Quotes About Strength

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

When the wind blows,the grass bends.

The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.

The wise never doubt. The Humane never worry. The brave never fear.

The Master said, I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue, would esteem nothing above it. He who hated what is not virtuous, would practice virtue in such a way that he would not allow anything that is not virtuous to approach his person. Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be insufficient. Should there possibly be any such case, I have not seen it.

Kebanggaan kita yang terbesar adalah bukang tidak pernah gagal, tetapi bangkit kembali setiap kali kita jatuh.

It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.

It is only when the cold season comes that we know the pine and cypress to be evergreens.

Student - It is not that I do not delight in your Way, Master, it is simply that my strength is insufficient. Confucius - Someone whose strength is genuinely insufficient collapses somewhere along the Way. As for you, you deliberately draw the line.

A wise man is never cheated, a virtuous man is never worried and a courageous man is never afraid.

A man whose strength gives out collapses along the course. In your case you set the limits beforehand.

Give me a strong back, over a soft heart.

She'd stood by that creed. No softness, because the world wasn't soft; lots of laughter, because if you were in on the joke, the joke couldn't be on you; And no wanting what you couldn't take, because the world never gave. Or so she'd thought.

Come on, Avery. Fresh tears stained her cheeks. Her voice shook. Wake up, damn it! She sobbed, rocking forward and back, her arms wrapping tightly around his big body. Don't you want to shout at me for disobeying you, you overbearing, domineering male? She squeezed her eyes shut and bit hard on her lip. He couldn't die. He was too stubborn, too alive, too vigorous. And she couldn't lose him. She loved him too much. I… am a… gentleman, she heard him gasp. I never shout at women.

Tears are nothing to be ashamed of at all. -Grandma Shaw

I watched as she stretched over the board to flick off a fallen leaf. Underneath her thin cotton shell, I saw how fragile the bones in her back were, far too sliver-prone, far too light to support a pair of wings.

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer." —ANTHONY TROLLOPE, The Bertrams But

Lo que eres grita tan fuerte que no oigo lo que me dices»;

He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.

Carry the fire.

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.

What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenhearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise.

Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.

What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?