Quotes About Strength

Time is always the enemy of opportunists and a friend to those who stand on the side of history. It exposes false strength and rewards true strength.

This absolute lack of objectivity might be said to resemble nothing so much as the lack of objectivity these same people had shown during Stalin's life, when they had been so supremely worshipful of his mind and strength of will, of his foresight and genius. Their hysterical worship of Stalin and their total and unconditional rejection of him sprang from the same soil.

Only his own fist possessed weight and reality.

Hitler was unable to conceive that his fist could not smash through everything.

Minns en sak, sa hans överordnade, du har varken far, mor, bröder eller systrar, partiet är det enda du har. Och så förstärktes denna egendomliga, tärande känsla: i sin tanklöshet och i sin lydnad fann han inte svaghet utan i stället en hotfull styrka.

The strength and good sense of the people, their morality, their true wealth—all this will live forever, no matter how hard fascism tries to destroy it.

As he spoke, Daagoo realized that in these two women, whom he once thought of as helpless and weak, he had rediscovered the inner strength that had deserted him the winter before. Now, somehow, he knew that he never would believe himself to be old and weak again. Never!

Both learned that from hardship, a side of people emerged that they had not known. The People had thought themselves to be strong, yet they had been weak. And the two old ones whom they thought to be the most helpless and useless had proven themselves to be strong.

Successful athletes know the power of having a strong core, no matter what the sport.

Veronica? Praise to Our Lady that you got

the most painful part of the beatings is the insult which they imply.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.

Be a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

He who despairs is wrong.

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.

There are things stronger than the strongest man...

But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.