Quotes About Strength

A parent's love is whole no matter how many times divided.

People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

It is a lifelong battle to try to love someone through the chinks in their armor.

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved.

You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and, baffled, get up and begin again.

Love is energy of life.

Jove strikes the Titans down Not when they set about their mountain-piling But when another rock would crown the work.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.

Out of the wreck I rise.

Then welcome each rebuffThat turns earth's smoothness rough,Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go!Be our joys three parts pain!Strive, and hold cheap the strain;Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!

To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,And baffled, get up and begin again.

You call for faith:I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say,If faith o'ercomes doubt.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers,The heroes of old,Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrearsOf pain, darkness, and cold.

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

A man in armor is his armor's slave.

Inspiring bold John Barleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi' usquabae, we'll face the devil!

Inspiring bold John Barleycorn!What dangers thou canst make us scorn!Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil;Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

Till crash! the cruel coulter past Out thro' thy cell.

Unmatch'd at the bottle, unconquer'd in war, He drank his poor god-ship as deep as the sea; No tide of the Baltic e'er drunker than he.