Quotes About Strength
And those who come together in the night-time and are entwined in a cradle of desire are carrying out a serious work in collecting sweetness, profundity and strength for the song of some poet yet to come, who will rise up to speak unutterable pleasures.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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Art?k etraflar?na bakmaya, aramaya baÅŸlad?lar; güçleri hep, bulunmaktan ibaret olan bu k?zlar.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive and lend it grandeur and height. And those who come together in the nighttime and are entwined in a cradle of desire are carrying out a serious work in collecting sweetness, profundity, and strength for the song of some poet yet to come, who will rise up to speak unutterable pleasures.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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Between hammers pounding, the heart exists, like the tongue between the teeth—which still, however, does the praising.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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Aber glauben Sie an eine Liebe, die für Sie aufbewahrt wird wie eine Erbschaft, und vertrauen Sie, dass in dieser Liebe eine Kraft ist und ein Segen, aus dem Sie nicht herausgehen müssen, um ganz weit zu gehen!
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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Aber Ihre Einsamkeit wird Ihnen auch inmitten fremder Verhältnisse Halt und Heimat sein, und aus ihr heraus werden Sie alle Ihre Wege finden.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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To love is also good, for love is hard. Love berween one person and another: that is perhaps the hardest thing it is laid on us to do, the utmost, the ultimate trial and test, the work for which all other work is just preparation. For this reason young people, who are beginners in everything, do not yet know how to love: they must learn. With their whole being, with all their strength, concerted on their solitary fearful, upward beating hearts, they have to learn to love.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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It's possible I am pushing through solid rock in flintlike layers, as the ore lies, alone; I am such a long way in I see no way through, and no space: everything is close to my face, and everything close to my face is stone.
~ Rainer Marie Rilke
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Mahatma Gandhiji had unlimited courage, so he could fight against the British at the risk of his life, not by talking of non-violence only. He never retreated when it was necessary to show courage. But what is the use of finding fault with weapons when we have no courage to fight? We were only boasting about non-violence without strength
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
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In our hands is a placed power greater with their hoarded gold, greater than the might of armies magnified a thousand-fold. We can bring the birth the new world from the ashes of the old, for the union makes us strong.
~ Ralph Chaplin
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They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him
~ Ralph Ellison
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They can laugh, but they can't deny us. They can curse and kill us, but they can't destroy us. This land is ours because we come out of it, we bled in it, our tears watered it, we fertilized it with our dead. So the more of us they destroy, the more it becomes filled with the spirit of our redemption.
~ Ralph Ellison
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Live with your head in the lion's mouth.
~ Ralph Ellison
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He's only a man. Remember that. He's only a man!
~ Ralph Ellison
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And all Negroes at some period of their lives there is that yearning for a sense of group unity that is the yearning of men for a flag: for a unity that cannot be compromised, that cannot be bought; that is conscious of itself, of its strength, that is militant.
~ Ralph Ellison
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a delegate shout out from the floor: "Peonage, Anti-Lynch Bill, poll tax, these are our issues. They are the most controversial issues in American life, and some of us will have to die for them! Yes, we want to join with the CIO! We cannot stop for controversy!" And there in the faces of my people I saw strength. There with the whites in the audience I saw the positive forces of civilization and the best guarantee of America's future.
~ Ralph Ellison
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Even let them eat hummingbirds' wings and tell you it's too good for you.—Grits and greens don't turn to ashes in anybody's mouth—how about it, Rev. Eatmore?
~ Ralph Ellison
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Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open.
~ Ralph Ellison
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Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open." They thought the old man had gone out of his mind. He had been the meekest of men. The younger children were rushed from the
~ Ralph Ellison
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Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust right open.
~ Ralph Ellison
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popular, were combined with the special virtues of some local bootlegger, the eloquence of some Negro preacher, the strength and grace of some local athlete, the ruthlessness of some businessman-physician, the elegance in dress and manners of some head-waiter or hotel doorman.
~ Ralph Ellison
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The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
~ Ralph Emerson
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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