Quotes About Strength

Giving up on God and on oneself constitutes simultaneous surrender to the natural man.

While weak hope leaves us at the mercy of our moods and events, 'brightness of hope' produces illuminated individuals. Their luminosity is seen, and things are also seen by it!

And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them. (Ether 12:27.)

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory. - Jósef Pi?sudski

El orgullo del hermano mayor detesta la debilidad y se jacta de la fuerza. El quebrarse por dentro y la desesperación no se valoran, pero sí lucir bien y tener éxito. En Mateo 5, Jesús nos dice que los pobres de espíritu, los que lloran y los que tienen hambre y sed, son bendecidos. El hermano mayor piensa que nunca se supone que sea débil.

The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

That the War of Independence resulted in the strengthening, not the termination, of slavery was not an unexpected outcome for Southerners: protecting slavery had been the point of the war for them. It was the principal Southern political goal at every moment until slavery was destroyed.

mojo (moyo, a Kikongo word meaning something like "soul force").

No," mom says, looking at me in the eyes. "What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.

She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.

you thank your heavenly father for giving you strength to stand up to his trials and figure there must be a plan behind it all, a reason for so much pain and you just…go on.

It all comes back to one thing... brutality. Compel people into a position where they have to use the brute that's in them in order to live and the brute will waken all right. When the brute is naturally strong in a man - that's the man who becomes the leader of the pressgang. And there you have it. Where all is compulsion and enforcement, it's the bully that rules.

The only reason I am alive is because I could not die.

I remember thinking, "How does anyone survive something like this? And if they do, what kind of person comes out the other end?" I didn't know, but throughout that dark time of grief, sorrow, desolation, and complete despair, something in me seemed determined to carry on. Something would come up.

Neil S. Plakcy

I mean, if you give in when you're eighteen and a half, you'll give in for the rest of your life, don't you think?

We have a sanctuary in Christ, and He has equipped us with the armor of God. We

We already have all the power we need, because of our position in Christ.

As long as you show that you're willing to take it further than them, they'll tend to back off, whoever they may be.

Sometimes if you hold back on someone, they mistake your kindness for weakness. Sometimes you've got to go all out, to show people that you mean business.