Quotes About Strength

In the beginning we were a group of nine. Three are gone, dead. There are six of us left. They are hunting us, and they won't stop until they've killed us all. I am Number Four. I know that I am next.

Your destiny can't be taken away no matter what happens.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.

Harapan adalah tiang yang menyangga dunia.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

It was natural for [Spartan women] to think and speak as Gorgo, the wife of Leonidas, is said to have done, when some foreign lady, as it would seem, told her that the women of Lacedaemon were the only women of the world who could rule men; 'With good reason,' she said, 'for we are the only women who bring forth men'.

Once being hard pressed in wrestling, and fearing to be thrown, he got the hand of his antagonist to his mouth, and bit it with all his force; and when the other loosed his hold presently, and said, "You bite, Alcibiades, like a woman." "No," replied he, "like a lion." Another

Being consulted again whether it were requisite to enclose the city with a wall, [Lycurgus] sent them word, 'The city is well fortified which hath a wall of men instead of brick'.

That which is chiefly the office of a general, to force the enemy into fighting when he finds himself the stronger, and to avoid being driven into it himself when he is the weaker...

For the first step towards victory undoubtedly is to gain courage.

Best rear no lion in your state, 'tis true; But treat him like a lion if you do.

The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.

Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure.

From our deepest wounds come our greatest gifts.

Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together.

Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.

I think the essential point is a weakness of faith.

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

For if the sacred liturgy holds first place in the life of the Church, then the Eucharistic Mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy, since it is the font of life that cleanses us and strengthens us to live not for ourselves but for God, and to be united to each other by the closest ties of love.