Quotes About Strength

Who is he who walks always beside you? No-fucking-body, thank you very much. I walk alone.

That hunger for power will need to be beaten out of her

However if you wish unhappiness on someone else then the very strength of that wish will make you unhappy.

Kurogane: For all my life... I've wanted strength. I didn't want those things precious to me to be taken away from me anymore. But, to have strength means to invite disaster to come to you. And strength alone can't really protect you.

The princess is strong. And because she's strong, she's fragile. If somebody doesn't teach her that fact, she'll break.

These are people whose names are lost to history, but when you have that kind of encounter, somehow you get a whole new perspective on what's of value and how to behave in the face of oppression, and the strength that any single person or a group of people can bring with their own will.

Still, smiles followed tears; they kept working and Jessy kept trying, and together they moved forward.

you. To add glumness to disability is to double its crippling power. Jessy's cheeriness still smooths her way.

Real courage is being kind again, after you've felt that your kindness was thrown in your face. To risk it once more, or even twice more takes a special strength.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. -- On Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

Those who have been in the grip of passion will know its suffocating strength. It shuts down all the normal senses, occludes judgement, leaves one feeling weak and fevered.

Being seized by powerful affects which agitate the mind or soul constitutes a grave danger to our being.41 All these disturbances happen, Spinoza continues, 'only in the love of those things that can perish, as [wealth, honour, sensual pleasure] can do. But love [amor] toward the eternal and infinite thing feeds the mind [animum] with a joy entirely exempt from sadness. This is greatly to be desired [desiderandum], and to be sought with all our strength.'42

The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.

Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.

He is not standing on the shore of eternity beckoning us to join him there; he is standing beside us, strengthening us in this life.

Yo, poeta de oficio, condenada tantas veces

For one has the right to shout. So, I am shouting.

I will surpass myself in waves, ah, Lord, and may everything come and fall upon me, even the incomprehension of myself at certain white moments because all I have to do is comply with myself and then nothing will block my path until death-without-fear, from any struggle or rest I will rise up as strong and beautiful as a young horse.

Why don't clouds fall, since everything else does? Because gravity is less than the strength of the air that keeps them up there. Clever, right? Yes, but one day they fall as rain. That is my revenge.

All of me swims, floats, crosses what exists with my nerves, I am nothing but a desire, anger, vagueness, as impalpable as energy. Energy? but where is my strength? in imprecision, in imprecision, in imprecision . .

And one of the things I learned is that one should live in spite of. Although, one should eat. Although, one should love. Although, it must die. Even it is often the same even though it pushes us forward. It was despite the fact that it gave me an unhappy anguish that was the creator of my own life.