Quotes About Strength

she is a girl who cannot walk her troubles off, or work them off; she is a girl to sit around and glare.

Parting message: Don't be afraid of shining a light. Don't be afraid of being powerful. Don't be afraid of being more special.

The ones who are prepared to see these changes and not crumble in fear will be the pillars on which others will lean when nothing makes sense to them. It doesn't mean you will provide the truth to them, it just means you are not falling down like they are.

Maybe what has to happen is that the individual must allow himself to be swept along, must find himself in the stream of no-choice, the single direction. This is what makes things inevitable. You use the restrictions and penalties they invent to make yourself stronger. History means to merge. The purpose of history is to climb out of your own skin.

God made big people. And God made little people. But Colt made the .45 to even things up.

Meredith was not so secure in her maturity that she did not suffer those periods of despondency and doubt which seemed to weave through the lives of self-reliant women.

Any curly-haired boy can write windswept ballads. You have to crush people's heads. That's the only way to make those fuckers listen.

I'm not looking to wear the white man out with my ability to suffer.

it can't afford to be hard. it won't allow itself psychologically.

Pause for a moment, you wretched weakling, and take stock of yourself.

When the going gets tough the tough get going

The women kept washing floors. It seemed to be what they did in difficult times. Unvarying things, she saw, must have a deeper value than we know.

What people look for in a dying friend is a stubborn kind of gravel-voiced nobility, a refusal to give in, with moments of indomitable humor.

Legwarmers lend a note of paramilitary poise, a hint of archaic warriorhood.

The family is strongest where objective reality is most likely to be misinterpreted. What

God is guts" — a pre-Hemingway and pre-Hammett apothegm of toughness — is from the hobo ballad "The Little Red God

There's a dance in the old dame yet.

it s cheerio my deario that pulls a lady through exclamation point

Open your heart and refuse to walk around the world begging for love.

People ought never be defined by their worst day.

But we little know until tried how much of the uncontrollable there is in us, urging across glaciers and torrents, and up dangerous heights, let the judgement forbid as it may.

Chipmunks jump, and greensnakes slither. Rather burst than not be with her. Bluebirds fight, but bears are stronger. We've got fifty years or longer. Hoptoads hop, but hogs are fatter. Nothing else but Us can matter.

Going through tough times is a wonderful thing, and everybody should try it. Once

Leverage: don't make deals without it. Enhance