Quotes About Strength

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.

If we would keep filling our minds with the picture of happy things ahead, many worries and anxieties, and perhaps ill health, would naturally melt away.... Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.

You'll break the worry habit the day you decide you can meet and master the worse that can happen to you.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can-and surely will at times-fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.

If you want to see the sun shine, you have to weather the storm.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

Anything other than death is a minor injury.

Other Definitions of Adversity Adversity is the touchstone of virtue.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down.

If we survive danger, it steels our courage more than anything else.

The virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in mortals is the heroical virtue.

Age 41. — I am forty-one years of age, and I feel myself begin to change, and to lose my health, natural spirits and strength.

William H. Thomes

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Do you really think... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment... there is no weakness in that.

The sword is brother to the olive wreath.

You can shake your head but don't break your neck.

Feet have no roots; everyone can fall.

A woman is like mahogany — the older she is, the better she is.

They are little to be feared whose tongues are their swords.

Addiction is an anchor that won't break out.