Quotes About Strength

Young lady, you are God's creation, beautiful and precious. When people hurt you, it's not because you should be hurt or you deserve it. They are the ones who have done wrong.

You aimin' to go the full circle now? How long before I have to come get you up from the sidewalks? You got hurt and pain in you? Well, I used to know a man who knew how to live with his pain and make his hurt work for him. Your daddy died with dignity; there wasn't no bum in him. And he known some hurts in this life you ain't never even heard of!

You worry me, Catherine. You seem to think you're quite invincible." "I'm well aware that I'm not. But I'll not spend my life cowering. That would be no life at all.

Would you rather leave?" "Absolutely not. I may be bloodied, but I can still carry a sword.

It hurts to cry," she said, her voice raspy. "It hurts worse not to." "Did you cry?" "For four days straight." "Is that how long it took you to bury them?" "Yes, ma'am," he said in a voice that sounded like stone grating against stone.

How many times could a mother's heart break? An infinite number of times. Each time her children were hurt. She'd long ago accepted the pain of it, as well as the stoicism to never let it show. It was a mother's lot in life.

Somewhere to take shelter from the elements but not the storms of life.

And what about you, Frannie? he wanted to ask. Who will save you?

In all likelihood he would eventually destroy her, unless he found the strength to let her go.

This woman had every right to complain about her life, the harshness of it. Instead she met it head-on and worked hard to make it better for herself.

woman much like herself, who knew her worth was not measured by the man in her life but by her own accomplishments. Thus far in their letters, the ladies had listed

Gentlemen, if I truly want something, you do not have it within your power to stop me from obtaining it.

She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.

What women these Christians have." ~ Libanius, fourth-century pagan scholar

Your diseases cannot stand in front of your determination.

Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?

Trepidation is either the sign of great weakness or great wisdom.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.

When I'm rushing on my runAnd I feel just like Jesus's son

Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist

the goal is to get old without getting feeble.

You can't get strong without a program designed to develop strength. You can't build muscle unless you do the things that we know will force your muscles to get bigger. You can't make your body leaner unless you eat and train to accomplish that goal. There really are no loopholes. Efficacy + strength + the desire to improve + a solid program = results.

Muscles grow for a variety of reasons, but the main one is strength. If you force them to get stronger, they will get bigger. If you start lifting 100 pounds five times, but train your body to lift 150 pounds five times, you're going to end up with bigger muscles. But if you start off lifting 50 pounds ten times, and progress to lifting the same 50 pounds fifteen times, all you've done is increase the endurance of the muscles, which by itself will not make them bigger.