Quotes About Strength

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.

If you allow momentary defeats to find shelter in your heart, you are allowing your most beautiful dreams to become homeless.

One needs a light spirit to bear a heavy fate.

What do I want to be when I grow up? Happy. I want to be happy. And useful, loved, loving, healthy, wise, free, strong.

Even if you lose a ray or two of your star, keep shining!

Spirit can walk, spirit can swim, spirit can climb, spirit can crawl. There is no terrain you cannot overcome.

The good seaman is known in bad weather.

All bicycles weigh fifty pounds. A thirty-pound bicycle needs a twenty-pound lock. A forty-pound bicycle needs a ten-pound lock. A fifty-pound bicycle doesn't need a lock.

Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking. It must be an indissoluble tie.

A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes.

A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand.

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.

Changes in life are like extra strength Gold Bond Medicated Powder. The burning means it's working.

I tell you... that girl is a young woman of remarkable strength of character... a girl of firmness and the courage of her convictions... she carried a box of candy home the other day without opening it.

Mothers are those wonderful people who can get up in the morning before the smell of coffee.

The captain had been telling how, in one of his Arctic voyages, it was so cold that the mate's shadow froze fast to the deck and had to be ripped loose by main strength. And even then he got only about two-thirds of it back.

Your soul is a trooper. If you find you're stronger than you thought, don't waste a moment being surprised by it — be motivated, and stronger, and start the race!

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

You can't count the bad things that happen. They don't count against life. They are life. Only count the good things. Let every blessing strengthen you.

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word.

Let courage break through the cracks in your fear.

A brave arm makes a short sword long enough.

Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together.