Quotes About Strength

We are all of us blue babies. At critical seconds, we all lack necessary air.

No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.

True greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness comes when you are really tested, when you have taken some knocks, faced some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain.

Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.

Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls' most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

Magnetism is not like in the superhero movies. I couldn't pull a car toward myself, because a car weighs more than I do. I just ended up pulling myself to the car.

Geography is my strong subject," Ostin said. "Everything is your strong subject," Taylor said.

Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest. (The Walk - Chapter 19, Page 122

There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.

It's been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my mother was the roots with both feet planted firmly on terra quaking firma.

When we hate someone we make them more powerfull than they are.

It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

But more than brave, you have love. And love is brave.

It takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt.

They are like pythons in the jungle. The smallest child can crush a python egg. But let the snake hatch and grow and the python with squeeze and devour the child.

That which doesn't kill you only makes you stronger," Mike said. "Except bears. Bears will kill you.

we try to ease our pain with anger. But anger isn't strength. It only masks itself as strength. It's weakness. At its core, it's fear. Fear of facing what might be truth

Hard things don't always make life harder. It takes something hard to sharpen steel.

takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt.

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime.

They tried to bury us. They just didn't know we were seeds.