Quotes About Strength

Gertie reached over and patted my hand. "It always feels better when someone understands that you're standing in a shit storm holding a broken umbrella." That pretty much summed it up.

Fortitude was always to be one of the great virtues for Jane Austen.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength.

She could still be. She could still be a mom and a wife, and there were still things she could be from bed. She could still find joy in her children. She could study and learn.

I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.

There is a little dull ache for Oblomov and his dreams. Man does not live by bread alone, not even by the most wholesome bread punctually served. There is dream-stuff as well as bread-stuff. Sometimes man's strength is to sit still.

He dies because he is so holy, that he may give his holiness, his strength, his life, just at the moment it is holiest, to his people.

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I feel a certain kinship with them. They don't compromise and they're not easy to know." -Owen d'Arcy

Most women run from danger like mice from a cat. You turn into a lion and take whatever comes. [Aurelia as seen by her brother.]

I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken

The Titans were gone. They had clashed their last.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.

Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls.

It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.

Emma, Emma, Emma," I said, wishing I could somehow teach her to take the smaller blows of life in her stride.

we were living and working in harmony, supporting each other, participating in each other's interests, despite the disparity of our chosen subjects, despite attempts to divide us and despite the inevitable difficulties of Stephen's worsening disability. We were very happy. We both gained confidence and courage from the strength of our mutual resolve and from our trust in each other.

In other words, I am the Brunette Who Keeps Her Head.

sit on the craggy cliffs of Ballyhock to the waves crashing on the beach. Strong. Powerful. Deadly. A combination so familiar to me it brings me comfort.

Iwatch from where I sit on the craggy cliffs of Ballyhock to the waves crashing on the beach. Strong.