Quotes About Strength

Tu procura no dejar que te conviertan –me guiñó el ojo–. Me gustas asi de pecadora.

You stay cool. You don't lose your head. And you know what? You should probably keep doing that—because then you won't lose your heart either.

I don't believe in angels, I believe in what I can do for myself

You must not have played chess in a while. The king is the weakest piece in the game." He gave Justin a level look. "The queen's the strongest." "What

you are my flame in the dark.

Dark times were ahead of us, but with his kiss still burning on my lips, I felt like I could do anything

We all have moments of weakness. It's how we recover from them that really counts.

I don't believe that," I told her. "I know what love is, Mom. I've had love that burns in every fiber of my being, that drives me to be a better person and empowers me through each moment of the day. If you'd ever had something like that, you'd hold on to it with every bit of strength you had.

Malicious or not, strong leaders always attract followers.

Hey, if that's what it takes. You and Sonya. I'll toss one of you ever each shoulder. Pretty manly, huh?

My mother was a voice of reason, a reminder that they had to stay focused and fully assess the situation. Her composure calmed everybody; her strong manner inspired them. This, I realized, was how a leader behaved.

El orgullo es lo único que me queda, dice Bao. Es lo único que tenemos. Están quitándonos todo lo demás.

Carter] shook it off. "Don't worry about it. We all have moments of weakness. It's how we recover from them that really counts." (Chapter 19)

You have a guardian angel." "I don't believe in angels," I told him. "I believe in what I can do for myself.

The more weakness the more falsehood; strength goes straight: every cannon ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked.

Power," as John Adams had written, "always thinks it has a great soul.

Men were forced to discard their overcoats because they lacked the strength to wear them," a staff officer noted. "Their hands are so numb that they have to help one another on with their equipment." Riflemen

Discipline," Washington had written in 1757, "is the soul of an army." Certainly

Known as Tiny to his troops, he had a skull the size of a medicine ball, with a pushbroom mustache and legs that extended like sycamore trunks from his khaki shorts.

At last the armies clashed at one strategic point, They slammed their shields together, pike scraped pike With the grappling strength of fighters armed in bronze And their round shields pounded, boss on welded boss, And the sound of struggle roared and rocked the earth. The Iliad, Book 4

There was nothing for it but obduracy, to soldier on even for those who were not soldiers. "How hard I have become," an American Red Cross volunteer told her diary in February. "Emotions which formerly would have wracked my soul leave me almost untouched. It's a hardness of survival.

The features of character are carved out of adversity.

You can't manufacture love: you can't build it back up, like a fire. You start out with a certain amount, and then you hope it is strong enough and lasting enough to sustain itself against the hard winters, and the assaults of time.

My Uncle Jimbo never challenged a man to a duel to defend his honor, but he did win a $20 bet by eating a bologna sandwich while sitting on a dead mule. My grandmother prayed a tornado away, and punched a city woman in the eye.