Quotes About Strength

She rose and she remembered, remembered and rose, until she had gone too far for fear to snatch her back.

Only the weak blame their past for the faults they find in their present; the strong acknowledge the effects of their past and then move on from it. We are all free to choose whether we will be weak or strong.

What you are, all that you are, shows in everything about you—your honesty, your compassion, your courage, your intelligence, and most of all your love.

The Rubbish Picker's Wife

she started taking her coffee and Bible with her to the back porch first thing in the mornings. She hoped the quiet time while the children still slept would give her the optimistic attitude she needed to tackle the day ahead. She was a little surprised at how easily she fell back into her old routine and amazed that with every faltering prayer and every moment she spent with the Word, she felt more peace and strength filling her.

And narurally a car

Det gives alltid något bättre än döden

and we do decide for ourselves when it will hurt.

I was perfectly calm, I was the anchor of the world.

Du bestemmer sjøl når det skal gjøre vondt.

The paper was folded twice without a speck on it and bore a note in his handwriting: I cannot go on any longer. I was sure that was something we understood, both Jesper and I, that he could not go on any longer, but what it was he could not go on with we had no idea, because he was as strong as an ox and could work harder and longer than anyone else I have ever known.

One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Oh,lift me as a wave,a leaf,a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life!I bleed!

Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number Shake your chains to earth like dew We are many, they are few

No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.

The secret strength of things Which governs thought, and to the infinite dome Of Heaven is as a column, rests on thee, And what were thou and Earth and Stars and Sea If to the human mind's imaginings Silence and solitude were Vacancy?

Men of England, heirs of Glory, Heroes of unwritten story, Nurslings of one mighty Mother, Hopes of her, and one another; Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you- Ye are many — they are few

One too like thee: tameles, and Swift, and proud.

Yet if thou wilt, as 'tis destiny of trodden worms to writhe till they are dead, put forth thy might.

I Fall upon the thorns of life....

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Still water does not only run deep. It runs dangerously.

Well they were going to have to do a whole lot better than this if they wanted us Creeds to feel bad. If they thought they could hurt me or dad just by messing with my head at a tryout and cutting me from the team they had another thing coming. If there is one thing we Creeds knew how to succeed at, it was failure.