Quotes About Strength

She'd survived because the fire inside of her burned brighter than the fire(s) around her.

We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight…

An elementary rule concerning contracts is that you let it wait. You faced a fait accompli, and you can't do a deal on a fait accompli. I was able to wait until you were in a position where you couldn't simply get up and leave. But when you enter negotiations without this option Ã¢â'¬â€ the option of getting up without signing Ã¢â'¬â€ then you are automatically in a weak position.

I was born into this world without knowing what life was all about. Only power promised fulfillment in life, and I have pursued it--long enough to recognize that it's a false promise and that this road leads to nothing. But I tried. Even if we get no answers to our questions, it is the inalienable right of every living being to search for them--by all means, on all paths, and with all strength. What I did was only what I had a right to do.

Do you realize that Hitler wanted to the same thing as you?" John gasped. "What do you mean?" "To safeguard humanity's future, of course! That is the goal he was working for. He knew the world was limited in size that it could not be enough for all and that there must be a fight for space and natural resources. And he had understood that this struggle was natural, that the races had to prove themselves and that it was only this struggle that kept them strong.

Nature throws living beings into this world and they must survive. The weak will perish and the strong will thrive. That is the law of nature, the aristocratic principle of life itself. Nature knows no contraception it knows only overabundance and the destruction of that which is not capable of survival. Only those worthy of surviving, survive. That's the way nature wants

Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Submission comes from a position of weakness, acceptance from a position of strength.

Alexander (grinning): When Darius was scorching the earth, devastating villages and spoiling provisions, it drove me round the bend, but now indeed what have I to fear, when he gives me a battle to contend?

There's a strength in the way she carries herself, but she never seems to relax, never lets down her guard.

I am more than my scars.

If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches

There I lay, wearing dead people as armor against death.

If you're going through hell, keep going [as stolen from Winston S. Churchill]

Love is as strong as death, as hard as hell.

Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat...

I'm rediscovering my backbone, which is a good start.

It's our scars that make us who we are.

Ja sam više od svojih ožiljaka.

Blake is a ready-made patron saint for those wanting to elevate their marginality, dissent, and queerness into strength. The relative futility of Blake's battle during his lifetime make him all the more attractive. In the intertextual heritage of queer art, Blake has become an honorary icon.

Unbelief is an evil thing; nothing puts so great a price on precious Christ as faith does. It is certain that unbelief keeps love at a very low exercise; likewise, unbelief hinders the grace of mortification. I can hardly believe that a Christian under the practice of unbelief can attain the mortification of any lust because he cannot take hold of Him in whose strength only will lusts be mortified.