Quotes About Strength

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which "bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things," which "thinks no evil."

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone.

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

to be defenseless did not mean to be without honor.

Its quietness was the quietness of strength. And the eyes were those of one who had walked through many a dark valley without flinching.

Zerbrechliche Herzen sind fürs Schaufenster gut, nicht aber für den Kampf gegen das Böse.

Madeleine K. Albright

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness!

If you're trapped in a room, and nobody is coming to save you, what can you do? You have to bang on the walls and break the windows. You have to climb out and save yourself. It's obvious, Li-ling, that crying doesn't help a person live.

Her mother, she thought, had all the attributes of the famous proverb: one who thrives in calamity but perishes in soft living.

Evidently it was very easy to fall if one had already fallen.

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

I feel like I could eat the world raw.

We are sorry, we are sorry. Sorry you were caught, I said. Sorry that you thought I was weak, but you were wrong.

Circe, he says, it will be all right. It is not the saying of an oracle or a prophet. ... He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what is means to be alive.

Then I learned that I could bend the world to my will, as a bow is bent for an arrow. I would have done that toil a thousand times to keep such power in my hands.

They do not care if you are good. They barely care if you are wicked. The only thing that makes them listen is power.

He did not fear ridicule, he had never known it.

He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.