Quotes About Strength

I bend, but I do not break.

In the clutch of circumstance, I have not winced or cried aloud; Under the bludgeoning of chance, my head is bloody, but unbowed.

We shall live to fight again, and to strike another blow.

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

Endure, and preserve yourselves for better things.

Every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentment.

We must endure what fortune sends.

People can bear anything.

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time.

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again.

The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.

The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can't be sure. When he can no longer throw his high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He just doesn't walk off the mound and weep.

All my life I've been competing-and competing to win. I came to realize that in this way, this cancer was the toughest competition I had faced yet. I made up my mind that I was going to lick it all the way. I not only wasn't going to let it kill me, I wasn't even going to let it put me on the shelf.

Tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope.

Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.

I have often been adrift, but I have always stayed afloat.

God helps those who persevere.

One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school, the little while I went, I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me, but I always got up.