Quotes About Strength

If you want things to go your way, being smart and being strong are helpful, but you still have to work your ass off. Ways and means plus determination.

Bravery isn't the absence of fear. It's the ability to still function when fear overtakes you.

Bravery isn't the absence of fear. It's the ability to still function when fear overtakes you. 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.

We need to reclaim that word. And pussy, too. Why is calling someone a pussy equal to calling them weak? Pussies can take any penis you throw at them, pump out babies, and last a lifetime without needing erectile dysfunction pills. They're tough and resilient and provide pleasure for those who own them and those who want to use them. We need to take pussy back. It should be a compliment. Someone is brave or strong, they should be called a pussy.

I'm a grown woman, and I can fend for myself. Now help me put on my pants.

You can't be mentally fit unless you're physically fit.

It's the obligation of all writers to shoulder up against the wall of the permissible and shove . Writers must shove no matter how large the obstacle and without concern for the strength of those pushing back from the other side. This shoving is made more difficult by the fact that those pushing back are very often the same shovers who moved the wall to where it now stands--they nudged it forward as far as they could stomach it, and cannot tolerate a millimeter more.

Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.

Hearken, my believing reader. What is the cause of your weakness? Is it not because the fountain of life is little used? Is it not because you are resting on old experiences, and not daily gathering new manna—daily drawing new strength from Christ?

We may be very sure that men fall in private long before they fall in public. They are backsliders on their knees long before they backslide openly in the eyes of the world. Like Peter, they first disregard the Lord's warning to watch and pray; and then, like Peter, their strength is gone, and in the hour of temptation they deny their Lord. The world takes notice of their fall, and scoffs loudly. But the world knows nothing of the real reason.

Esté preparado para la enemistad de las puertas del infierno. Póngase toda la armadura de Dios (Ef. 6). De la torre de David colgaban mil escudos (Cnt. 4:4), listos para el uso del pueblo de Dios. Las armas de nuestra guerra son espirituales y han sido usadas por millones de pobres pecadores como nosotros, y nunca han fallado.

La fe es el engranaje con la cual gira la victoria. El éxito depende enteramente de la fe.

Existem duas mãos que nos ajudam na escalada para o céu. A mão de nossa fé agarra-se ao nosso Salvador; e a mão misericordiosa de nosso Salvador, plena de redenção, segura-nos com firmeza. Nossa mão agarra-se a Ele debilmente, e com facilidade se solta; mas a mão dEle segura-nos de forma poderosa e irresistível.

Vivir la vida de una fe cotidiana en el Hijo de Dios y tomar de su plenitud cada día, la gracia y las fuerzas prometidas que tiene reservadas para su pueblo, es el gran secreto de la santificación progresiva.

Lord, Give me the strength not to bitch slap this woman.

Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough to survive it.

it is quite possible to break a bow by 'shooting' it without an arrow.

The quantity of energy required to break a given cross-section of a material defines its 'toughness', which is nowadays more often called its 'fracture energy' or 'work of fracture'.

Resilience may be defined as 'the amount of strain energy which can be stored in a structure without causing permanent damage to it'.

High-quality swords are expected to be able to recover, elastically, after they have been bent so that the tip touches the hilt.

It is necessary to avoid confusion between the strength of a structure and the strength of a material.

Temper [is] a weapon that we hold by the blade.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

Might — it is wrongly believed — makes right.