Quotes About Strength

Não há amor resistente à solidão.

God does not want us to be independent (standing alone) or code-pendent (unable to stand without someone's help); He wants us to be interdependent, meaning we need one another standing shoulder to shoulder to engage the adversary.

My Voice grew faint through the Curtain of my Pain.

Her principal tutor, Roger Ascham, reported that at the age of sixteen 'the constitution of her mind is exempt from female weakness, and she is endowed with a masculine power of application.

What you lost weakened you, could kill you. What you wanted kept you going. What you wanted gave you strength.

You throw yourself on the world like turf on a fire.

Any weapon's only as good as the man using it, and a good man can make a good weapon out of most anything.

At the end of the day the fence were still not complete but my family had witnessed my new strength and they I could be the man

And then Lucinda was like an athlete who, with her body warm, has ripped a muscle and not felt it. As she cooled, she stiffened, and felt-it hurt more than you would think possible-the damage.

Lithuanians and it would take more than

I will always have doubts...But I will always overcome them.

What the hell kind of person was capable of sounding erudite while losing blood out of his face by the pint?

Yet he derives emotional strength merely from the knowledge of her existence.

he was literally holding his face together.

Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty.

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.

The task of an executive is not to change human beings. Rather, as the Bible tells us in the parable of the Talents, the task is to multiply performance capacity of the whole by putting to use whatever strength, whatever health, whatever aspiration there is in individuals.

A young man who has the right strength for one organization may be a total misfit in another, which from the outside looks just the same.

The task of an executive is not to change human beings. Rather, as the Bible tells us in the parable of the talents, the task is to multiply the performance capacity of the whole by putting to use whatever strength, whatever health, whatever aspiration there is in individuals.

They were stepping up, not cowering down.

Peter Fritzsche

But aggression has its constructive qualities as well.

True, nineteenth-century diaries and letters offer scattered evidence of wives governing, even bullying, their husbands. They did so commanding a varied repertory of techniques that included tears, hysterical seizures, and ostentatious displays of swooning vulnerability. In that weakness there was indeed strength.