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From Orient PointThe art of living isn't hard to muster:Enjoy the hour, not what it might portend.When someone makes you promises, don't trust herunless they're in the here and now, and just herwilling largesse free-handed to a friend.The art of living isn't hard to muster:groom the old dog, her coat gets back its luster;take brisk walks so you're hungry at the end.When someone makes you promises, don't trust herto know she can afford what they will cost herto keep until they're kept. Till then, pretendthe art of living isn't hard to muster.Cooking, eating and drinking are a clusterof pleasures. Next time, don't go round the bendwhen someone makes you promises. Don't trust herpast where you'd trust yourself, and don't adjust herwords to mean more to you than she'd intend.The art of living isn't hard to muster.You never had her, so you haven't lost herlike spare house keys. Whatever she opens,when someone makes you promises, don't. Trust yourart; go on living: that's not hard to muster.
— Marilyn Hacker
I think that, generally, people of the world typify a "free and wild" person as someone who's uprooted, detached and uninhibited. But I don't believe in that kind of freedom. I think that's an infantile concept. Freedom means something when it has escaped something! Those people who escaped things— their inner cages, cages set by others around them— when those people are able to roam free and say, "This is who I am because this is who I choose to be", THAT is freedom. Freedom isn't being stupid; freedom is being so smart that you develop a strength strong enough to break free and become your own person. A better person than what your circumstances would like to define you as.
— C. JoyBell C.
You want science and studies? Fuck you. I’ve got scars and blood and vomit.
— Jim Wendler, 5/3/1: The Simplest and Most Effective Training System for Raw Strength
Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.
— Scott Hahn, Hope for Hard Times
Be very careful what you try with that.  I’m not as strong as I should be.” His breath was ragged, and irregular.  “And you are stronger than you know.
— Tyra Lynn, Tempus
If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it.
— Shirley Abbott, Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South
We grow in part by confessing our faults and weaknesses to each other (James 5:16; Eccl. 4:10). If we are always being strong and without needs, we are not growing, and we are setting ourselves up for a very dangerous fall.
— Henry Cloud, Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't
A chain grows weaker with each new link.
— Marty Rubin
I will do what I can
— Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
Jealousy shows weakness and we must be strong to except ourselves for who we truly are.
— Sarah van Waterschoot
Why should we think upon things that are lovely Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
— William James
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals
— Mario Puzo
All that is gold does not glitter
—  not all those who wander are lost
People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.
— Catherine Deneuve
The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.
— Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Spaces
Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.
— John Bunyan, The Pilgrims Progress
Only through the group, I realised — through sharing the suffering of the group — could the body reach that height of existence that the individual alone could never attain. And for the body to reach that level at which the divine might be glimpsed, a dissolution of individuality was necessary. The tragic quality of the group was also necessary, the quality that constantly raised the group out of the abandon and torpor into which it was prone to lapse, leading it to an ever-mounting shared suffering and so to death, which was the ultimate suffering. The group must be open to death — which meant, of course, that it must be a community of warriors.
— Yukio Mishima, Sun and Steel
You're not completely alone, you have me! Even if the entire world turns its back on you, you'll still be the strongest as long as you have me!
— Kyo Shirodaira
Risin up, when you’re weak, makes a person stronger. By standin, thery’re saying that [she] matters, and they matter too. I feel better when I think about how showin respect to one person makes every person makes every person worth more.
— Todd  Johnson, The Sweet By and By
There is a strange idea abroad, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the contrary, is something a man already has. He has it, perhaps, because he already has marketable assets of a greater cash value than the loan for which he is asking. Or he has it because his character and past record have earned it. He brings it into the bank with him. That is why the banker makes him the loan. The banker is not giving something for nothing.
— Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
Coercing attitude drains your strength.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
YOU HAVE TO BE STRONG ENOUGH TO BE WEAKAllow yourself to feel whatever you are feeling. Notice any labels you attach to crying or feeling vulnerable. Let go of the labels. Just feel what you are feeling, all the while cultivating moment-to-moment awareness, riding the waves of “up” and “down,” “good” and “bad,” “weak” and “strong,” until you see that they are all inadequate to fully describe your experience. Be with the experience itself. Trust in your deepest strength of all: to be present, to be wakeful.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger...unless it instead snaps your spine. Then it makes you a paraplegic.
— Kelli Jae Baeli, Falling Through the Cracks: The Misadventures of No One Famous
To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of the world but those who fight and win battles that others do not know anything about.
— Jonathan Harnisch, The Brutal Truth
Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.
— Barack Obama
of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.
— G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.
— Stephen King, The Dead Zone
A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim toward reproduction.
— John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat
McChrystal's defenders at the Pentagon were making the case Tuesday that the president and his men—(the McChrystal snipers spared Hillary)—must put aside their hurt feelings about being painted as weak sisters. Obama should not fire the serially insubordinate general, they reasoned, because that would undermine the mission in Afghanistan, and if that happens, then Obama would be further weakened.So the commander in chief can be bad-mouthed as weak by the military but then he can't punish the military because that would make him weak? It's the same sort of pass-the-Advil vicious circle reasoning the military always uses.
— Maureen Dowd
Though these young men unhappily fail tounderstand that the sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest ofall sacrifices, and that to sacrifice, for instance, five or six years oftheir seething youth to hard and tedious study, if only to multiplytenfold their powers of serving the truth and the cause they have setbefore them as their goal--such a sacrifice is utterly beyond the strengthof many of them. 
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Having recovered from an inexplicable moment of weakness Claire was on the defensive, ready to bite. I had the impression that she was now looking for a chance to demonstrate her strength, or her hard-heartedness.
— Jean de Berg, The Image/The Whip Angels
They’d scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own terms—not just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating.
— Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
A legendary horse is praised not for its strength, but for its Integrity.
— Confucius, The Analects
The same way we grow our bodies we must attend to our mind and spirit.
— Nikki Rowe
Even small waves make it to shore. Use the potential you have through intention and action and enjoy your journey.
— Tony Curl, Seriously Simple Stuff to Get You Unstuck
Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
— Bram Stoker, Dracula
When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The man who, to rescue his house from the flames, finds his physical strength redoubled, so that he lifts burdens with ease which in the absence of excitement he could scarcely move; he who under the rage of an insult attacks and puts to flight half a score of his enemies,—are such persons to be called weak? My good friend, if resistance be strength, how can the highest degree of resistance be a weakness?
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
— Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
Welcome Beauty, banish fear.
— Francesca Lia Block, Pink Smog
The revolution has no leader, I said. It was more like a raging wild horse that would buck anyone who tried to mount it against its will.
— Wael Ghonim, Revolution 2:0: A Memoir and Call to Action
Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to begin, to wait until the next dry season comes around. Home is where your woman is, that you come back to in the intervals between a greater love - the only real love - the lust for riches buried in the earth, that are your own if you can find them.Perhaps you do not call it home, even to yourself. Perhaps you call them 'my house,' 'my woman,' What if there was another 'my house,' 'my woman,' before this one? It makes no difference. This woman is enough for now.Perhaps the guns sounded too loud at Anzio or at Omaha Beach, at Guadalcanal or at Okinawa. Perhaps when they stilled again some kind of strength had been blasted from you that other men still have. And then again perhaps it was some kind of weakness that other men still have. What is strength, what is weakness, what is loyalty, what is perfidy?The guns taught only one thing, but they taught it well: of what consequence is life? Of what consequence is a man? And, therefore, of what consequence if he tramples love in one place and goes to find it in the next? The little moment that he has, let him be at peace, far from the guns and all that remind him of them.So the man who once was Bill Taylor has come back to his house, in the dusk, in the mountains, in Anahuac. ("The Moon Of Montezuma")
— Cornell Woolrich, The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
As part of humanity, each of us is called to develop and share the unique gifts we are given.
