Quotes About Strength

but just beneath the bell was a small scarlet plaque bearing the name of the club and the legend ALIS VOLAT PROPRIIS. "'She flies with her own wings,'" I translated.

Tis a hard thing for a child to know she isn't wanted. It gets into her blood and bones until she knows that she must always find her own way, for none will smooth her path. But that sort of thing makes a woman strong, you know.

tracing the letters of the motto. ALIS VOLAT PROPRIIS. She flies with her own wings.

You rise from your bed every day on two strong legs and can think only to complain that someone once spoke harshly to you.

We looked like a girl gang that would have the Queen as our leader, all low heels and no-nonsense curls.

the scars were commentary to his courage,

Fecklessness! We are never feckless," I told her coldly. "We are full to the brim with feck.

Because she doesn't apologize for anything. She had a rotten start in life, but she's made the best of it. She lives on her own terms. She knows who she is and what she wants, and she does what she is good at. And she has a good time doing it.

I am usually an excellent sleeper. My ability to take my rest no matter how insalubrious the circumstances—along with a sound stomach and excellent legs—accounts for the success of my travels through varied and demanding parts of the world.

Be brave. You have everything you need," I murmured to no one in particular. "Everything indeed." Excelsior!

There are times when it is entirely safe to show one's vulnerability, to roll over and reveal the soft underbelly beneath. But there are other times when pain must be borne without a murmur, when the pain is so consuming that if you give in to it, even in the slightest, you have lost everything.

He cupped the back of her head with one large hand and kissed her, slowly, sweetly, as if he were courting her again. When he pulled away, he wasn't surprised to find the tears that had stood unshed in her eyes were gone. He had always said Delilah Drummond was a force of nature. She had swept into his life with all the impact of a hurricane, and he had never entirely recovered from the first time she had looked up into his eyes and given him her slow, inviting smile.

You can, and you will. Women are every bit as capable of killing as men. And you have advantages that men do not. You are all attractive young women, and your appearance means men underestimate you. You will use this to your advantage.

ALIS VOLAT PROPRIIS. "'She flies with her own wings,'" I translated.

If stubbornness were water, I could sail on you to the ends of the earth.

I appreciate your courage in coming in here like this. Truly. I expected some ridiculous, theatrical caper, and instead you're taking what's coming to you like a man.

I have seen enough of the world to know that women can scratch and claw and fight just as fiercely as men for what they want. Perhaps more.

It can be a thankless and tiresome task, always being the person who holds the world together," I said gently.

am the woman who knows twenty ways to kill you and all of them with pain," I told her with an answering smile. "Now, take your carpetbag and your decaying mother and leave. If you come here again, I will not be answerable for my actions.

but I have clawed back some shreds of decency and dignity and I will not have them taken from me again.

You have suffered a terrible blow, but you shall recover. You are young and strong, and you will feel this pain acutely because as yet in your life you have not suffered much. But you must believe me when I tell you that this will be blunted, the edge will not cut so deep after a while. You will enjoy life again, and you will laugh and love and weep for others.

He must have broken dozens of hearts in his day, for even now he reminded me of nothing so much as a magnificently grizzled old lion. He might be winding down, but life was not yet finished with him.

It strengthens the womb. It is given to women who are in danger of miscarrying so they can retain the child," he explained.

Some things are purified and strengthened by trial, others destroyed.