Quotes About Strength

Clay Susan Griffith

When I have my interview with God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics that matter in measuring my life.

In sacrificing for something worthwhile, you deeply strengthen your commitment to it.

In California she might have been called fat. But that was not a word Kate would have used to describe her. She had what Hawaiians called Mana. It meant spiritual power, a kind of inner strength people were drawn to.

Survive everything. And do it with style.

If a woman's going into battle, she's got to have the proper footwear.

Instead of shutting ourselves off in fear, becoming victims—part of the problem—we became a solution.

Survive everything. And do it with style. ~ Cleo Coyle

And I think he actually believes the best way to do it is to gain a dictatorship over the Solar System. That ambition rules everything in his life. It has hardened him and strengthened him. He will crush ruthlessly, without a single qualm, anything that stands in his path. That's why we'll have a fight on our hands.

Not knowing how mant troops Jenkins truly had, Johnson refused to surrender unless forced to do so by an exhibition of your boasted strength. Jenkins fought for more than five hours before pulling back.

you must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.

Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness, he was all she had dreamed of. And if she would only free him he would service her - oh yes - until her pleasure reached that threshold that, like all thresholds, was a place where the strong grew stronger, and the weak perished. Pleasure was pain there, and vice versa. And he knew it well enough to call it home.

A monster lies in wait in me, A stew of wounds and misery, But fiercer still in life and limb, The me that lies in wait in him.

I'm not afraid, he said. What's the use of fear? You can't buy it or sell it, you can't make love to it. You can't even wear it if they strip off your shirt and you're cold.

I swear, the bigger the bully, the smaller the dick.

Sin lágrimas, por favor. Es un desperdicio de buen sufrimiento.

I used to tell myself that," he said. "Day in, day out. Used to try and dream the agonies away. But you can't. Take it from me. You can't. They have to be endured.

Lori had broken that spell of despair, coming to him not begging but demanding he forgive himself.

He started down the slope towards it, dressed in the blood of his enemy.

She's got powers," said de Bono, taking off his spectacles and surveying the terrain ahead. "Most women have, of course.

Be strong, little mother," she said to Melissa. "I know you can be." "Yes?" Melissa said a little doubtfully.

No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.

I know many a strong man undone by marriage.

He was mystery, he was darkness, he was all she had dreamed of. And if she would only free him he would service her -oh yes- until her pleasure reached that thereshold that, like all theresholds, was a place where the strong grew stronger, and the weak perished.