— Mollie Marti
You want to live?Yes!Then quit thinking you're gonna die!
— Laurel Dewey, Protector
...My deepest personal reason for staying in Paris is that whatever I have as a character, good or bad, is based on the fact that since the age of four I have never run away from anything however painful or dangerous when I thought it was my duty to take a stand -- the American Ambassador to France upon being asked to evacuate Paris by the State Department on the eve of Nazi occupation of Paris in 1940
— William C. Bullitt
He read disappointment at his response and wondered if she realized that she expected a certain amount of effusive sympathy from the people she told. Rejecting that sympathy made her feel strong, compensating for what she perceived as her weakness. He suspected that the disease was the first time she hadn't been able to make everything come out all right through the sheer determination that it would be.
— Tanya Huff, Blood Trail
There is a tree. At the downhill edge of a long, narrow field in the western foothills of the La Sal Mountains -- southeastern Utah. A particular tree. A juniper. Large for its species -- maybe twenty feet tall and two feet in diameter. For perhaps three hundred years this tree has stood its ground. Flourishing in good seasons, and holding on in bad times. "Beautiful" is not a word that comes to mind when one first sees it. No naturalist would photograph it as exemplary of its kind. Twisted by wind, split and charred by lightning, scarred by brushfires, chewed on by insects, and pecked by birds. Human beings have stripped long strings of bark from its trunk, stapled barbed wire to it in using it as a corner post for a fence line, and nailed signs on it on three sides: NO HUNTING; NO TRESPASSING; PLEASE CLOSE THE GATE. In commandeering this tree as a corner stake for claims of rights and property, miners and ranchers have hacked signs and symbols in its bark, and left Day-Glo orange survey tape tied to its branches. Now it serves as one side of a gate between an alfalfa field and open range. No matter what, in drought, flood heat and cold, it has continued. There is rot and death in it near the ground. But at the greening tips of its upper branches and in its berrylike seed cones, there is yet the outreach of life. I respect this old juniper tree. For its age, yes. And for its steadfastness in taking whatever is thrown at it. That it has been useful in a practical way beyond itself counts for much, as well. Most of all, I admire its capacity for self-healing beyond all accidents and assaults. There is a will in it -- toward continuing to be, come what may.
— Robert Fulghum, Uh-oh - Some Observations From Both Sides Of The Refrigerator Door
What makes the strength of the soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a whole lot of signals, it's the strength he's able to concentrate within himself, by staying centered. That Maori player was like a tree, a great indestructible oak with deep roots and a powerful radiance- everyone could feel it. And yet you also got the impression that the great oak could fly, that it would be as quick as the wind, despite, or perhaps because of, its deep roots.
— Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
But the vicar of St. Botolph's had certainly escaped the slightest tincture of the Pharisee, and by dint of admitting to himself that he was too much as other men were, he had become remarkably unlike them in this - that he could excuse others for thinking slightly of him, and could judge impartially of their conduct even when it told against him. [from Middlemarch, a quote my mother thinks describes the kind of man my father was]
— George Eliot
(The presence of evil) in his life provokes him into either overcoming it or yielding to it. If the first, it has led him to work for his own improvement; if the second it has led him to acknowledge his own weakness. Sooner or later, the unpleasant consequences of such weakness will lead him to grapple with it, and develop his power of will...Immediately and directly, it may either strengthen him or weaken him. Ultimately, it can only strengthen him.
— Paul Brunton, The Spiritual Crisis of Man
She did not want to be a consolation prize. Be pitied or a distraction.
— Sarah J. Maas
The old 'qualities' of masculinity - a narrow focus on life, domestic incompetence signalling a mind on higher things, emotional reserve and acts of endurance - have become absurdities, signs more of incompetence, insensitivity, lack of intelligence than of strength.
