Quotes About Strength

Oh, there was a certain pleasure. And don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate

And now I found I couldn't stay small, my eyes stayed closed but my voice lifted, and kept lifting, I got louder and louder, I did not feel I had control of it, exactly, it was something I'd released that now rose up and away and escaped my reach.

One strong man and one weak is a colony, Sapper Jones," said Samad.

If my dad hadn't died young? No way I'd be here. It's the pain. Jews, gays, women, blacks—the bloody Irish. That's our secret fucking strength.

Janet Jackson kicked off this curious phenomenon, Madonna continued it, Beyoncé is its apex. Here dancing is intended as a demonstration of the female will, a concrete articulation of its reach and possibilities. The lesson is quite clear. My body obeys me. My dancers obey me. Now you will obey me.

Our mothers served as our balance, as our foot-rests.

for any daughter of hers was to do more than just survive—as my mother had—she was to thrive, learning many unnecessary skills, like tap dancing.

Brute force outraged her, I think, because it was outside her beloved realm of language, and in response to it she really had nothing to say.

My father had never liked tears. He thought a man never cried for others, only for himself. And if he did, he was a coward and deserved no pity.

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

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Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.

courage is simply fear that has said it's prayers!

It's not about who hurt you and broke you down. It's about who was always there and made you smile again." —Unknown

Love is most weak when there is more doubt than there is trust but love is most strong when you learn to trust even with all the doubts." —Unknown

the false courage of association with a crowd.

Ages of rain had run down the slope, circling, eddying in depressions, wearing deep round holes. There had been dry seasons, accumulations of dust, wind-blown seeds, and cedars rose wonderfully out of solid rock. But these were not beautiful cedars. They were gnarled, twisted, into weird contortions, as if growth were torture, dead at the tops, shrunken, gray, and old. Theirs had been a bitter fight.

And the reason that she did not falter and fail in this terrible situation was because her despair, great as it was, did not equal her love.

Life is hard enough, God knows, but it's unfailin' true in the end to the man or woman who finds the best in them an' stands by it. Uncle John, y'u talk so—so

You must use that hope an' faith to help you get well.

Surely with all its greatness it could not be lost; surely in the end it must triumph over evil.

Don't apologize. It's a sign of weakness. Captain Nathan Brittles, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.