Quotes About Strength

Tears are not endless.

I has a last look at the sea, which was rumpled and agitated, a thick muscle that would hold on tight to everything it swallowed.

He didn't like her strong, nor did he like her weak.

thin but charming layer of femininity covering a masculine confidence and drive.

what I'd become more interested in is how we believed we could be objective in any way at all, we who each came in with our own personal definitions of kindness, strength, masculinity, femininity, God, civilization, right and wrong.

Oh sweetie.' He hugs me hard. 'It's okay. It's gonna be okay.' It's so much easier to cry when there are arms around you.

I will lay me down for to bleed awhile, the ballad went on in my head. Then I'll rise and fight with you again.

When venturing into a dangerous region I generally let Azgelasgus accompany me. His metal strength has saved my skin on more than one occasion." "Azgelasgus?" "Yes, I named him after the famous hero of legend; he is every bit as brave, and probably several times stronger.

The determination that is his biggest strength . . . is also at times his fatal flaw. Like an unthinking machine, he'll just keep shoving, not realizing a step back, a one-night pause, could let some obstacle move out of the way and smooth his path.

Confucius said, "When young, beware of fighting; when strong, beware of sex; and when old, beware of possession," which simply means that a boy loves fighting, a young man loves women, and an old man loves money.

nothing the western nations can do can stop her or keep her down.

Of all the rights of woman, the greatest is to be a mother

I have a congenital aversion to failure.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions, not wholly unworthy of its almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly, alone, hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

You're facing it now, and it's never too late.

He suddenly understood that power and pleasure were keenly entwined. One could succumb to such power. It corrupts the foolish and tests the resolute.

They have locked up my body, but can imprision neither my mind nor my soul.

Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. We know worry is destructive, and yet we continue to be choked by anxiety over what might happen.

At all times, in all circumstances, Christ is able and willing to provide the strength we need to be content. Contentment occurs when Christ's strength is infused into my weak body, soul, and spirit.

We survive the packages of pain God allows in our lives by remembering who God is and what He has done in the past.

Faith raises us above our circumstances. Faith enables us to be content even when life doesn't make sense. Faith is the bulwark that keeps us strong even when we're assailed by agonizing thoughts about what might happen or by what has happened.

Surely, grief chokes courage, blinds knowledge, and clouds the senses. There is no greater enemy than grief.

In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.