— Rosalind Coward, Sacred Cows: Is Feminism Relevant To The New Millennium?
You had the physical bullies and the emotional bullies and they both revelled in destroying lives.No, she had no time for them. But there were others whose strength was of a much rarer kind. Not easy to find, because they revealed nothing. They were quiet. They often believed themselves to be much weaker than they were. But when pushed too hard, they surprised themselves, finding they would not back away another step, that a wall had risen in their souls, unyielding, a barrier that could not be passed. To find one such as this was the most precious of discoveries.
— Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds
Now I wonder if maybe allowing another person to give you strength takes a certain kind of strength in itself.To be able to lean all your weight on someone else with confidence in the knowledge they won’t drop you. How often does a person really find that kind of trust in another?
— T.L. Martin, Touched by Death
You pushed me down to the depths of my sorrow until I thought I wouldn’t see the light of day again. You expected me to drown, didn’t you? To be left there for an eternity, waiting for your hand to pull me out? What you didn’t stop to realize is that I live in the shadows, thrive even. When I pull myself from the darkness, I’ll be stronger for it and you’ll regret leaving me for dead.
— Kayla Krantz, When Night Falls: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems
Don't tell a girl with fire in her veins and hurricane bones what she should and shouldn't do. In the blink of an eye, she will shatter that ridiculous cage you attempt to build around her beautiful bohemian spirit.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
With the strength of God, we shall overcome every struggle.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When you stop seeing your weaknesses as weaknesses you will overcome them.
— Marty Rubin
We all suffer our share of grief but we are stronger than our grief.
— Marty Rubin
A sword wields no strength, unless the hand that holds it has courage.
— Lucifer
Keep moving through valleys to find your sight,As the dark becomes the light,Keep moving up mountains to find your strength,As you climb the hardest length.
— Laura Roberts, Arrow's Adventure
I know sometimes life can be painful, my tiger. But, remember, if you can’t change what’s happened today, you must bide your time, until you’re strong enough to fight tomorrow.
— Peter Bunzl, Cogheart
1.	The troubled times that you go through are not meant to break you, instead they are meant to show you the hidden strength that lies within. It is at times like this when you thought you are broke that you suddenly discover that you have a pile of cash stashed away which you had completely forgotten about. Draw upon those hidden reserves that you never knew existed and come out stronger from the experience. It is your ability to brave the storm that is more important.
— Latika Teotia
If you want to be strong, be.
— LJ Shen
With grace, we find the strength to reach the goal.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You wake up in this here world, my sweet li'l mister, you got to wake up tough. You go out that front door tough of a mornin' and you stay tough 'til lights out—have you learned that?
— Daniel Woodrell, The Death of Sweet Mister
The length, the depth and the strength of your relationship is determined more by your compatibility in the difficult times than by your compatibility in the better times.
— Hrishikesh Agnihotri
I encourage you to remember that you are, indeed, as the stars. You glow with the same intensity. The answers that you seek outside of yourself may very well be found within the cosmic intelligence inside you. Go ahead; show the world what you are made of! Sparkle, shine, light the way, and brightly blaze as you are meant to do.
— Mishi McCoy
It wasn’t that Nell was weak. It was that the world was dangerous.
— Kelsey Brickl, Hardtack: A Civil War Story
Not all men are handsome and strong. There are some who are cowards from birth. There are some who are weak by nature. There are even some who cry easily. But for such a man, a man both weak and cowardly, to bear the burden of his weakness and struggle valiantly to live a beautiful life-- that's what I call great. The reason I'm so fond of Gaston is not because he has a strong will or a good head. Rather it's because, weakling and coward that he is, he keeps on fighting in his own way.
— Shūsaku Endō, Wonderful Fool
Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level.
— Germany Kent
Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.
— Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
Never forget about your inner warrior
—  sometimes she's all you have
Vulnerability along with a sense of humility are the purest forms of strength.
