Quotes About Strength

What is stronger, fear or hope?

Hope that is the only antidote to fear.

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.

Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.

My house is burned, but I can see the sky.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Every year the media comes up with something to describe my race The first year it was "the comeback." Then it was the "the confirmation." I don't know what it was last year. This year, for me, it's "the year of the team." I can't say how I compare to the rider I was in 1999 or 2000 or 2001, but this team is much stronger than it has ever been. It has made it easier for me.

America needs to relearn a lost discipline, self-confident relentlessness...

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.

Him I would call the powerful one who controls the storms of his mind.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend: such nails are then thrown into the dust or into the furnace.

I am grieved at your sorrow, although it will hereafter be a source of joy unto you. The purest water runs from the hardest rock.

We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

Negroes Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day They change their minds! Wind In the cotton fields, Gentle breeze: Beware the hour It uproots trees!

I've been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'-- But I don't care! I'm still here!

Life dosent frighten me at all.

Down Where I Am Too many years Beatin' at the door-- I done beat my Both fists sore. Too many years Tryin' to get up there-- Done broke my ankles down, Got nowhere. Too many years Climbin' that hill, 'Bout out of breath. I got my fill. I'm gonna plant my feet On solid ground. If you want to see me, Come down.

I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh and I eat well, and I grow strong. Tomorrow I'll sit in the table when company comes, nobody will dare say to me "eat in the kitchen" then. Besides they'll see how beautiful I am and be ashamed.

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.

You don't get to decide," she said, "where I go, or when." "I know." His voice was ragged. "I've always known that about you. I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.

What don't kill me... Had better start running!

Pain is only what you allow it to be