Quotes About Strength

David Adams Richards

Water is what it is, and does what it does. It can overwhelm, but it's not overwhelmed. It can be still, but it is not impatient. It can be forced to change course, but it is not frustrated.

Others need more physical horsepower. Some need very little of either.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.—Elbert Hubbard

Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax. Water

strength; just the ability to generate a focused thrust with speed. But a tense muscle is a slow one. So the high levels of training in the martial arts teach and demand balance and relaxation as much as anything else. Clearing the mind to being open and appropriately responsive is the key.

The body is soft, beautiful, vulnerable. It's easy to threaten it. It's easy to harm it. It takes next to nothing to cause pain, to draw blood, to break bones. Takes next to nothing to blast a body to bits. It's much harder to protect it, she says, and much more important.

Ar manai, kad meil? gali pad?ti žmogui išgyti?

Amazingly, even in midst of trauma, people continue to smile, to love, to celebrate, to create, and to renew.

These supersurvivors radically deviate from their previous life paths, often transforming the worst thing that's happened to them into the best.

Once the decision is out of your hands, there's no way you can be tempted into doing the wrong thing.

love is like a good piece of wood: It just gets stronger and stronger as the years go by.

If you really love each other, you'd be surprised what you can accomplish.

By not using it. By not believing in it anymore. Belief, having faith in something, is a very powerful thing

There was a time when Stone would have rated a platoon of crackerjack killers coming for him by land, sea and air. Those days apparently were over. A quartet of suits in a Cadillac on steroids was enough.

We've got some unholy badasses in here, as you know. But nobody

The Pullers sat there for a long time together, big, strong, and courageous men transformed back into two little boys by an old man's loving words that had come a lot later than they should have.

David Baldacci

captain of the boxing team. If you

column of tanker

David Baldacci

Life is hard for everybody, Alex. Anybody who says otherwise has just decided to ignore all the shit that comes with waking up every day and walking out the door.

David Baldacci