Quotes About Strength

I believe in training alone—it develops better focus, reduces distraction and is good for the soul.

Nothing built by man has ever improved on the ancient classic fingertip pushup

The old-time strongmen and physical culturalists used to understand that squats worked the entire thigh—the hamstrings as well as the quads, and as a result most of them only focused on squatting motions for the legs.

Your fingers want to be strong. They weren't designed to tap at a keyboard or text bulls*** on a stupid cell phone. They were meant to be dangerous weapons on the hands of a caveman!

Being able to flip up against a wall and start doing handstand pushups is cool.

God likes his women with a firm will that aligns with his will. Strong, courageous women who get in line with the will of God are destined to change their corner of the world.

In the Bible, nearly each time the virtue of courage appears (about twenty-five times), it is often in conjunction with the words strong or strength. The two are intertwined throughout the Bible and throughout society, so much so that the word courage in sign language is two clenched fists.

Absorb blows with equanimity. That's what anthropologist David Gilmore says is at the heart of being male, and man, does that take courage. It means we defend others without giving into hatred, disdain, or contempt. And it means that we defend our own God-given value and importance without succumbing to an eye-for-an-eye or tooth-for-a-tooth. We don't seek revenge even when we easily can.

fear and shame don't own him.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. Ralph Waldo Emerson

niceness stems from neutrality and weakness

Roman poet Ovid wrote: "Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you.

Wherever you feel the most insecure and fearful is probably where you're being the most passive.

God loves a spirited woman who does more than sit with her hands folded as the world crumbles.

Patience is drawing on underlying forces; it is powerfully positive, though to a natural view it looks like just sitting it out. How would I persist against positive eroding forces if I were not drawing on invisible forces? And patience has a positive tonic effect on others; because of the presence of the patient person, they revive and go on, as if he were the gyroscope of the ship providing a stable ground. But the patient person himself does not enjoy it.

while we may congratulate ourselves on the strength of our political institutions, in the end institutions consist of people and fulfill their roles only as long as the people in them respect their intended purpose. Rule of law depends not just on what is written down, but also on the behavior of those who interpret and enforce that rule.

All of us live with our own demons, do penance in our private ways. We need our friends for support and advice, but we draw our strength from within.

Remember me, that you shall know when you face the darkness that the light shall never die.

The spirit of those men of steel, / their gray-eyed wives and daughters

See with your own eyes, hear with your own ears, think your own thoughts, say what you must say, do what you must do, love all that you can and stand on your own two feet.

She showed courage and that's the most difficult thing in the world for any human being to show

And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me.

And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.