Quotes About Strength

people conducting themselves as the person God wants them to be in spite of the people, situations and circumstances that surround them.

Lacking sufficient courage ourselves, we borrow courage from courageous people and from our Higher Power, and it works.

Both must maintain their emotional independence in order to survive.

Behold divinity divine enough to abandon divinity. Behold majesty secure enough to proceed un-majestically. Behold strength strong enough to become weakness, goodness good enough to be unmindful of its reputation. Behold love plenteous enough to give and take not again.

After a cup of this stuff, he'd be out there plowing fields himself, probably with his bare hands.

Her heart, she had discovered in the last half year, was of durable stuff. You could test its mettle with a hammer.

A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours.

A woman's thoughts are always weapons. And all men are monsters in their hearts.

Tests make us stronger, and strength is power, and power is the point. We must pass all the tests we face.

It is unforgiving of weakness

Steel, speed, and stealth for a hit. Never spells. And sure as Hells never fire.

Passions are power. – Darth Malgus

For a moment, caught up in the aftereffects of his vision, Vader wondered what it would be like to face his Master in battle, to take his small, frail body in his hands, lift it from the ground, and…

The Elvish language had a word that perfectly expressed his feeling: Vaendin-thiil, which meant "fatigued by life's dark trials.

Fear was a tool used by the strong to cow the weak.

Vader completed his meditation and opened his eyes. His pale, flame-savaged face stared back at him from out of the reflective black transparisteel of his pressurized meditation chamber. Without the neural connection to his armor, he was conscious of the stumps of his legs, the ruin of his arms, the perpetual pain in his flesh. He welcomed it. Pain fed his hate, and hate fed his strength. Once, as a Jedi, he had meditated to find peace. Now he meditated to sharpen the edges of his anger.

Malgus knew it was folly. Empires and the men who ruled empires could not stay sharp when surrounded by comfort, by peace.

He'd said that the relationship between Sith apprentice and Master was symbiotic but in a delicate balance. An apprentice owed his Master loyalty. A Master owed his apprentice knowledge and must show only strength. But the obligations were reciprocal and contingent. Should either fail in his obligation, it was the duty of the other to destroy him. The Force required it. Since before the Clone Wars, Vader's Master had never shown anything but

The weak are found out and killed by the strong.

We are, all of us, always being tested, my friend. Tests make us stronger, and strength is power, and power is the point. We must pass all the tests we face… Or die in the effort.

Like a bridge over troubled waterI will lay me down.

Don't come crying to me, Stanley. Fight your own battles." Fight my own battles? I'm five!

Will you stand up an fight? he wondered bitterly. Or do you intend to remain on your knees for ever?

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.