Quotes About Strength

What have we to fear, we who believe?

Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered his strength. But the truth is that he was no less vulnerable than Cosette. He protected her and she sustained him. Thanks to him she could go forward into life, and thanks to her he could continue virtous. He was the child's support and she his mainstay. Sublime, unfathomable marvel of the balance of destiny!

C'est que l'amour est comme un arbre, il pousse de lui-même, jette profondément ses racines dans tout notre être, et continue souvent de verdoyer sur un cÅ"ur en ruines.   Et ce qu'il y a d'inexplicable, c'est que plus cette passion est aveugle, plus elle est tenace. Elle n'est jamais plus solide que lorsqu'elle n'a pas de raison en elle.  

L'homme a sur lui la chair, qui est tout à la fois son fardeau et sa tentation. Il la traîne et lui cède.

Her heart ached, but she took her resolution. It will be seen that Fantine possessed the stern courage of life.

Memories are our strength. When night attempts to return, we must light up the great dates, as we would light torches.

Ä°nsan içinde bulunduÄŸu umutsuz koÅŸullarda bazen bir zinciri bir saç teliyle koparabileceÄŸini san?r. (s. 55)

With grand and lofty natures, the revolts of the flesh and the senses when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and make it appear on the brow, just as rebellions among the soldiery force the captain to show himself.

He felt that to increase his knowledge was to strengthen his hatred. Under certain circumstances, instruction and enlightenment may serve as rallying points for evil.

Kata-kata keras dan pedas menunjukkan alasan yang lemah.

In this age devoted to completing the French Revolution and to beginning the Human Revolution, equality between the sexes being part of equality between men, a great woman was needed. Woman had to prove that she could have all our manly qualities without losing her angelic ones: that she could be strong without ceasing to be gentle: George Sand is that proof. . . . she bequeathes to us the right of woman which draws its proof from woman's genius.. . . Thus the Revolution is fulfilled.

and after all in this house what have we to fear? There is always someone with us who is stronger. The devil may visit us, but God lives here.

In all his trials he was sustained and at times even exalted by a secret strength in himself. The soul aids the body and at moments uplifts it. It is the only bird that can endure a cage.

In all his trials he felt encouraged and sometimes even upbourne by a secret force within. The soul helps the body, and at certain moments uplifts it. It is the only bird which sustains its cage.

People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their footsteps.

Aie dans les veines le doux lait de ta mère, et le généreux esprit de ton père ; sois bon, sois fort, sois honnête, sois juste ! Et reçois, dans le baiser de ta grand-mère, la bénédiction de ton grand-père.

Tabahlah saat menghadapi penderitaan besar, Sabarlah saat menghadapi penderitaan kecil, Dan kalau anda sudah melaksanakan dengan giat tugas anda sehari-hari, Pergilah tidur dengan damai. Tuhan selalu berjaga.

Knowing that she was beautiful, she felt convinced, though in an indistinct way, that she had a weapon. Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have their heroes; obscure heroes, who are, sometimes, grander than the heroes who win renown.

People who are crushed do not look behind them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them.

Jean Valjean, who was listening attentively, heard something like the sould of retreating footsteps. They are going away, he thought. I am alone. All at once he heard over his head a noise which appeared to him like a thunder-clap; it was a spadeful of earth falling on the coffin; a second spadeful fell, and one of the holes by which he breather was stopped; a third spadeful fell, and then a forth. There are somethings stronger than the the strongest man, and Jean Val Jean lost his senses.

the cold and bitter scorn of the passers-by penetrated her very flesh and soul like a north wind.

Kada si u najvecim mukama i kada ti se dusa grci od bola,kada se ne zna da li si ziv ili mrtav,ipak se tada za one koje volis uvek nadje neznosti u izobilju.Po tome se poznaju velike duse.Kad sve iscezne ostaje samo ljubav.

The devotion of one man had given strength and courage to all.