Quotes About Strength

Everyone starts life with a fire in their soul; sadly most are snuffed out in the storms of life.

A person cannot shine light if he is afraid of the dark.

Don't confuse one leader's bluster for muster or another leader's meekness for weakness.

Weakness of skills can be overcome with strength of will.

Do not mistake a leader's meekness for weakness.

That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.

It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.

All human beings are alike in seeking happiness. Where they differ is in the objects from which they seek it and the strength they have to reach the objects they desire.

the multiple angry assaults on the "traditional family" are the rotten fruit of Christians corrupting the beauty and strength of the "covenantal family" of the Bible into the hated "hierarchical family" of the stereotypes so loved by feminists and others. Still

Behind every civilization lies a vision and a worldview, and none is greater or more lasting than the strength of its vision.

To most people at the time it was unthinkable that religion might ever not be what it was then. However, Bryce mused, if religion in America were ever to lose its strength and authority, the result would be "the completest revolution of all." The strongest bonding in American society would have gone, and unbounded freedom would run amok and work to cause its own undoing.

If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt. If doubt is eventually justified, we were believing what clearly was not worth believing. But if doubt is answered, our faith has grown stronger. It knows God more certainly and it can enjoy God more deeply.

I smiled in my weakness.

Not long ago I learned from a certain person in considerable detail about the worthlessness of your character. All the same, it is you who have given me strength, you who have put the rainbow of revolution in my breast. It is you who have given an object to my life.

A sensation of helplessness, as if it were utterly impossible to go on living. Painful waves beat relentlessly on my heart, as after a thunderstorm the white clouds frantically scud across the sky. A terrible emotion — shall I call it an apprehension — wrings my heart only to release it, makes my pulse falter, and chokes my breath. At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.

Los cobardes temen hasta la felicidad. Pueden herirse incluso con el algodón.

Far from it, I felt convinced that their reprimands were without doubt voices of human truth speaking to me from eternities past; I was obsessed with the idea that since I lacked the strength to act in accordance with this truth, I might already have been disqualified from living among human beings.

Me pregunto cuál fué el punto de inflexión. ¿Qué fue lo que me decidió a seguir viviendo, lo que me otorgó esa fuerza necesaria para hacer algo que los demás dan por hecho?

It was her love which gave me the strength to make all the rest of the calls, this time without once weeping.

When a person falls to the very depths of suffering—where he can find no escape—he is somehow able to find new courage.

This was the first time in my life that I had become aware of the existence of the wall of despair built of all the many things in the world before which human strength is helpless.

Reippaasti eteenpäin, älkää menettäkö toivoa.

Zay?f insanlar mutluluktan bile korkar. ?plikle bile yaralan?rlar. Bazen mu?tluluk da insanlar? yaralayabilir.