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Quotes About Strength

To be alive??is Power.
~ Emily Dickinson
Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.
~ Emily Dickinson
If your Nerve, deny you— Go above your Nerve— He can lean against the Grave, If he fear to swerve— That's a steady posture— Never any bend Held of those Brass arms— Best Giant made— If your Soul seesaw— Lift the Flesh door— The Poltroon wants Oxygen— Nothing more—
~ Emily Dickinson
I took my Power in my Hand -- And went against the World -- 'Twas not so much as David -- had -- But I -- was twice as bold -- I aimed by Pebble -- but Myself Was all the one that fell -- Was it Goliath -- was too large -- Or was myself -- too small?
~ Emily Dickinson
You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!
~ Emily Dickinson
Who never lost, are unprepared
~ Emily Dickinson
To fight aloud is very brave, But gallanter, I know, Who charge within the bosom, The cavalry of woe.
~ Emily Dickinson
Bless God, he went as soldiers, His musket on his breast— Grant God, he charge the bravest Of all the martial blest! Please God, might I behold him In epauletted white— I should not fear the foe then— I should not fear the fight!
~ Emily Dickinson
If I wasn't a perfect woman, I'd bust you in the nose.
~ Emily Dickinson
Bind me-I still can sing- Banish-my mandolin Strikes true within- Slay-and my Soul shall rise Chanting to Paradise- Still thine.
~ Emily Dickinson
Fate slew him, but he did not drop; She felled -- he did not fall -- Impaled him on her fiercest stakes -- He neutralized them all. She stung him, sapped his firm advance, But, when her worst was done, And he, unmoved, regarded her, Acknowledge him a man.
~ Emily Dickinson
And if, indeed, I fail, At least to know the worst is sweet. Defeat means nothing but defeat, No drearier can prevail!
~ Emily Dickinson
I can wade grief, Whole pools of it, I 'm used to that. But the least push of joy Breaks up my feet, And I tip—drunken. Let no pebble smile, 'T was the new liquor,— That was all! Power is only pain, Stranded, through discipline, Till weights will hang. Give balm to giants, And they 'll wilt, like men. Give Himmaleh, They 'll carry him!
~ Emily Dickinson
I took my power in my hand. And went against the world; 'T was not so much as David had, But I was twice as bold. I aimed my pebble, but myself Was all the one that fell. Was it Goliath was too large, Or only I too small?
~ Emily Dickinson
I've got a Tomahawk in my side but that don't hurt me much.
~ Emily Dickinson
If your Nerve, deny you— Go above your Nerve— He can lean against the Grave, If he fear to swerve— That's a steady posture— Never any bend Held of those Brass arms— Best Giant made— If your Soul seesaw— Lift the Flesh door— The Poltroon wants Oxygen— Nothing more –
~ Emily Dickinson
My Life had stood-- a Loaded Gun
~ Emily Dickinson
If your never deny you, go above your nerve.
~ Emily Dickinson
Your sweetness intimidates.
~ Emily Dickinson
A un cuore in pezzi Nessuno s'avvicini Senza l'alto privilegio Di avere sofferto altrettanto.
~ Emily Dickinson
I have not told my garden yet, Lest that should conquer me; I have not quite the strength now To break it to the bee.
~ Emily Dickinson
Wenn Dein Mut sich Dir verweigert – geh' über Deinen Mut hinweg.
~ Emily Dickinson
I took my power in my hand And went against the world;
~ Emily Dickinson
If your Nerve, deny you – Go above your Nerve –
~ Emily Dickinson