marbled, hair greying at the roots. She had grown frail, as though she might disintegrate at the first touch; she was a desiccated, vulnerable shadow of her former self and it was hard to

She had as much use for a baby as a lion has for fins.

There's only one thing worth loving, my girl. Freedom. Always I have loved my freedom

Now that she'd found her Wild Mustang