Quotes About Strength

Learn how to be your own heroine, so you too can find your own hero." Right, because why would you want to spend time learning how to be your own heroine if not for the sole purpose of ensnaring a hero?

This was the problem with having walls so hard and high and unscalable, she supposed. When they came down, they crumbled completely, shattering into nothingness. She felt utterly defenseless right now.

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

There is a time to struggle to achieve what we want and a time to give up any desire, a time to be strong and a time to surrender one's strength.

Life's a forge! Yes, and hammer and anvil, too! You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand boldly to it! Metal's worthless till it's shaped and tempered! More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving; and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.

Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost.

We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.

Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.

When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success; and when we have well surveyed the powers of our own minds, and made some estimate what we may expect from them, we shall not be inclined either to sit still, and not set our thoughts on work at all, in despair of knowing anything; nor on the other side, question everything, and declaim all knowledge, because some things are not to be understood.

I'd say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being.

Lois Gladys Leppard

Matrimony and firefighting. They ain't for cowards.

I don't need no PMS. I can bitch under my own steam.

Some men are warriors and some men are weenies. The trick is figuring out which is which.

Generally, men are superior in the areas of heavy lifting, where there's a past only by pachyderms and building cranes. Beyond that, I believe any right-thinking thinking will see that women have the indisputable advantage.

It don't matter what happens, if you're only srong and have great courage.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

Leadership is mostly a power over imagination, and never more so than in combat. The bravest man alone can only be an armed lunatic. The real strength lies in the ability to get others to do your work.

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

She smiled a lot, laughed easily and listened intently when others spoke. She had been battling the system her whole life, but it had not made her bitter. To me she was the epitome of the modern Iranian woman – a generous heart and an inner core of indefatigable strength.

We've all got disabilities. It's just that sometimes they're hidden.

Why do superheroes wear capes? His brother's voice. To show how cape-able they are? His own childhood voice.

Jim Brown will give you that leg and then take it away from you. Jim Taylor will give it to you and then ram it through your chest.