Quotes About Strength

Pain (2) ...You want to give up, throw in the towel but you can't give up because you're all you have.

Paul was a strong person in every respect and it made us all feel much better that he was there.

She is also the least defenseless woman I have ever known.

A creek is more powerful than despair.

now that she's at one with herself and the world she can work my brain over with high horsepower energy.

Courage alone was keeping the animal on its feet.

The new day and a gentle wind arrived together. For a time, the breeze practiced caution, plucking tentatively at this or that, as though teaching itself what to do with a strength as yet unfamiliar and untried. Then, as the dim gray light in the early morning sky flexed its own sinews and found force within them, the wind rushed at the tules and set them dancing.

the older men who had asked neither favors nor assistance from anyone. They had settled their own problems in their own way or died trying, and if they died, no survivor had ever looked to the law for redress. Andy

I'm not worried about you because you don't get it your own way. You never have, and believe it or not, that makes you extraordinary.

Well, I've been down so Goddamn long, that it looks like up to me.

She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power.

She dances in a ring of fire and throws of the challenge with a shrug.

Be always like the sea, than breaking up against cliffs it finds always the force to try again.

The religious Right went wrong by forgetting its religious and moral roots and going for political power; the civil rights movement was proven right in operating out of its spiritual strength and letting its political influence flow from its moral influence.

the peace movement sometimes does underestimate the problem of evil, and in doing so weakens its authority and its message.

Thank you God for making me strong, and thank you God for staying where you belong— Inside me.

Sticks and stones can't break my soul But words, they seem to sometimes harm me— Maybe it's because I'm forever hungry— ...for the truth of love.

A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble and not blatant and arrogant; because our people and our country want to serve others and not dominate others. And a nation without morality will soon lose its influence around the world.

She drove down from North Carolina to see me, and reminded me of scriptural lessons that tragedies and disappointments should be a source of increased patience, strength, wisdom, and a commitment to our Christian life. I rejected her premises at first, but Ruth finally convinced me to relegate my political and business ambitions to a secondary position of importance for a while and to assume some challenging religious commitments.

You have given me a great responsibility—to stay close to you, to be worthy of you, and to exemplify what you are. Let us create together a new national spirit of unity and trust. Your strength can compensate for my weakness, and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes.

Love is a deliberate and determined act of the will. There is nothing idle or passive about it. It doesn't wane or fail when life gets tough; it only grows stronger and more resolved. It's the bond that keeps your relationship from drifting when every storm in the ocean is raging to tear you apart. It's the one thing you can depend on when all of life seems bent on getting you down.

Aqui digo: que se teme por amor; mas que, por amor, também, é que a coragem se faz.

O senhor sabe: sertão é onde manda quem é forte, com as astúcias. Deus mesmo, quando vier, que venha armado! E bala é um pedacinhozinho de metal...