Quotes About Strength

The serenity prayer, 'God grant me the strength to accept...' That's a prayer that's actually in my car. I say it every day.

The Jiu Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong.

I've always believed that you should never, ever give up and you should always keep fighting even when there's only a slightest chance.

Each and every one of us has a fire that burns inside us. They can try like hell to put it out, but as long as we know in our minds who we are meant to be, they will never stand a chance.

If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger.

The idea of jiu-jitsu is to give the little guy a chance to beat the big guy.

If you grit your teeth and show real determination, you'll always have a chance.

Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so

give up believing that being able to escape our loneliness is going to bring any lasting happiness or joy or sense of well-being or courage or strength.

When inspiration has become hidden, when we feel ready to give up, this is the time when healing can be found in the tenderness of pain itself.

So the next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

When I was first married, my husband said I was one of the bravest people he knew. When I asked him why, he said because I was a complete coward but went ahead and did things anyhow.

AS A SPECIES, we should never underestimate our low tolerance for discomfort.

I am bigger than my thoughts and emotions.

se había engañado a sí misma al dejarse convencer, por un momento, de que los seres humanos no se dividen en exterminadores y exterminados, y que los exterminadores tienden a colocarse en la situación dominante en cuanto pueden. La fuerza de voluntad es inútil si no se va a algún lado.

La valentía de ella, al fin y al cabo, no era otra cosa que su determinación por sobrevivir.

I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean to the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as comedy – for otherwise how can we manage to bear it?

Above all, though, we don't want a weakly habit of constant complaint. As a rough guide, remember that while the average man is ill for four days a year, a grown woman must expect to spend one fourth of her life in actual pain. Daisy felt a rush of admiration. So far she herself had done nothing like her fair share.

Courage and endurance are useless if they are never tested

and believe me, Mrs. Green, she'll be pegging out her own washing until the day she dies.

El corage y la perseverancia son inútiles si no se ponen a prueba

Wat ik het meest in mensen waardeer is de enige deugd die ze met goden en dieren gemeen hebben, en die je daarom eigenlijk geen deugd kunt noemen. Ik heb het over moed.

Life must go on, no matter how large your problems may be.

Leave it till the morning. We'll all feel stronger then.