Quotes About Strength

I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.

As sweet as it feels, I can't lie here forever curled up in a big ball of fuck-the-world.

True confidence is allowing yourself to feel the full spectrum of your emotions. Sometimes you may feel strong, loud and powerful. At other times, you might feel quiet, insecure and scared. All of these feelings are you, and all of them are absolutely okay.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

it will not be enough for the mind to be illumined by the Spirit of God unless the heart is also strengthened and supported by his power. In this matter the Schoolmen go completely astray, who in considering faith identify it with a bare and simple assent arising out of knowledge, and leave out confidence and assurance of heart.

Men lose their birthrights for a mess of pottage only if they stop using the gifts given them by God for their betterment. By prayer. That is the first and greatest gift. Use the gift of prayer. Ask for strength of mind, and a clear vision. Then sense. Use your sense. … Think long and well. By prayer and good thought you will conquer all enemies.

Prayer is only another name for good, clean, direct thinking. When you pray, think well what you are saying, and make your thoughts into things that are solid. In that manner, your prayer will have strength, and that strength shall become part of you, mind, body, and spirit.

It was frightening and wonderful to surrender to the wind's power.

A troubled life beats having no life at all

Going at it alone had been my badge of honor. How foolish. I confused silence with strength.... Shutting out others is weak and grossly unfair to those around us.

My advice to myself is simple. Run with MS, not away from it. That race from existing illness cannot be won. See the truth. We move forward with grace when the wind is at our backs.

Not many men ever saw Washington disturbed by bad news; it was much more likely to have the opposite effect on him, acting like a goad that brought out the best in his character, stiffening his resolve to win against odds that would have defeated a less resolute man before he began.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Experience had taught me that warthogs who tough it out are better in combat than your natural gazelles.

philosophical tenet basic to SEALdom. That concept is: if you set your mind on a goal and your spirit is the spirit of a Warrior, the word impossible DOES NOT EXIST.

To the one who makes Zeus look like a tiny spark.

Ordinarily I believe that I have as high a spirit as the average man, and as solid a resolution; but when one has been dragged through the Valley of Humiliation, and plunged, again and again, into the Waters of Bitterness and Privation, a man can be constrained to a course of action of which, in his happier moments, he would have deemed himself incapable. I know this of my own knowledge.

I will always try To hold my head up to the sky If only just to let you know That straight from my heart I still miss you so.

Let this hell be our heaven.

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

A man is not born to run away." Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1921).*