Quotes About Strength

That when you're surrounded by people you love, you have the strength to face anything

Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.

Cindy McCormick Martinusen

[C]elebrate the exquisite beauty of every woman.

I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

Facing our fears, skeletons, and mistakes is paramount in finding ourselves-in living with ourselves. Once it's done, that fear will be laid to rest, and she'll be stronger for having dealt with it and have more peace becausse she's not carrying the weight of that fear every day and night.

We all have value and the right to find as much peace with ourselves and our flaws and weaknesses as possible. Why would forgiveness be so important to God if we didn't need it all the time? He knew we would need it from Him, but also from us for ourselves and for others. When we get peace with our weakest areas, we'll find new ways to build on our strongest areas.

I used to think I wasn't strong enough to face my future. But eventually I learned that I only have to face today, and that's where our loving God, faithful family, and good friends come in. Each brings something to the day that strengthens us - just enough, but who needs more than just enough?

Love wasn't all that touched their lives on this planet, but it made everything else endurable.

Choose reality, Sarah. It's the only place where strength and faith can begin to work.

Do not say, "Personally, I am as worthless as a bolt, but if I stop being an isolated bolt and start gathering with my equally undistinguished and boltlike neighbors, we are, collectively, a big sack of bolts that can hit things harder." You

voler vivere e morire in mezzo agli uomini é segno di grave debolezza

No temas, porque yo estoy contigo; no desmayes, porque yo soy tu Dios que te esfuerzo; siempre te ayudaré, siempre te sustentaré con la diestra de mi justicia.

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

You have to stop looking for someone else to save you. Only you can do that for yourself.

Maybe it's been a gradual thing over the years, the gentle eroding of their love, like seawater over a pebble... She can't even pinpoint the exact moment it changed. But it seems the stronger she gets the weaker their relationship becomes

We tell our daughters we don't trust them in a thousand ways. We don't consciously mean to, but we steal their confidence in their own strength by stealing their pain. And their confidence in our strength by saying we aren't strong enough to see them struggle.

Faith isn't really faith until it's beat up and put through a fire. When you're crushed, you feel like you're dying. But you're actually coming to life. When you're broken, that's when the best of you comes out.

I don't think you should shape yourself for a boy, or anyone else. I didn't. You need to know deep down, in your own truest self, that you are more powerful when you're not lugging around all that flab. You are in control. You are strong. You are glorious.

There is a word that shrinks love using. It is 'resilient'. The idea seems to be that some people, better people, have thick outer shells and don't let things bother them. Don't let the voices in.

It was easy to understand why women feared men with their physical strength and lust and social powers, but women, with their canny intuitions, were so much deeper: they could predict what was to come long before it came, dream it overnight, and read your mind.

It was easy to understand why women feared men with their physical strength and lust and social powers, but women, with their canny intuitions, were so much deeper:

I was isolated but not ostracized, ignored but not abused.

I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was.