Quotes About Strength

leaning hard into the wind in order to complete the job expected of him. He was an Eagle

THE WORLD IS HARD. BE STRONG. LOVE IS FOR ONLY A FEW. DON'T EXPECT IT. LIFE ISN'T FAIR. BUT SOME PEOPLE ARE. BE ONE OF THEM.

She gave Mother Beal a look I couldn't, at that age, interpret but I have since come to think of as profound maternal compassion, a strength emanating from a deep well of endurance that, across my life, I've come understand was not particular to Sarah Schofield. I've witnessed it in other women who have suffered much without losing their hope or their gift for embracing with forgiveness those who are broken.

Non c'è fine alla crudeltà in questo mondo, e non importa quanto si precipiti in basso, non c'è mai fondo. Ma tu hai una cosa bella in te, Mose. Sei un sioux. Nelle tue vene scorre sangue buono e nobile. Non permettere a nessuno di dirti il contrario.

That is one thing love does. It tests us in difficult ways. But love is also fear's worst enemy. In what is ahead of you, hold to your love and not your fear. And when you imagine, imagine the best of what might be.

William Kent Krueger

1. The world is hard. Be strong. 2. Love is for only a few. Don't expect it. 3. Life isn't fair. But some people are. Be one of them.

ritual is the railing we hold to, all of us together, that keeps us upright and connected until the worst is past.

In your dark night, I urge you to hold to your faith, to embrace hope, and to bear your love before you like a burning candle, for I promise that it will light your way.

There's no end to the cruelty in this world, and no matter how far down you reach, no bottom. But you got one thing going for you, Mose. You're Sioux. There's good, noble blood running through your veins. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.

I'm strong," the woman replied. "I can take this." Henry said, "You have always been strong, Leah, but a sweat is not about enduring. It is about yielding.

I comfort myself with something Henry once told me. He said we all stumble in the dark, but that's why the Great Mystery gave us voices, so that we can call out, seeking others in the dark. And we were given hands so that we can reach out to help one another. Alone, the darkness swallows us. But together, we help each other through. So, when things seem bleakest, I tell myself to soldier on. I try to remind myself to call out. I do my best to be ready to offer a hand.

You have won…Maiev. But the huntress…is nothing without the hunt. You…are nothing…without me.

Illidan glared at the Broken and his pathetic allies. "You are not prepared." A

We are dying, Aenarion. Soon there will be none of us left to oppose Chaos. We have tried your way. It has not worked. The forces of Chaos are stronger now than they were the day you passed through the Flame.' 'That is not my fault, wizard.' 'No, but it is the truth.

You speak the truth, but the Light will preserve us. It always had, and it always will.

fear is fear if you allow it to rule you it doesn't matter of what you are afraid of" - Maiev Shadowsong

I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.

Hardly had they rested when the waves carried them out again, like a nightmare that repeats itself over and over through the night, and over and over again through the years. Back and forth they went and he feared that her strength could not hold. He had no confidence, not in himself, nor in her. He felt like a helpless child, and Diane seemed helpless too, their long struggle getting them nowhere, only repeating itself--contraction, release, contraction again.

Their message is conveyed in that hortatory tone and declamatory voice used by politicians when starting a condition contrary to fact. People who aren't cowed don't spend a lot of time proclaiming they won't be cowed. Leaders who really have strengthened the voice of freedom don't don't need to reassure there electorates that they're committed to doing so.

The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it. At the crest of their popular strength, in July 1932, the National Socialists had attained but 37 per cent of the vote. But the 63 per cent of the German people who expressed their opposition to Hitler were much too divided and shortsighted to combine against a common danger which they must have known would overwhelm them unless they united, however temporarily, to stamp it out. The

Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you.

Parents of murdered children have it worst, and to me the fathers have it even worse than the mothers because they are taught to be stoic, to "act like a man.

Christians find in God a source of moral strength that helps us to lead better lives than those we would have led without Him, still it would be arrogant and ignorant to claim that unbelievers don't often lead good moral lives—in fact, sometimes lives that put ours to shame.