Quotes About Strength

Life's challenges aren't supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

His eyes flashed. "Don't be. I meant what I said about setting this muthafucka ablaze if anyone hurts my mama." Lexi gasped. "Q!

enough, but when they tag-team me and Marcus, we're no

Le propre des hommes forts n'est pas d'ignorer les hésitations et les doutes qui sont le fond commun de la nature humaine, mais seulement de les surmonter plus rapidement.

I'm doing the best I can. Getting old, that's what it is. I'll be fifty-three at the feast of Saint Michael. I'm no longer as strong as you are, young sirs,' said the ferryman.

You know what the common people are like,' said Artevelde; 'they never know their own strength till the moment for using it has passed.

Gracias, Señor, Dios mío, por haberme dejado el odio. Es la única fuerza que me sostiene.

Nevertheless, as Terray declared later, nothing would ever equal those first desperate days when he put forth every ounce of his courage, strength and resolution.

Yes! A fierce and savage wind tore at us. We were on top of Annapurna! 8,075 meters, 26,493 feet.

If it be true, as I believe, that humanity is worth just as much as the sum total of latent heroism which it contains, then we may declare that humanity was never stronger nor more exemplary than now and that it is at this moment reaching one of its highest points and capable of braving everything and hoping everything. And it is for this reason that, despite our present sadness, we are entitled to congratulate ourselves and to rejoice.

Why not admit that it is not our paramount duty to weep with all those who are weeping, to suffer with all who are sad, to expose our heart to the passer-by for him to caress or stab? Tears and suffering and wounds are helpful to us only when they do not discourage our life.

since the days of the great martyrs, that woman was ready with the same gift of self, the same patience, the same sacrifices, the same greatness of soul and was about—less perhaps in blood than in tears, for it is always on her that sorrow ends by falling—to prove herself the rival and the peer of man.

If this world is a poem, it is not because we see the meaning of it at first but on the strength of its chance occurrences and paradoxes.

Love entails a beyond oneself, the very beyond of the false desire of possession...At the mystery: how one can be non-self with all of one's strength.

Does not love consist precisely in the establishment of the mirror relation?...It would then be necessary to say that love is not an illusoon, but...actual alienation. The error lies in believing that it is only an error...The mystery: how one can be non-self with all of one's strength.

Cuando uno cuenta los naufragios es porque no se ahogó.

Reírse un poquito del dolor hace al dolor un poco más pequeño.

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

Everyone's broken, one way or another.

Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

awakened her.

if a man ain't got the heart inside, it don't make no difference how big around the chest he measures.

he had avoided the full brunt of danger and still retained his dignity. And