Quotes About Strength

His intellect might be a weapon, his worldliness his shield.

She felt like that worst thing—a victim.

Kami tak suka mengeluh. Bukan karena mengeluh itu sebuah kelemahan, tapi karena kami telah mendidik diri kami untuk tak membiarkan hidup memengaruhi kami, atau kemampuan kami untuk berfungsi di dalamnya.

But she was such a fighter. She refused to mope and lose her dignity. And she did this by returning to what she knew best. By getting better at it.

What the hell do doctors know about exercise? Most of them know zero. You gotta push elderly people to failure like anybody else. Then the body responds.

That is the beautiful part about weights: even if you are 100 years old, you can lift something. Maybe it's only a half a pound or a pound or two pounds. It will still do something.

Exercise is king and nutrition is queen: together, you have a kingdom.

Don't talk age! Age has nothing to do with it. One of my guys who started out at my gym is 87 now, and he still does ten bench-press reps with a hundred-pound dumbbell in each hand. He's training to set a leg-pressing record. I put things in the guy's brain way back when, and now he'll never get away from it.

Whatever you can handle, it's up to you. Pick something where you are going to do it to failure--in other words, where you can hardly do it. That's the key. So many people will just take five pound weights and do something 10 times. What are they getting out of it? Nothing! Say you are going to build up your bank account. If you put in a penny a day, it's going take a long while. It's the same with exercise--the more you put into it the more you take out.

Stay in shape. And remember, daily exercise is a must. Plan for it, and do it. The rewards will be well worth it.

You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry

You be surprised what a person got in them to do when the time come.

They's a time for sitting still and praying the wind blow over you, and they's a time to rise up and face the storm.

I am the rock in your garden, Emily, and you are the bloom in mine. Count on me.

The women's way was more effective. They might be ignored, abused, or dominated, but in the end the women were more practical, keeping their eye on whatever prize was within their grasp.

I'm known for yokin jacks and beatin em wit smokin gats, Leavin token blacks with broken backs and open caps.

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.

I felt alternately rubbery and empty, like sometimes I was landing on the Swiss cheese, sometimes on the holes.

Things that matter come in sets of twos. Two eyes, two ears. Two kisses on the cheeks, one on each. Two lungs. Two arms. Two legs. I would not be completely blind if I lost one eye... But because we have one heart, there is no second one that can serve as a reserve when the first is stricken by sorrow.

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?

Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything