Quotes About Strength

When will you stop laughing at misery? I'm so sick and tired of your pseudo-strength. All I want you to do is laugh at what is funny and cry at what isn't, but you won't do that, will you?

There were better things to do with life than giving in to the peer pressure of mortality.

Charlie made an art of living. He understood, as great artists do, that every life is a mixture of comedy and tragedy, joy and sorrow, daring and fear. We choose the tenor of our lives from those clashing notes. Even when Charlie's strength was fading, when the golf course had become an obstacle course, when the infirmity of encroaching time could no longer be denied, he chose to turn his wedge into a walking stick and to carry it with panache.

If you're negative, your whole body suffers. A negative person falls apart, because the food that is supplied with optimism is not present." An optimist does not deny darkness. Optimists like Charlie refuse to sink into it, to hide in it, to surrender to darkness.

But what Lawson seems to have stressed most were the freedom from fear and the power of humility

Hamish Alexander stood on Benjamin the Great 's flag deck with his hands clasped behind him and tried very hard not to feel a sense of godlike power.

Roaring Deeps

Courtesy seldom costs anything, and the willingness to extend it can be its own subtle declaration of strength. There

You're entitled to not be strong about everything every instant. And you have the right to admit that it hurts, and that things frighten you.

But then she looked into the single brown eye of the gaunt, half-naked woman facing her, and a wolf looked back at her—a wounded pack leader, starved and weakened, who had been goaded and harried by the hounds on its back trail but would be harried no more. A wolf who would die where it stood rather than be driven further.

My God, woman! Your life was destroyed. You've rebuilt a new one, a deeply productive one, without ever surrendering. You're entitled to not be strong about everything every instant. And you have the right to admit that it hurts, and that things frighten you.

What's conquered by the sword depends on the sword to stay conquered.

A people or a faith divided against itself became the sum of its weaknesses, not its strengths, and anyone who didn't know that was doomed.

What's conquered by the sword is owned only so long as the sword stays sharp. What's brought together in amity, in recognition of common needs and purpose—of common enemies—has the strength to stand even after swords are no longer required.

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We'll remember we're Marines

Hatred is a poison, but anger—good, honestly-come-by anger, the kind that stems from outrage, from the need to protect the weak or lift the fallen or stop the cruel—that's not poison. That's strength. Too much of it can lead to hatred, and from there it's one slippery step to self-damnation, but never underestimate the empowering strength of the right sort of anger.

I am a marathoner. I love to run and I do it four times a week. I am in great shape and I look and feel like it. I never get tired when I run and I never quit before I finish my runs. I always feel strong when I run and I feel terrific after I get finished. I love the feeling of accomplishment and the anticipation of my next run. I am a marathoner.

The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears

It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with, it is the mother of the thing you fear. The very thing that has given birth to the nightmare.

I still have a tendency to sit back and wait out the bad things that try and take over my life.

True Love Isn't Hearts & Flowers. It's Blood & Guts & Bouquets Of Barbed Wire

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.