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Quotes About Strength

Don't yield! Keep up your courage! The same sun looks down on all of us!
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
~ Einstein
As long as we lean on anything outside ourselves for support, we are going to be insecure. Most of us try to find support by leaning on all sorts of things - gold, books, learning, sensory stimulation - and if these things are taken away, we fall over. To the extent that we are dependent on these external supports, we grow weaker and more liable to upsets and misfortune.
~ Eknath Easwaran
I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, comrade?
~ Elaine Brown
What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened.... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues.
~ Eleanor H. Porter
What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened.... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his REAL self that can dare and do and win out!... The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.... People
~ Eleanor H. Porter
What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened.... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his REAL self that can dare and do and win out!...
~ Eleanor H. Porter
What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened.... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his REAL self that can dare and do and win out!... The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town....
~ Eleanor H. Porter
He was her life support and she didn't want to let go for fear of drowning.
~ Electa Rome Parks
The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It's to survive as yourself, undiminished.
~ Elia Kazan
Savor powerlessness, after power, in every phase that matches it precisely; replace every old triumph with the new defeat; strengthen yourself on your weakness; win yourself back when so very lost.
~ Elias Canetti
Meekness, then, was not weakness but relying fully on Gods power as Moses had.
~ Elias Chacour
Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.
~ Elie Wiesel
Bite your lips, little brother...Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now...Wait. Clench your teeth and wait...
~ Elie Wiesel
This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.
~ Elie Wiesel
A man can laugh while he suffers.
~ Elie Wiesel
Man's strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil?
~ Elie Wiesel
But now, I no longer pleaded for anything. I was no longer able to lament. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.
~ Elie Wiesel
But now, I no longer pleaded for anything. I was no longer able to lament. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man. Without love or mercy. I was nothing but ashes now, but I felt myself to be stronger than this Almighty to whom my life had been bound for so long. In the midst of these men assembled for prayer, I felt like an observer, a stranger.
~ Elie Wiesel
Musíme se vzbouÃ…â"¢it proti boh?m a Ã…â"¢íkat: Chcete mi odepÃ…â"¢ít Å¡tÄ›stí? Tak dobÃ…â"¢e, ukousnu si ho poÃ…â"¢ádné sousto! To je tváÃ…â"¢í v tváÃ…â"¢ utrpení jediná platná odpov??.
~ Elie Wiesel
We were the masters of nature, the masters of the world. We had transcended everything—death, fatigue, our natural needs. We were stronger than cold and hunger, stronger than the guns and the desire to die, doomed and rootless, nothing but numbers, we were the only men on earth. At
~ Elie Wiesel
Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. When Adam and Eve deceived You, You chased them from paradise. When You were displeased by Noah's generation, You brought down the Flood. When Sodom lost Your favor, You caused the heavens to rain down fire and damnation. But look at these men whom You have betrayed, allowing them to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? They pray before You! They praise Your name! "All
~ Elie Wiesel
I remember a young Hungarian Jew, his shoulders stooped like an old man's, who confessed to some infraction so as to be beaten in his uncle's stead. I am young, he said, and stronger than he. He was young but no less weak. He did not survive the beating
~ Elie Wiesel
And why do you pray, Moishe?" I asked him. "I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.
~ Elie Wiesel