Quotes About Strength

You might have heard that "fear" is the acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real. Or maybe you roll with the cheeky edition: Fuck Everything and Run. I prefer the more actionable version: Face Everything and Rise.

Marie G. McIntyre

June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.

Burn, or speak your mind. For the oak to untruss its passion it must explode as fire or leaves.

Giving birth is not a matter of pushing, expelling the baby, but of yielding, surrendering to birth energy.

One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.

This anthology is a testament to American Indian consciousness continuing to circulate, regardless of past or present genocidal attempts, whether cerebral, endemic, systematic, or otherwise.

I come from a long line of madwomen, and of this I am proud.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom.

All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.

What your mother left undone, women who are not your mother may do. Women who are not your lover love you.

Then she saw him in outline, standing in the doorway, his powerful figure filling the open space.

Suddenly he dug his heels into the horse's side with such strength that the animal reared back, neighing his pain. It was a sound which might have come from his own throat as with eyes unfocused he stole a final look at her, so distant.

If we will follow the Holy Spirit's leading by seeking to live a balanced, healthy lifestyle that includes appropriate amounts of work, exercise, ministry, rest, and play, He will keep us full of strength.

The weak ones are there to justify the strong.

What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar.

Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.

She said, "Only the weak are afraid to appear so.

Dominion won by fear and secured by fear was still sweeter than any that could be got another way.

Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do.

When fears are screaming in your ears, try to hear the whispers of your faith and run into that dark path. That is how you reach the paradise.

They use fear to control us, they control us to make us afraid. One more reason to be brave.

One must feel fear without allowing fear to control them.

Fear gives people their humanity. Fear of loss.