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Quotes About Strength

Without resistance you can do nothing.
~ Jean Cocteau
LE SPHINX - Vous avez réponse à tout. Hélas ! car vous l'avouerai-je, Å'dipe, j'ai une faiblesse : les faibles me plaisent et j'eusse aimé vous prendre en défaut.
~ Jean Cocteau
War and death can silence the strongest of men.
~ Unknown
You should work extra hard to be your best selves. True evil has a hard time operating in the face of strenuous manifestations of good. Especially if you act right away. The longer you let evil hang around and get a grip on you, the harder it is to get rid of it.
~ Jean Ferris
Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
My heart has been purified in the crucible of adversity.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
A strong man sails by ash breeze!
~ Unknown
No, Nezzie. No medicine can make him well,' she replied in a firm voice that was tinged with sorrow.
~ Jean M. Auel
Hacía falta una fortaleza diferente para persuadir en vez de obligar. Talut se ganaba el respeto respetando a los demás.
~ Jean M. Auel
Once I got over feeling sick in the morning, I've been feeling good," Levela said. "Vigorous and strong. Although, lately, I get tired easily. I want to sleep late and take naps in the day, and sometimes if I stand for a long time, my back hurts." "Sounds about right, wouldn't you say," Velima said, smiling at her daughter. "Just the way you are supposed to feel.
~ Jean M. Auel
that which is subtle can be more powerful.
~ Jean M. Auel
Then, slowly, it filled her. An urge, like none she had ever known, rose out of her depths, grew in her throat, and burst from her mouth in a primal scream of victory. She did it! At that moment, in a lonely valley in the middle of a vast continent, somewhere near the undefined boundary of the desolate northern loess steppes and the wetter continental steppes to the south, a young woman stood with a bone club in her hand—and felt powerful. She could survive. She would survive.
~ Jean M. Auel
When such single minded strength of will and purpose is directed to reach its goal, no boundary can resist.
~ Jean M. Auel
as dangerous as they are, I always hate to kill a cave lion if I don't have to. They are so beautiful, so lithe and graceful in the way they move. Cave lions don't have much to be afraid of. Their strength gives them confidence.
~ Jean M. Auel
The test is not just something hard to do, the test is knowing you can do it.
~ Jean M. Auel
I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.
~ Jean Rhys
have spunks and do battle for yourself
~ Jean Rhys
Get up, girl, and dress yourself. Woman must have spunks to live in this wicked world. Christophine to Antoinette
~ Jean Rhys
Just you touch me once. You'll soon see if I'm a damn coward like you are.
~ Jean Rhys
Say die and I will die. Say die and watch me die.
~ Jean Rhys
When trouble comes, close ranks
~ Jean Rhys
That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.
~ Unknown
Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.
~ Jeanette Winterson
As for myself, I am splintered by great waves. I am coloured glass from a church window long since shattered. I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.
~ Jeanette Winterson