Quotes About Strength

One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.

The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

My courage is faith--faith in the eternal resilience of me--that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does I've got to keep my lips shut and my chin high and my eyes wide--not necessarily any silly smiling. Oh, I've been through hell without a whine quite often--and the female hell is deadlier than the male.

He loved her, and he would love her until the day he was too old for loving--but he could not have her. So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

I don't want to sound like Pollyanna, she began, but you haven't grasped me yet. My courage is faith- faith in the eternal resilience of me- that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does I've got to keep my lips shut and my chin high and my eyes wide- not necessarily any silly smiling. Oh, I've been through hell without a whine quite often- and the female hell is deadlier than the male.

To be afraid, a person has either to be very great and strong-- or else a coward. I'm neither.

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

She was beautiful-- but especially she was without mercy. He must own that strength that could send him away.

The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.

All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.

And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.

Her sigh was a benediction—an ecstatic surety that she was youth and beauty now as much as she would ever know. For another instant life was radiant and time a phantom and their strength eternal—then there was a bumping, scraping sound as the rowboat scraped alongside. Up

My courage is faith—faith in the eternal resilience of me—that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does I've got to keep my lips shut and my chin high, and my eyes wide—not necessarily any silly smiling. Oh, I've been through hell without a whine quite often—and the female hell is deadlier than the male.

The strongest should come first in comedy because once a character is really established as funny everything he does is funny.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. And if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will.

Évszázadok telnek még el, mire egy amazon végre képes lesz fölfogni azt a tényt, hogy a férfi kizárólag a büszkeségében sebezhetÅ' meg, de ha ezt egyszer megrobbantják, törékeny lesz az egész ember, akár a tojás.

The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing," he said. "Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

Sweetness is hard. Real sweetness is a sort of hardness—and strength. ~Lois

the very vanities that had not long ago been contemptible weaknesses