Quotes About Strength

I decided to ride the lightning instead of extinguishing the light of life that had once shown out of my eyes.

As Winston Churchill said, 'Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts

But, the thing is that when you are a survivor, which fine, I reluctantly agree that I am—and who over 40 isn't?—when you are a survivor, in order to be a really good one, you have to keep getting in trouble to show off your gift.

Take your broken heart and make it to the heart.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

Screw beauty, it's superficial anyway, and my other attributes matter way more than my appearance.

I knew my name. So I let him know I knew it. 'Yeah,' I said in a voice very like mine. Mine but hollow, mine but it didn't matter because my stomach had swung into action.

For Billie and Barack, who make my world a better place. Despite the obstacles you've had to overcome--whether posed by my antics or the uber-unfortunate antics of the Tea Partiers and the rest of their distressing ilk--long may you wave.

If what doesn't kill you makes you—well, what doesn't kill you makes you not dead but if what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, then I should be able to lift Cedars-Sinai Hospital and glow in the dark. So I say to myself at this point—BRING IT ON!!!

And her sponsor said, "God never gives us any more than we can handle, so if He gives you a lot to handle, take it as a compliment. It's because He believes that you can handle a lot." It was such a powerful thought, I wanted to brand it into my brain.

There is no room for demons when you are self-possessed.

You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.

I'm not a damsel and there is no distress

He's going macho again," Dev says, totally nonchalantly, while he unlocks the door. He's always going macho," Is adds. "It must be the wolf thing." I am not going macho. I am always macho," Nick says.

I promise you. You will survive this. Feel my hand. It is yours now, my queen. I promise you. I am yours.

You will be a great queen when you come back, you know. And someday you'll love me the way you love your wolf.

you have to face your fear.

no one can ever save someone else, you know? We can only save ourselves. You know that, don't you?

we all need a little bit of rescuing from time to time. It doesn't make us weak.

I used to be embarrassed by my mom, but now I know what she is—she's a hero.

And this time Zara White," he says, " this time it is my turn to rescue you." - Astley

Outside, a birch tree bends from the weight of the snow. it'll spring back up once the snow melts, back to its normal, upright self. could that happen to me ?

Who am I really? Am I still the same person if I'm not even technically a person anymore? Does being stronger make me different? Will it?

Fear makes us stronger, puts us on our toes. We've got to embrace it.