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Quotes About Strength

This is how I want you: larger and smaller stronger and weaker taller and trembling more, more out of breath that I more burning more penetrating bolder bossier more yielding more frightened narrower and more relentless than you are more than I.
~ Helene Cixous
Power belongs to the smallest and to the dead.
~ Helene Cixous
The only book that is worth writing is the one we don't have the courage or strength to write.
~ Helene Cixous
I will always be there, I will say to you, the next time. Even after the door. It's neither a gift nor a promise. It's a natural phenomenon. As durable but no more so than a mountain. You can climb on me for millions of years. I am stable, etched by ravines, immobile, torn and flooded by torrential springs.
~ Helene Cixous
And I want to become a woman I can love. I want to meet women who love themselves, who are alive, who are not debased, overshadowed, wiped out.
~ Helene Cixous
a thing isn't much good if it can't stand being made fun of.
~ H. Beam Piper
There is no evil. 30. There is no absence of life, substance, or intelligence anywhere. 31. Pain, sickness, poverty, old age, and death cannot master me, for they are not real. 32. There is nothing in all the universe for me to fear, for greater is He that is within me than he that is in the world.
~ H. Emilie Cady
The words God is my defense and deliverance held in the silence until they become part of your very being, will deliver you out of the hands and the arguments of the keenest lawyer in the world.
~ H. Emilie Cady
Hitherto we have believed that we were helped and comforted by others, that we received joy from outside circumstances and surroundings; but it is not so. All joy and strength and good spring up from a fountain within one's own being; and if we only knew this truth we should know that, because God in us is the fountain out of which springs all our good, nothing that anyone does or says, or fails to do or say, can take away our joy and good.
~ H. Emilie Cady
Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
~ H. G. Bohn
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
~ H. G. Wells
Strength is the outcome of need.
~ H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
Bovril . . . Prevents that sinking feeling.
~ H. H. Harris
Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.
~ H. Jackson Brown
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
~ H. Jackson Brown (Jr.)
Pray not for things, but for wisdom and courage.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Never be ashamed of honest tears.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Don't pray only for things; pray also for wisdom and courage. And never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Be tough minded but tenderhearted.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Life is slippery. We all need a loving hand to hold onto.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
The 3 most powerful resources you have available to you : love, prayer and forgiveness.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The fractal dimension of a metal's surface, for example, often provides information that corresponds to the metal's strength.
~ James Gleick
believed, as deeply as he believed anything, that mathematics should be something all by itself. With self-containment came clarity. And clarity, too, went hand in hand with the rigor of the axiomatic method. Every serious mathematician understands that rigor is the defining strength of the discipline, the steel skeleton without which all would collapse. Rigor is what allows mathematicians to pick up a line of thought that extends over centuries and continue it, with a firm guarantee.
~ James Gleick