Quotes About Strength

Before she came here, she'd thought she could be independent. Now, she knew she could -- but only if she had the help of others and was able to help them in return.

if you're hella smart, like Hawking or the other Roosevelt, maybe you can get away with not being able to use your body.

Surface beauty, blond hair, blue eyes is always easy to recognize. But if someone is braver, stronger, smarter, that's hard to see.

Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley

I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a lot of scars.

Carrying little Kunta in his strong arms, he walked to the edge of the village, lifted his baby up with his face to the heavens, and said softly, "Fend kiling dorong leh warrata ka iteh tee." (Behold—the only thing greater than yourself.)

Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

she was simply grateful for this wise, loving mentor who could take one look into her eyes, see all the turmoil, sift through the hidden wreckage and somehow manage to inspire strength and good from some reserve Maggie hadn't even known existed.

People have a capacity to keep going even when their world has been shattered. We all long for connection, for affirmation that our lives matter.

Most abhor Wallowing with the Weak yet fear Strutting with the Strong

Strength in someone is not defined by the way they fall down, but the way they get up

In life's most difficult situations, it is our capacity to cope and personal resiliency that are put to the ultimate test. It's then that the freedom to choose our attitude takes center stage. To exercise this freedom effectively, however, we must be able to view any given situation from different vantage points. We must know we are and be flexible and courageous enough to make a shift when necessary, even if it means moving away from what is expected or considered "normal.

The supreme quality of great men is the power of resting. Anxiety, restlessness, fretting are marks of weakness. —J. R. SEELEY

The supreme quality of great men is the power of resting. Anxiety, restlessness, fretting are marks of weakness.

Christ and we against the world;" "Christ in the world's power, and we left alone:" such, in brief, was the difference between the two sifting seasons. The results of the sifting process were correspondingly diverse. In the one case, it separated between the sincere and the insincere; in the other, it discovered weakness even in the sincere.

This theory, then, is in the first place based on an erroneous assumption--viz., that abstinence from things lawful is intrinsically a higher sort of virtue than temperance in the use of them. This is not true. Abstinence is the virtue of the weak, temperance is the virtue of the strong.

He lays on Peter: "When thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren." Jesus expects the frail disciple to become strong in grace, and so able and willing to help the weak. He cherishes this expectation with respect to all, but specially in regard to Peter, assuming that the weakest might and ought eventually to become the strongest; the last first, the greatest sinner the greatest saint; the most foolish the wisest, most benignant, and sympathetic of

the new world across the Atlantic, with its great, powerful, populous nation, rivaling England in wealth and strength, grown from a small band of Puritan exiles who loved religious liberty better than country, and sought refuge from despotism in the savage wildernesses of an unexplored continent.

When this disciple was brought by his brother Andrew into the presence of his future Master, Jesus, we are told, "beheld him and said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas"--Cephas meaning in Syriac, as the evangelist explains, the same which Petros signifies in Greek. The penetrating glance of Christ discerned in this disciple latent capacities of faith and devotion, the rudiments of ultimate strength and power.

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible in their consciousness of being right.

you can lose more than you thought possible and still grow back, stronger than anyone imagined.

A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't.