Quotes About Strength

The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.

Buenos Aires puede volver a ser lo que fué, porque la civilización europea es tan {91} fuerte allí, que en despecho de las brutalidades del gobierno se ha de sostener.

Los toros tienen la capacidad de producir belleza y fe en un mundo que ha abandonado sus raíces

La desdicha es grande, pero el hombre es aún más grande que la desdicha (citando Tagore)

God likes to make people. Great people out of common people, strong people out of week people, famous people out of the unknown people, good people are bad people. God likes to make people. That's an obsession with God, one from which He will never change.

All his life had been based on this hostile kind of strength; a strength that viewed the world as a thing to master, to overcome, to fight. As a problem that might be solved by destroying. It seemed faintly ridiculous to him now; and he found it difficult to remember that a life could be based on such fear. There could, he thought , be no impulse to destruction that was not rooted in some terrible fear, and he was no longer afraid.

Emerson wrote, 'A good indignation brings out all one's powers.' I would think that all three of us should be indignant and, with our combined powers, we should be invincible.

Time was a dry wind brushing away his youth and his strength.

En el éxito de taquilla Annie, la huerfanita de rulos pelirrojos tiene un optimismo inclaudicable: «El sol saldrá mañana» . A pesar de vivir en la pobreza y el abandono Annie se niega a ver su estado de orfandad como algo permanente. No ha aprendido a ser indefensa y vulnerable, y su personaje representa todo lo opuesto: la esperanza.

Señor, sálvame. 31 Al punto Jesús, extendiendo la mano, lo cogió del brazo, y le dijo: Hombre de poca fe, ¿por qué has titubeado?

La paz les dejo, la paz mía les doy: no se la doy yo, como la da el mundo. No se turbe su corazón, ni se acobarde.

Oh Señor! Yo creo: Ayuda tú mi incredulidad, fortalece mi confianza. 25

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

The big diffrence between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains.

I never fail to be mystified by those who regard the revision of a former opinion as a sign of weakness.

Mack Bolan was not born to kill, as many of his comrades and superiors secretly believed. He was not a mechanically functioning killer-robot, as his sniper-team partners openly proclaimed. He was not even a cold-blooded and ruthless exterminator, as one leftist news correspondent tagged him. Mack was simply a man who could command himself.

In trying to be strong for them, I had cheated them out of opportunities to strengthen me. Guilt overwhelmed me, because I could-at last-see their gifts to me. The shame flowed all over me, and I began to cry. This is their ministry, I thought, and I've been spoiling it. I felt such intense shame over not letting them help. When I finally did open up, I witnessed a drastic

When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God.

Just then I realized how badly I had missed the whole idea. I had failed them and myself. In trying to be strong for them, I had cheated them out of opportunities to strengthen me. Guilt overwhelmed me, because I could—at last—see their gifts to me.

Most of the time when people have that if-you-can-do-it attitude, I nod, acknowledge what they're saying, and add, "I'm just doing the best I can." And really, that's all I did during the worst days. Sometimes "the best I can" was nothing but to endure. Even when I struggled with depression, it was still the best I could do.

When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God. Our chains will fall from us.

Uno empieza siendo idealista, moralmente fuerte, si se quiere, pero entonces la ropa de tu fuerza moral se va desgastando poco a poco hasta que ya no puedes más y haces cosas que nunca pensaste que harías, o no haces cosas que siempre pensaste que harías.

In the words of Oscar Wilde, 'I can resist everything but temptation.

You call the wolf, you get the pack.