Quotes About Strength

followed – even now at this moment.' The one-time beggar

Call it the courage of an insignificant goat who has survived.

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.

We've got an unbeatable team.- Sauron

It matters little that you are afraid if you manage to hide it. You are then at the edge of courage. (one of Jaujard's philosophies)

These were the underdogs, the outsiders, the pariahs, the sinners of his system. But the reason he was so concerned about them was that he felt the quality and strength of his entire system of organization depended on how he treated them. If he treated the pariahs well he would have a good system. If he treated them badly he would have a weak one.

Chris asks, What are you going to stick to? Mah guns, boy, mah guns, I tell him. That's the Code of the West.

Like that timber wolf on the mountain he had a kind of animal courage. He went his own way with unconcern for consequences that sometimes stunned people, and stuns me now to hear about it. He did not often swerve to right or to left. I've discovered that. But this courage didn't arise from any idealistic idea of self-sacrifice, only from the intensity of his pursuit, and there was nothing noble about it.

If one person complains he just makes it that much harder for the others. They've got stamina. They know how to keep on going.

The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness.

All but the most heroically strong among us would slip another step lower in the face of this loss. It is true that hope, no matter how irrational, can sustain us in the darkest of times. But nothing can break us more effectively than hope given and then taken away capriciously. Manipulating these psychological variables is a powerful but double-edged sword.

growing strong from adversity is mostly a luxury for those who are better off.

when the punishment was sufficient. Even as a boy Boone showed the stoicism

Every time we resist the slightest temptation, we honor God. Every

Lord," he said, "for what we are about to receive make us truly thankful, and for the struggles of this life make us strong and worthy, and for the beauties of the world make us humble and grateful.

a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.

Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?...He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage...

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

I ought to have guessed that a person like her—a person who you could tell had a deep inner certitude of self which comes from being all of one piece, of not being shreds and patches and old cogwheels held together with pieces of rusty barbed wire and spit and bits of string, like most of us—I ought to have guessed that that kind of a person would not be surprised into answering a question she didn't want to answer. Even

nothing ever happened to Jack Burden, who was invulnerable. Perhaps this was the curse of Jack Burden: he was invulnerable.

Willpower is more than just a metaphor; self-control is a finite resource.

El verdadero sanador, el verdadero sabio, es el que permanece sabio entre aquellos que todavía no han despertado. Ten valor, y permanece en pie.

The best way to treat your fears is to kiss them on the nose, and they disappear.

The shaming words were solid, immovable events in my life. What do you do with the solid and immovable? You build on it.