Quotes About Strength

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

When you're in hell, you forget how great you really are because you're suffering and you forget the great things you've done.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.

God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations.

One of the things I'm learning is that crisis passes, and for anyone suffering I think it's important to know that.

Sometimes when you're suffering really intensely, you can't pray for yourself.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down - to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who's never gone through difficulty.

It's OK to feel pain and experience it. I'm not trying to fix myself. My suffering has given me so much.

One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.

I spent 51 years under apartheid. I don't imagine suffering. I know it.

God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.

I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting.

Many Russia experts note the deep and sad capacity of the Russian people for suffering.

The regrets I have are strong enough that I wouldn't share 'em. I think that you can't live without suffering some.

Musicians keep playing when the lights go out, when people are suffering, confused, or angry.

To those out there who are suffering from cancer, facing adversity, I want you to know that your will to live can make all the difference in the world.

Everybody suffers through some type of adversity. Does it make you stronger or does it pull you down? And I never will let any of that pull me down or pull me away from what I've set to achieve.

When a person has cancer, the whole family really suffers with her.

I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.

In the past I was doing a lot of jump training and felt like that was sufficient for my lower body.

I'll put a 25-kilogram bag of sugar over each shoulder and run up the stairs with them when we're loading ingredients that have been delivered, and I'll hold 25-kilogram blocks of butter at shoulder height to build arm strength as well.

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.