Quotes About Strength

But no one is strong at night; no one can fight alone; no success is achieved without a helper.

The worthy attendant said: Take heart, my lord!

Rise against what is before you!

Do not build your tomb out of ruins, (Using) what had been made for what is to be made. Behold, the king is lord of joy, You may rest, sleep in your strength, Follow your heart, through what I have done, There is no foe within your borders.

Ladies suffer like maidservants.

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

Sadness is what holds our bones in place.

Go into hard things quickly, eagerly, then retreat.

None of us have ever asked the men for anything, Agata states. Not a single thing, not even for the salt to be passed, not even for a penny or a moment alone or to take the washing in or to open a curtain or to go easy on the small yearlings or to put your hand on the small of my back as I try, again, for the twelfth or thirteenth time, to push a baby out of my body.

On je heroj po svom juna?kom ''pogledu na svijet''.

I to je baš bilo ono divno u toj stvari: stajati u katastrofi uz jednog ?ovjeka, koji je smion, a ima iza sebe sve i obra?unao je sa svim! S takvom jednom snagom, koja se zanosi njegovom vlastitom snagom, dalo bi se stvarati!

Dajte nam tisu?u ljudi, tisu?u karaktera!

Hrasta se kloni, pod bukvu se skloni.

Never eat more than you can lift.

Life went on. No matter what happened, life went on, inexorably, callously, it might seem, to those in grief. But somehow, in this continuity, there were the seeds of comfort.

Perhaps that had been the secret of Miss Davis's strength, she thought suddenly. She went at her own pace, and had time to relish all the lovely natural things in Springbourne and thereabouts. And when the occasion arose, that happiness, fed by inner serenity, could succor the weak and give, as Susan could so poignantly recall, strength and heart to those who needed it.

Head up, back like a ramrod, Dotty faced her solicitor. Tears were coursing down her papery old cheeks and splashing unchecked upon the fur coat. But, through the tears, Dotty's expression was one of utter triumph.

Courage, her mother had once told her, was not simply the fact that you weren't scared of anything.. it was being scared, and doing whatever it was anyway. Courage was dealing with your fears, and not letting them rule you.

There's something about putting words on a page in private that makes me feel powerful in public.

Good humor pokes fun at the powerful — not the weak.

Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.

Pain is a companion, not a master.

But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'