Quotes About Strength

the most powerful force in human nature is the spiritual-power technique taught in the Bible . . . faith in God, faith in other people, faith in yourself.

Gratitude is a muscle, not a feeling,

Confidence is never about you alone; rich confidence also includes believing in the power of we. Total confidence requires a belief in yourself, other people in your life, and in something greater than yourself. When you possess all three of these beliefs, you'll have a balanced confidence—something that can sustain you through uncertainties and difficulties.

You can't just change your feelings, but you can change your daily habits to strengthen your sense of gratitude, which will then produce feelings of gratefulness that will reinvigorate you.

When your faith is strong, you've got an extra tank of rocket fuel for those times when the road is long and there are no refill stations in sight.

like a squirrel hoarding chestnuts, we should store up our moments of happiness and triumph so that in a crisis we can draw upon these memories for help and inspiration.

You tell 'em, love. That's what we do to the boys who kick us outta the nest.

But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded. 2 Chronicles 15:7

An unguarded strength is a double weakness.

Here in the realm of books she's self-assured. She has some of the control she doesn't have anywhere else.

There's no room inside for feeling any worse

needs locks when you have a pair of beefcake warlocks to guard your secret chamber of evil?

sometimes victory doesn't go to the strongest or swiftest. Sometimes it goes to a desperate dead man with deep pockets.

I wasn't an object. I was Matthew Fucking Richter

Intelligence fails because it is human, no stronger than the power of one mind to understand another. (480)

The Vietnamese have a saying that you can't use a basket to cover a lion or an elephant.

Shoulder to shoulder they stood in a circle of woe, and woe was all their assailants found to greet them.

Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water.

An empire long united, must divide; an empire long divided, must unite. Thus it has ever been, and thus it will always be.

Habit was stronger than emotion.

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

ground. In 1917, about forty-five

Hazel missed trees. She wanted just one sturdy elm with a branch strong enough to hold a swing. And she didn't want to live in a hole in the ground, with the snakes and tarantulas, and sleeping so near to the stink of burning cow manure.

Sometimes the wind along the Pacific shore blows so hard it steals your breath before you can inhale it.