Quotes About Strength

Pray on, then, all you postponed and disappointed and impoverished people of God; pray on and faint not. Pray on: for the prayer is far better than the answer.

There is a madman who lives on the road to Mkushi. Every full moon he comes out onto the tarmac and digs a deep trench across the road. Dad would like to find the madman and bring him back to the farm. 'Think what a strong bugger he is, eh?' 'Yes, but you could only get him to work when there was a full moon.' 'Which is twice as hard as any other Zambian.

For the first time, I was beginning to see that for a woman to speak her mind in any clear, unassailable, unapologetic way, she must first possess it.

How much strength must one people have? And for how long must they have it?

Grief is an eroding wind. After grief has blown through, there is just the bedrock of a person.

squinting thousand-yard stare of a person who has lived both in bright sunshine and among crocodiles and hippos his whole life.

Strong people didn't like witnesses to their weak moments.

She'd done harder things in her life, she could do this. She had to.

A St. Louis oncology nurse quoted Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl to States News Service in 2012: " 'What is to give light must endure burning.' I think people who care for others understand. Caregiving is painful.

He will increase in strength and honor by struggling with adversity, which he will convert into prosperity.

What I've loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You've broken it with a word, so I must die.

I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.

Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, Do your worst, for I will do mine! and you will be remembered forever.

Return to the world still more brilliant because of your former sorrows.

Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed.

Great is the truth, fire can not burn, nor water can drown it!

He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow, with black eyes, and hair as dark as the raven's wing; and his whole appearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger.

Kitty: I thought your ladyship was ill. I wanted to help you. Lady deWinter: I ill? Do you take me for a weak woman? When I am insulted I do not feel ill - I avenge myself. Do you hear?

Come now, be a man!' he thought. 'We are used to adversity; let's not be crushed by a mere disappointment, or else I shall have suffered for nothing. The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.

There are men who have suffered and who have not only gone on living, but even built a new fortune on the ruins of their former happiness. From the depths into which their enemies have plunged them, they have risen again with such vigor and glory that they have dominated their former conquerors and cast them down in their turn.

Never be afraid to cry. Sometimes, nothing can cleanse the heart more than a few wet tears.

Whether or not you believe in God, He always believes in You!

Light always overcomes darkness.

Do you believe your gentle birth will turn a bullet?" "Why, yes," Rhett said solemnly. "Hell yes! Gentle birth's got to be good for something!