Quotes About Strength

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

Love is the most durable power in the world.

The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

There is power in corporate fasting and power in corporate praise.

You don't have to shout from the mountaintops. Sometimes power comes in a soft, calm, compassionate way, like a quiet warrior.

Boys are still led to believe that power is associated with domination.

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

The force of love, the force of reunion is unstoppable.

Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being.

Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until it threatens to overwhelm everything; it buckles the knees, makes you falter, makes you break your stride. In those moments she would will herself forward until despair was replaced by something stronger.

Storms without rain. Winds without water. She woke, and when she sat up, the dust fountained off her and the voice that accompanied her once again stirred, once again whispered, "Get up. Keep walking. Don't stop.

If somebody's going to tell me I can't do something, I'll break every bone in my body proving them wrong.

Today was scary. But they're all scary. We can't fret around the planet waiting for something to kill us, or worried something's going to kill someone we love. I'm not going to stare off into the void waiting for it all to end.

You don't really know anything about yourself until you've been forced to deal with pain, real pain.

If tough times seem to keep you down you might as well rest in peace." Will Robins

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.

I think it's because it shows that people--or hobbits, as the case may be--can find strength they didn't know they had.

Mom would often talk about a refugee boy she'd met in a hospital in Afghanistan. He was the victim of a land mine and had lost a leg. She said to him that she brought greetings to him from schoolchildren in New York. "Tell them not to worry about me," this little boy told her from his hospital bed. "I still have one leg.