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Quotes About Strength

I am the Olympics.
~ Dave Eggers
There would be a time when the world created people stronger than them. When all of this got worked out. But until then there would be women and men like Hanne and Alan, who were imperfect and had no path toward perfection.
~ Dave Eggers
Alan was feeling strong. He did two push-ups and felt stronger still.
~ Dave Eggers
Be Strong, Be brave, Be True. Endure
~ Dave Eggers
To struggle is to strengthen my faith, my hope and my belief in humanity.
~ Dave Eggers
This book is a form of struggle, and it keeps my spirit alive to struggle.
~ Dave Eggers
In her life Josie had heard only one or two people apologize. Wasn't that something? Wouldn't that be significant to future anthropologists? This was a time in history when no one was sorry. Sorry took too much courage, too much strength and faith and rightness to have a place in this cowardly century.
~ Dave Eggers
Now create in your mind the best of days, and memorize these details, place this day center in your mind, and when you are the most frightened, bring forth this day and place yourself within it.
~ Dave Eggers
A circle is the strongest shape in the universe. Nothing can beat it, nothing can improve upon it, nothing can be more perfect.
~ Dave Eggers
Porque soy imbécil y porque recibí demasiadas lecciones de hombres y mujeres buenos provistos de rígidos códigos morales, hallo mis fuerzas en la afirmación de lo que es correcto. Esto pocas veces me ha servido de nada en situaciones como esta.
~ Dave Eggers
Courage was the beginning, being unafraid, moving ahead, through small hardships, not turning back. Courage was simply a form of moving forward.
~ Dave Eggers
This book is a form of struggle, and it keeps my spirit alive to struggle. To struggle is to strengthen my faith, my hope and my belief in humanity.
~ Dave Eggers
Any Tenderloin kid was always prepared.
~ Dave Eggers
lived through an extraordinary experience, yet I was fortunate enough to learn from it and walk away a better person. I can't change my past, and it does not grant me the right to use it as a crutch, nor am I destined to become a prisoner because of it. For years I have lived by the philosophy: that which does not kill you can only make you stronger. I simply had to learn to pick myself up at an earlier age.
~ Dave Pelzer
I believed that I was alone in my struggle and that my battle was one of survival. By
~ Dave Pelzer
I made sure I let go of the past, accepting the fact that that part of my life was only a small fraction of my life. I knew black hole was out there, waiting to suck me in and forever control my destiny--but only if I let it. I took positive control over my life. I'm so blessed. The challenges of the past made me immensely strong inside.
~ Dave Pelzer
The only way to keep your head above water is to convince yourself you are going to make it.
~ Dave Pelzer
day I vowed to myself that I would never, ever again give that bitch the satisfaction of hearing me beg her to stop beating me.
~ Dave Pelzer
The body can endure practically anything--pain, fatigue, you name it-- but its the mind that matters.
~ Dave Pelzer
I was on my own, and every night I prayed to God that I could be strong both in body and soul.
~ Dave Pelzer
That day I vowed to myself that I would never, ever again give that bitch the satisfaction of hearing me beg her to stop beating me. In
~ Dave Pelzer
no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on to a brighter world.
~ Dave Pelzer
Never concede to evil…. When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.
~ Unknown
Mind over matter represents the triumph of will over physical hindrance. Our thoughts are our weapon against the world.
~ David Adam