Quotes About Strength

Perhaps there is no shame in this, perhaps I can bear this, fight this. To give in but not give up. And projected back out behind him, toward the sea, Saul unable to say the name, just three simple words that seemed so inadequate, and yet they were all he had left to use.

And man is the greatest killer, the greatest hunter of them all. The whole world of nature knows man for the irresistible master. The roar of his gun, the cunning of his trap, the strength and agility of his arm place all else beneath him. Should man then be treated by nature differently from the other dominants, the army ants and the wasps? It

The look on her face in the empty lot—that blankness—and then, later, in the sessions, the warring of contempt, wildness, casual vulnerability, and vehemence, strength. That had laid him low. That had expanded until it hooked into the whole of him, no part of him not committed.

Perhaps my only real expertise, my only talent, is to endure beyond the endurable.

You can screw Nevada, Mess with Maine, Leave Hawaii in a puddle of pain. You can beat Virginia till she's down on the floor. But if you fuck with Tex, You'll be on your knees for sure!

The oaks stand - quite still - so still that the lichen loves them...such solace and solitude seventy-nine miles thick cannot be painted...it is necessary to stay in it like oaks to know it. (1884)

Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

It was held by General John B. Magruder, who skillfully improved its natural strength by artificial means, and there, on the ground memorable as the field of the last battle of the Revolution, in which General Washington compelled Lord Cornwallis to surrender, Magruder, with a small force, held for a long time the superior forces of the enemy in check.

A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.

It's a tough life, she'd said. "It's the little things that get us through the day.

Yield and you need not break. Bent, you can straighten. Emptied, you can hold. Torn, you can mend.

The sign of a great man is how you handle defeat. - Old Jack

My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life.

Christine is too independent. No matter how anxious she feels, she forces herself to face things alone. This tendency to go to the other extreme—to act as though she does not need anybody for anything—is called counterdependence, and is a strong indication of the presence of the Dependence lifetrap.

Resilience is not what happens to you. It's how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.

Rough waters are truer tests of leadership. In calm water, every ship has a good captain. —Swedish proverb

The most all people do wrong things in their lives but it was the ones who had the strength to admit to doing so that would trust.... you do the right thing, however hard. Otherwise, it turns back upon you. Always.

I mean, have you ever imagined the ocean is alive, and needs to tell us something important, and the only way it can talk is by making waves crash, and we just lounge there, drenched in cocoa butter, on towels with crappy novels and volleyballs, sipping spritzers, as the ocean uses all its strength to repeat the same warning over and over? (from the poem "The Berlin Mall")

Bad days come to an end.

No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)

If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982)

If you are lonely, please know you can find comfort . If you are discouraged, please know you can find hope . If you are poor in spirit, please know you can be strengthened . If you feel you are broken, please know you can be mended .

For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other religious history – perhaps like no other book in any religious history- and still it stands." Jeffrey R. Holland

Be a woman of Christ. Cherish your esteemed place in the sight of God. He needs you. This church needs you. The world needs you. A woman's abiding trust in God and unfailing devotion to things of the Spirit have always been an anchor when the wind and the waves of life were fiercest.