Quotes About Strength

Affliction strengthens the vigor of our soul, whereas happiness weakens it.

The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.

Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.

Only a true weakling is capable of true courage.

The weak fear happiness itself.

Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Happiness is not being afraid.

Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.

Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.

It takes a lot of courage to be happy (after the death of a spouse), but I've got courage, so I think I will be happy again.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you.

Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

Oh, this happiness is strong stuff.

If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness.

No man can smile in the face of adversity and mean it.