Quotes About Strength

We attack the problems. They don't attack us.

You do more than help. You're the reason I take my next breath.

It's better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a lamb. —John Gotti CHAPTER

Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me. —Al Capone CHAPTER

Anyone who wants to hurt you has to come through me first.

My favorite, and all macho alpha men like you have a secret softer side and a sweet tooth. It's part of the breed.

I need to know I can be what he needs, that we can get through the darkness together." ~ Demand

you know what happens when you push a dragon? They burn you alive, baby. You're playing with fire.

Your staying or leaving doesn't impact the premise of your demand, which seems to be that I have no control over myself. That's wrong. I decide who destroys me, not you, Mark Compton.

All I want is the here and now, this piece of time. And please save the pillow talk for someone who wants it. Contrary to what you seem to think, I'm no delicate rose

I hear cavemen lose their alpha if they go without food for too long.

I need to know I can be what he needs, that we can get through the darkness together. - demand

That must have been devastating." "At the time, yes," I admit, "but it helped me become me. We grow with every mountain we climbed. Even the ones that we fall down." "Even those we fall down," she says softly, almost to herself. She flicks me a look. "I think falling down is better than not climbing.

It's our scars that define us, Sara. Diego has to live life to appreciate life.

My mother used to say that to me and my brother, Gio, and even in the years since she passed, the words echo in my mind, as I know they must in my brother's. After all, we heard those words on nearly a daily basis from the moment our father disappeared until the moment our mother died seven years later.

I'm going to have to grow my own teeth.

Lisa Renee Jones

You were still you, Troy, and you were nothing but one big Papa Bear with me." She shook her head. "No. Scratch that. You had a caveman thing going on that doesn't seem to go away when you shift. We really need to talk about this habit of yours of flinging me over your shoulder and carrying me off to your cave.

His presence in my life is like the lighthouse in stormy waters to a ship lost at sea.

Let feminism be this girl raging at a chandelier.

And when I look at my mother, I reflect on her strength and endurance. She's cranky sometimes, but she is lovable and loving. I'd be happy to be there at 86.

Nah. I'm a tough cookie. Except for the cancer, I'm fine.

When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging me to go one more hour, one more day, one more week, reminding me of the rewards I would have if I carried on a little longer. In this way, she taught me how to endure — not just the physical trials of footbinding and childbearing but the more torturous pain of the heart, mind, and soul.

We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.