Quotes About Strength

The trick wasn't necessarily having less fear, it was finding more courage.

Clara didn't carry a grudge. They were too heavy and she had too far to go.

It wasn't really, he knew, about less fear. It was about more courage.

There seems such a fine line between falling into place and falling apart.

Happiness as an act of defiance. A revolutionary act.

believe in using your head. But not in spending too much time in there. Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering, There's a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in.' 'What an extraordinary poem. Ruth Zardo?' 'Leonard Cohen. Clara used it in her piece. She wrote it on the wall behind the three of you, like graffiti.

Your brain is your weapon.

Patience. Patience. With patience comes choice, and with choice comes power.

She was stuffing her innards back. Sewing herself up, putting her skin, her make-up, her party frock back on.

When a woman commits to something she does it with both her heart and her head. Very powerful.

After all, it's how the light gets in.

Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth for the other. Now there is no more loneliness.

People instinctively let down their guard when they saw a limp, an illness, a flaw in someone else. Not out of compassion but because it made them feel superior. Stronger. Those people, Gamache knew, did not always last long. It was not a useful instinct.

The Chief had once told him about the behavior of gorillas when faced with an attack. They met it head on, staring down the enemy. But every now and then they'd reach out to touch the gorilla beside them. To make sure they were not alone. Keeping his eyes on the road, Jean-Guy reached out and touched Gamache's shoulder.

Armand Gamache had seen the worst. But he'd also seen the best. Often in the same person.

Joy doesn't ever leave, you know. It's always with you. And one day you'll find it again.

But never, ever mistake kindness for weakness.

Ruth lost her footing. Haniya grabbed her before she fell. She held Ruth's hand for the rest of the way, and wondered if maybe the key was not in being held, but in holding.

I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness for weakness.

Thus human courts acquit the strong, And doom the weak, as therefore wrong.

The very force of his personality both created and crippled. How much more could he have accomplished had he been kinder? But then, dynamism and kindness often don't go together…

The memory of the heart was far stronger than whatever was kept in the mind. The question was, what did people keep in their heart?

When you've seen the worst, You appreciate the best.