Quotes About Strength

Better to be the hunter than the hunted. Even if you're hunting yourself.

The bad news: surviving this will be the second worst experience of your life. The good news: the worst is already over.

You need shoving, not pushing.

when life suddenly changes and you're left picking up the pieces. She says it's actually how you pick up the pieces that defines you.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

As tough as she is, she wants to believe in something.

There are bright places, even in dark times. And if there isn't, you can be that bright place with infinite capacities.

But here's the thing- even if there aren't any aneurysms in there, these facts won't change: I will still be someone who watches; I will still be someone who is prepared and on the lookout, because at any moment the earth could stop spinning. I've lived through the worst thing that can ever happen to me, and I know firsthand what the world can do.

That's how she used to feel before any of this happened – strong and sturdy, like she could withstand a tornado.

You are a survivor, and as that unwelcome designation implies, your survival - your emotional survival - will depend on how well you learn to cope with your tragedy. The bad new: Surviving this will be the second worst experience of your life. The good news: The worst is already over.

Things become very simple when you have no choice, when there's nothing left for you but to endure as long as you can, and survive if you can.

Believe that God is strong enough to save your children, no matter how you fail.

The one encouragement we can always give our children (and one another) is that God is more powerful than our sin, and He's strong enough to make us want to do the right thing.

Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.

True power is expressed in quiet confidence; it was the sea's very calmness that epitomised its mighty force.

Il n'y a rien comme l'amour pour donner du courage aux jeunes gens.

She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.

Jean-Louis had never had a day's illness in his life. He was tall and as gnarled as an oak. The sun had baked his skin until it had the colour and toughness and stillness of a tree. With advancing years, he had lost his tongue. He now never spoke, considering such an activity pointless.

She [Sidonie Rougon] never spoke of her husband, nor of her childhood, her family, or her personal concerns. There was only one thing she never sold, and that was herself.

As if one killed by calculation! A person kills only from an impulse that springs from his blood and sinews, from the vestiges of ancient struggles, from the need to live and the joy of being strong.

Raising her arms, she defied Heaven. 'So,' she cried, 'you prefer your God to me? You think he is stronger than I am. You think he will love you better than I would? Ah, what a child you are! Do stop talking such twaddle. What we are going to do is go back to the garden together, and love each other, be happy and free, for that is life.

Her son would be incomparably handsome, good and powerful. He would be the expected Messiah; it is fortunate for humanity that all mothers have this pathetic faith, without it mankind would not have the ever-renascent strength to go on living.

It was a house of shadows, where the sunshine was filtered down to a guttering night-light strength between the laths of the window-shutters. (89)

Ne doutez pas de moi, laissez-moi la force de me vaincre.