Quotes About Strength

Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.

In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.

From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.

Anyone can be happy when times are good; the richer experience is to be happy when times are not

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable.

When you push against the boundaries of experience into the twilight of the unknown, the Lord will strengthen you. The beauty of your eternal soul will begin to unfold.

The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.

Toughness is a skill. I don't think we're all born tough. You learn about toughness through your experience.

You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.

Drawing on the experience I have of now directing, to me, my one strength that I know is my ability to communicate with actors and therefore make characters really important.

Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

While my military experience reinforced in me the strength that I have, it also demonstrated to me that I have the ability and power to make a difference in people's lives.

Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

Let weakness learn meekness.