Quotes About Strength

Abraham Joshua Heschel said, "A religious person is one who suffers harm done to others . . . whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Divorce is always experienced as a failure. It threatens a person's self-image of being good, being loved, being valued." But, he adds, it is out of failure that a person often finds the inner strength to grow and attain major achievements in life. "A lot of people make a big contribution to society out of their own suffering," he says. "A crisis forces change.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.

Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.

I feel just like the boy who stubbed his toe–too damned badly hurt to laugh and too damned proud to cry!

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

I have been bent and broken but I hope into better shape.

Your "Gloria" lives within you.

I saw that vigil now as necessary, a prerequisite for my insides to harden and cure just like the willow of a cricket bat must cure to be ready for a lifetime of knocks.

A good surgeon needs courage for which a good pair of balls is a prerequisite

she found her greatness, at last, found it in her suffering. Once you have greatness, who needs anything else?

He had become my poster boy, a walking testament to how will and belief can make up for lack of muscle, how anger can overcome blindness.

Screw your courage to the sticking place." - Lady MacBeth

Men like him became stubborn with opposition, because their convictions were all they had.

In this upside down world, snarls are smiles, ugly is beautiful, and the crippled outwork the able bodied, but tears are the same.

Find your backbone, or be swallowed whole.

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.