Quotes About Strength

Your brain never stops developing and changing. It's been doing it from the time you were an embryo, and will keep doing it all your life. And this ability, perhaps, represents its greatest strength.

As a symbol of the new United States, Americans chose the eagle clutching a bundle of arrows. They knew that both the eagle and the arrows were symbols of the Iroquois League. Although one arrow is easily broken, no one can break six (or thirteen) at once. John

As a symbol of the new United States, Americans chose the eagle clutching a bundle of arrows. They knew that both the eagle and the arrows were symbols of the Iroquois League. Although one arrow is easily broken, no one can break six (or thirteen) at once.

However long or dark the night is, the dawn will always break. ~ African Proverb

Acknowledging our ignorance can give us the strength to conquer and extend our limit.

Family pulls together, mija, even though we sometimes disagree.

The warm strength of Brother Rip's hand on hers was like nothing she had ever felt—as if he had a divine touch.

Sometimes, when your world blows up, you discover sparkly bits among the debris.

We shall never surrender," Churchill had said.

I grow weary of barely surviving," Ivy said.

A man lives his life only when he is marching, i thought, when he keeps marching onwards at any price. When he stops marching onwards, he decays. The joy of life is the joy of the experience that comes from feeling one's own strength.

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. . . . It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. William Ernest Henley

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

She was stronger alone…

She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

The one claim I shall make for my own sex is that we love longest, when all hope is gone.

I am very strong. Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

faultless in spite of all her faults...

Time did not compose her.

You mean to frighten me, Mr Darcy, by coming in all this state to hear me? But I will not be alarmed though your sister does play so well. There is a stubbornness about me that can never bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

No, indeed, I shall grant you nothing. I always take the part of my own sex. I do indeed. I give you notice-- You will find me a formidable antagonist on that point. I always stand up for women.

Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing -- fortifying and bracing -- seemingly just as was wanted -- sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.