Quotes About Strength

You have to know that bigots are unwittingly handing you an edge. By thinking you're lesser than they are, they underestimate you. Lean on that. Learn to use it, and you'll get the upper hand.

I understood that where Michael Mompellion had been broken by our shared ordeal, in equal measure I had been tempered and made strong.

These nineteenth-century horses were stronger and healthier, capable of massive endurance as well as thrilling speed. They ran four miles, you know—heats—up to three times in a single day. They were tough.

Geraldine Brooks

Why would I marry? I'm not made to be any man's chattel. I have my work, which I love. I have my home—it is not much, I grant, yet sufficient for my shelter. But more than these, I have something very few women can claim: my freedom. I will not lightly surrender it.

Do not mind my rough old tongue. I have grown too bent with age for any further bowing.

The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads. And yet I do not think

I've inherited a core belief, to wit: don't rely on some other sod for your emotional sustenance. Find something absorbing to do—something so absorbing that you don't have time to dwell on the woe-is-me stuff.

What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.

Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!

Why wouldst thou rude on me they wring-world right foot rock?

Children want to be strong, secure, and happy. Their fantasies will tell us what they feel they need to attain that, if we pay attention. But we need to look beyond our adult expectations and interpretations and see them through our children's eyes. First, we need to begin disentangling the fears and preconceptions that have prevented us from doing so.

No, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee

Het was verschrikkelijk, zeker, maar er was al zoveel verschrikkelijks in mijn leven gebeurd dat ik - hoe, dat zoude wel altijd een raadsel blijven - had overleefd en doorstaan... Misschien kon dit er nog net bij...

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive.

Don't let anyone tell you you aren't good enough. You are good enough; You are too good. Love your family with all your heart and listen to it.

Yes, he was an old man but, gosh, those muscled limbs of his, the strength in them. She remembered how vast he had seemed, nude in the little cottage bedroom, like a giant folded up and tucked into a shoebox.

Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.

It is not just saying prayers that gets results, but it is spending time with the Father, learning His wisdom, drawing on His strength, being filled with His quietness, and basking in His love that bring results to our prayers. Praise the Lord!

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

Anger without power is folly.