Quotes About Strength

I'm about to give up, but I stop. I always try to last at least three minutes longer than giving up.

The weight does not life itself, although over time it lightens. Sometimes we need to push. And sometimes that is very hard.

Question: On a scale from one to ten how fierce are you?- David: You are just asking me this because I am gay... What the fuck does that mean? -David Levithan, at Teen Lit Con-

I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.

when you haven't got the numbers, be vicious. It's called minority politics.

David Morrell

always wanted to live with a man who looks like a boxer.

In front of an audience of Protestant clergy, the Catholic JFK was drawing strength from his vulnerability.

For our purposes, it is really only necessary to recognize that power is that which makes you go strong, while force makes you go weak. Love, compassion, and forgiveness, which may be mistakenly seen by some people as submissive, are in fact profoundly empowering. Revenge, judgmentalism, and condemnation, on the other hand, inevitably make you go weak.

The beginning of a solution to a problem is never far away. All you have to do is ask. That's not weakness. That's the strength of knowing that you have to face your problems.

But to die to escape from poverty or love or anything painful is not the mark of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is softness to fly from what is troublesome

Weak people are destructive; powerful people are constructive. Powerful people create, facilitate, and make things happen.

Autonomy and independence involve taking care of yourself—not doing things that diminish you.

I wasn't broken, just resting, readying myself for the next big thing.

My only comfort was the knowledge that I was not alone. Huddled in the hallways and making the most of our pathetic French, my fellow students and I engaged in the sort of conversation commonly overheard in refugee camps. Sometime me cry alone at night. That be common for I, also, but be more strong, you. Much work and someday you talk pretty. People start love you soon. Maybe tomorrow, okay.

Bitch, I'm here to tell you that it's going to be all right. We'll get through this shit, motherfucker, just you wait.

Back off, world. It's time for me to be good to me.

That be common for I, also, but be more strong, you. Much work and someday, you talk pretty. People start love you soon. Maybe tomorrow, okay.

Isn't that sweet of my only son to travel all this way so he can whine about his pathetic little friend? Maybe if I weren't strapped to my deathbed I could muster up the strength to give a damn.

Nothing feels better than being singled out by something that at best should fear you and at worst would like to eat you.

It's beautiful, the Atlantic, but at the same time so insistent, always advancing, always taking what it wants.

Why aren't you stronger? I wanted to ask. I mean, really. Can't you just try harder? Of course, I was drunk too, so what could I say?

Recent studies show, in fact, that it's not only the love of a husband, a wife, or children that can enable morale to remain strong and slow the progression of illness, but also the simple love and caring attention of friends old and new.

The resistant mice were able to mount a powerful defense, thanks to their immune system, even after cancer had taken hold.