Quotes About Strength

We mess up sometimes. You haven't exactly thrown Him for a loop, you know. He can handle it.

Never lose hope. There is always a battle going on that you don't see.

Agnes Tattle was the only person he'd ever met who was strong enough to look life right in the eye and spit. It must be the mathematics in her background. Such courageous realism certainly didn't come from the study of English literature.

one bicycle, but even if we'd had another, I think

I had my yob periods. Nothing violent but certainly loutish. I think it's frustrated intelligence. Imagine that if you were really intelligent and everyone treated you as though you were stupid and no one tried to teach you anything -- the sort of deep subliminal rage that would get going in you. But then once it gets going, you make a strength out of what you know is your weakness, which is that you are undeveloped.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Terrorism is the war of the weak and war is the terrorism of the strong.

Whoever it was that first realized that a woman wronged is a dangerous animal, and I suspect he was a Neolithic half-ape, was immeasurably correct.

Well, the Romanies have been around for five thousand years, longer than any nation. And why? Because we know how to survive. The Aryans tried to kill us, the Persians, the Tatars, the Magyars, the Africans, the Germans, everybody. But we stay together, and we move on, and we keep one thing in mind, to survive, and that is our greatest secret.

Even if you cannot achieve much in the way of fitness, every little [bit] helps. The other guy might be getting tired too. If he has five seconds' worth of fight left in him and you have 10, you will win.

Martin Dugard

Just the hill and me. Just the challenge and me. Just my fears an me. Bring it on.

Error is a hardy plant: it flourisheth in every soil.

But you know, everybody who survived has an extraordinary story. Otherwise, he'd be dead.

Indeed, in his view, being difficult – 'singular and reserved, or whatever you may be pleased to call it' – was actually a necessity for those who wanted to achieve remarkable things.

We must learn to draw from misfortune the means of future strength.

His finest hour was the leadership of Britain when it was most isolated, most threatened and most weak; when his own courage, determination and belief in democracy became at one with the nation.

Of course', Churchill told Linlithgow, 'my ideal is narrow and limited. I want to see the British Empire preserved for a few more generations in its strength and splendour,' and he added, 'Only the most prodigious exertions of British genius will achieve this result.

There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs, they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.

truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.

my wife, Judith Johnson Smith, whose quiet courage inspires me; and our children, Alayne and Parker, who are, quite frankly, perfect.

By waiting and by calm you shall be saved, in quiet and in trust your strength lies. —Isaiah 30:15

When others were overcome by the heat, his hand would be "cooler than snow and more fragrant than musk".

A mighty fortress is our God,A bulwark never failing.Our helper He amid the floodOf mortal ills prevailing.