Quotes About Strength

He strengthened his body to keep up with his mind. He began lifting weights, practicing judo, and wrestling. One day after school, a bully tried to pick on Carmack's neighbor, only to become a victim of Carmack's judo skills.

He had ceased to be Shimonkeh when they took his mother. He ceased to be Shimon when they took his clothes and half his hair. He was prisoner #641, a slave belonging to Albert Speer.

If you must have a female role model, may I recommend Katherine Hepburn or Angelina Jolie: lots of pants, lots of attitude, no jewelry.

Courage, my friends. Take courage.

You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.

I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.

Being a bitch is easy. It's finding the alternative that's hard.

There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.

The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.

When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.

She is carrying herself through the day, and it's not an easy task.

stanchion, n. I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.

It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.

Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together

if my whole world is going to crash down around me, then i am going to make the sound of the crashing

I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.

I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived.

Her vulnerability is open, but she's safe within it.

The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.

He is much stronger than I think I am. He is mischievous, outgoing, ready to soar through the clouds, while I often feel like the cloud itself.

Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen my upper-arm definition, all in the next hour.

But I think we were walking around like we were invincible. And maybe that's a bad way to live your life. Because you're not invincible. Nobody is. And maybe now that we've learned that, we'll be better.

They beat the shit out of me. But you know what? I didn't need that shit inside of me. I'm glad it's gone.

better , adj. and adv. Will it ever get better? It better. Will it ever get better? It better. Will it ever get better? It better.