Quotes About Strength

an entrepreneur's ability to find strength when others want to run, hide, quit, or blame someone else for their failures.

You can't be scared, you do your thing, you hold your ground, you stand up tall, and whatever happens happens.

Music hadn`t always deepened my grief. For most of my sixteen years, it had healed my hurts, soothed them, given me a way to remember and the strength to move on.

Brunetti watched Cesco trying to decide whether to say something else, so he made himself look as much like an oak tree as possible: patient, motionless, secure.

The man looked to be about the same age as Paola, though he clearly had a harder time getting there...His nose was flat, as though it had once been broken, and his eyes were sad, as though his heart had been. He looked like a stevedore who wrote poetry.

If anything, the spirit that drove him now was fiercer, but there was no denying the diminishing powers of his body. He

The old die softly or the old die hard

If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. Then spit us out reborn.

I] thought of that line from The Iliad I love so much, about Pallas Athene and the terrible eyes shining.

For weeks, I'd been frozen, sealed-off; now, in the shower, I would turn up the water as hard as it would go and howl, silently. Everything was raw and painful and confusing and wrong and yet it was as if I'd been dragged from freezing water through a break in the ice, into sun and blazing cold.

I could do what I had to. I'd done it before: gone blank, pushed forward.

She was young still, and the chains had not yet grown tight around her ankles…Whatever was to be done, she would do it.

But strange and marvelous as she was, a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool, she was not at all the fragile creature one would ever have her seem. In many ways she was as cool and competent as Henry; tough-minded and solitary in her habits, and in many ways as aloof .

I don't want you to help me.' She raised her head and looked at me: her gaze hit me hard and sweet as a shot of morphine.

Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours.

It has been always a rule with me to go straight at everything. I think the best diplomacy is directness, and that the truest caution lies in courage.

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

Somebody may say, "But I may not be able to hold out." He is going to do that for you—He will hold you. His sheep are safe, my friend.

Righteousness is innocence that has been maintained in the presence of temptation.

Ei thi tawhta pasôna daihti eina vaw hnei pyly aw ei.

Marasaw palôh hâh lei bao chala, "Enga" reih khiah ma khizaw lia a sâhchai tlâ tah ei.

Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.

Mark Twain once said that true bravery isn't the absence of fear, but the ability to act in the face of fear.

Some people are naturally brave. Others, like me, learn to fake it. I still had no idea if faked bravery and real bravery were the same thing.