Quotes About Strength

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

It's hard to save the world when you can't save yourself,

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

It was by Anandamayi Ma: "Be anchored in fearlessness. What is worldly life but fear!

What feels best is how I no longer hurt.

It's not about surviving. It should be about love. When you know love...that's what makes this life worth it. When you live with it everyday. Wake up with it, hold on to it during the thunder and after a nightmare. When love is your refuge from the death that surrounds us all and when it fills you so tight that you can't express it.

The load was too heavy for her, but giving it to God and allowing Him to carry it for her seemed impossible. That would mean yielding her heart and accepting God's will. And she didn't know if she had the courage to do that.

God understands our fears and concerns. And when we bring those to Him in prayer, He exchanges them for His peace, even in the most difficult and trying times.

We have a choice to make when trouble comes. We can reach out to God and look to Him for strength and help, or we can doubt His love and purpose and allow our hearts to grow cold. It takes faith to believe that He can and will bring good out of those trials if we will only trust Him.

Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.

I tend to play strong characters and people just assume that I would want to play romantic comedies, which I would love to do, but there are other women that do it so great and they maybe couldn't do what I do, play the kind of characters that I play.

I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

You have put me in here a cub, but I will come out roaring like a lion, and I will make all hell howl!

It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

You died in the end, but you fought first.

Yes, he was a rock she could cling to. But he was also a rock she could smash herself to pieces against.

She still held back her tears, as if subjecting herself to some terrible endurance test.

Como marinheiros, todos temíamos o afogamento, mas nenhum de nós alguma vez borrara as calças quando uma tempestade arrancara o mastro e o cordame ou uma onda esmagara a amurada e limpara o convés. Era essa a diferença: o mar respeitava a nossa masculinidade. Os canhões não.

Esta era a diferença: o mar respeitava nossa masculinidade. Os canhões, não.

Sometimes it seems that men--yes, and even women too!--if they believe in a thing strongly enough, they get a strength or endurance that they wouldn't have believe possible.

Let us banish fear.

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.

In this great fiat of the little girl Mary, the strength and foundation of our life of contemplation is grounded, for it means absolute trust in God, trust which will not set us free from suffering but will set us free from anxiety, hesitation, and above all from the fear of suffering. Trust which makes us willing to be what God wants us to be, however great or however little that may prove. Trust which accepts God as illimitable Love.