Quotes About Strength

And no worries, my elevator still goes to the top floor.

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it's the mark of a man how he handles hardship, not what he does for a living.

If you have a why to live for… you can tolerate any how.

cada libra de músculo quema tres veces más calorías que cada libra de grasa.

God never promised to take away our problems, but He did promise to meet our deepest needs, often through our weakness.

There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.

It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.

Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.

Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.

Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.

A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching—they are your family. And they were my heroes.

The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.

They say you can know a man by his enemies, Dresden. He smiled, and laughter lurked beneath his next words, never quite surfacing. You defy beings that should cow you into silence. You resist forces that are inevitable for no more reason than that you believe they should be resisted. You bow your head to neither demons nor angels, and you put yourself in harm's way to defend those who cannot defend themselves. He nodded slowly. I think I like you.

If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you've left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.

I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits.

Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.

My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.

Ha-ha! Ah-hahahaha! I am wizard; hear me roar!

My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps.

I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

Hell's bells. I don't call him the Fist of God as a pet name, folks.

Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, You're a good man, Harry. I swallowed and bowed my head, made humble by the tone of her voice and the expression on her face, more than the words themselves. Not always rational, she said, smiling. But you're the best kind of crazy.