Quotes About Strength

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Men don't cry but their eyes just take bath sometimes

I like stubborn, wily survivors, and wish I could be one myself. So the next day I walked to his office, to extend my appreciation of his doggedness and to wish him a joyful time of it.

Bir yaÅŸa gelmeden hayat?n ne kadar uzun olduÄŸunu anlam?yorsun. Her ÅŸeyinin bittiÄŸiniz san?yorsun ama bitmiyor, uzun süre bitmiyor. bedeninin hayatta kalmak için ne kadar az güce ihtiyac? olduÄŸunu anlam?yorsun, vücudun sana inat ölmeyi reddediyor.

I was only rarely called upon to say anything in the open battlefield, although at times Emma looked accusingly at me and made me feel that I might have offered more support had I been of a less spineless constitution

Soy optimista: los gobiernos crecientemente desastrosos que he visto desde que tengo uso de razón -escribió [Castillo] en 1982 en respuesta a una pregunta acerca de si vivía de la literatura-, me han hecho entender a Nietzsche: lo que no me mata me hace fuerte. Y si el dolor y la desgracia capaz de soportar un hombre son la medida de su fuerza, mi pueblo y yo somos invulnerables.

I must admit that you fascinate me, Superior. Your life would seem to be entirely unbearable. And yet you fight so very, very hard to stay alive. With every weapon and stratagem. You simply refuse to die." "I am ready to die." Glokta returned his gaze, like for like. "But I refuse to lose." ~Bayaz and Glokta

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth. Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.

Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other. The greater more creative powers with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion sufficient enough to love and save each other.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.

Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words of others, but to give birth to their own poetic voices and to hold history accountable for the catastrophes rearranging their lives.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action. It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently paralyze any dreams they may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.

Your tears are muscles, hinged on wings lunar and solar. Your touch: life and death. (from poem Angel of Mercy)

I mostly owe my success to my mother and have always drawn inspiration from her strong personality.

Only Boiled Seeds are afraid of failure.

I think I am very brave, upon the whole. If danger comes near my dwelling, I suppose I shall shudder.

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure, some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.