Quotes About Strength

To me, I see scars of courage. Inflicting them gave him the strength to survive the pain that's plagued him all his life. I'm grateful to every one of them because he's still here, with me.

Broken pencils still write beautiful songs.

The heavy soul will not pass though the body is failing.

We can feel damaged and sad and mad and know that it doesn't make us any less worthy than when we didn't feel that way.

We all go through sad times, but I was brought up to be positive.

Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.

Some people say they're gathering DNA. Perhaps they're gathering it for the future when the human race is stronger or weaker, who knows. That's science fiction and mere speculation.

When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.

A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.

...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But bad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable three, Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss.

Masume works hard and he's very thoughtful. He likes hardships, so he's very useful.

But eggshells were made to be broken, and slamming into a 100-story skyscraper at the speed of light would likely do the deed.

... tree has had a stroke, and its top dies. A redwood can deal with a stroke. It simply grows a new top in a few centuries.

Lailah Gifty Akita