— H.L. Balcomb, Cinderella In Focus: "Curiosity is the doorway to our personal possibility!" 2nd Edition coming Oct.  31, 2017
It is always harder to climb the mountain. One must find strength of hope within the depths of heart to move onward.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
No matter what, if you have the strength of life, it is enough to be thankful.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I love that about us how capable we are of feeling how unafraid we are of breaking and tend to our wounds with grace just being a womancalling myselfa womanmakes me utterly wholeand complete
— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
It takes strength to forgive and love unconditionally,a nd you have that strength, Savannah. It´s what makes you shine.
— Michelle Madow, Diamonds are Forever
Careful! The kraken is wagging its tentacle, again.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
The weakness of one man is the strength of another, hence we all are different for a reason.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Strength of character is never with those who blindly follow. You need to be able to make your own choices and walk your own path.
— Celeste Lim, The Crystal Ribbon
The obstacles are man-made, so we can overcome with divine-strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What a burden it must be to know all the terrible things you've done and support it with arms unfit to carry it all.
— K. Weikel, Untouched Water
Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't.
— Rikki Rogers
Despair was a private weakness she could not afford to indulge.
— Robin McKinley, Chalice
... You did what none of us could do.”“Only because the poison didn’t affect me the same way—”“Does that matter? We couldn’t do it. You did. We saw what you looked like when you got out. How many times did you fall in order to batter your knees like that? But you kept going.”“That makes me stubborn, not strong,” she mumbled.“Strength comes in many forms...
— Annette Marie, Dark Tempest
When your steps are destined... you can trust that your journey has a variety of processes. These processes will be disguised with a perfect strife; however, the struggle is pivotal in breeding greatness..." (T.luard)
— Tiffany Luard
Sometimes in this world, all you have is YOU!Stand strong and tall. No one will do it for you
— Levon Peter Poe
I had brutal beginnings. I will not let the darkness in.
— Melissa  Jennings, Afterlife
We cannot run away from our problems. We have to pray for strength to conquer,
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Strength is not determined by the looks, but action.
— Gift Gugu Mona
We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heros or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with majesty and exaltation. And those who come together in the nights and are entwined in rocking delight perform a solemn task and gather sweetness, depth, and strength for the song of some future poet, who will appear in order to say ecstasies that are unsayable.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
I didn't scream I wasn't afraid. I knew I was strong enough to survive it all.
— Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark
Pain had a way of breaking time down. I thought about the next minute, the next hour. There wasn't enough space in my mind to put all those pieces together, to find words to summarise the whole of it. But the "keep going" part, I knew the words for.P151
— Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark
My purely practical advice: Don't get excited. Don't raise your voice. Bite back. Bite back hard, but never cry.
— Siri Hustvedt, A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
Was this what it was going to be like? Was I turning into someone who had panic attacks about walking home from the tube or staying the night alone in the house without their boyfriend? No, fuck that. I would not be that person.
— Ruth Ware, The Woman in Cabin 10
The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength,
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Welcome to the apocalypse. Where make-do is a motto and life seems wrong, out-of-place. Where the weak become strong because they have no other choice.
— Caroline George, The Vestige
The world doesn’t change because the sun sets and rises. We can either adapt to survive our circumstance or we can change it. And I know we can’t control fate, but I’m sure not going to spend whatever time I have left sitting around and waiting for my life to get better.
— Caroline George, The Vestige
Kindness is not a fixed trait that we either have or lack, but more like a muscle that can be developed and strengthened.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Mind your strength! Let people know that you are strong and let them see how strong you are, and who or what makes you strong, but in doing so, be careful showing people the true source of your strength for not all people deserve to know that! You may never know what is behind the mind! Sometimes in life, the day you show people how wise you are, the very day you show them how unwise you are! Get understanding and walk in wisdom!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
She had inherited a story that was strewn with corpses and clotted with enmity, and was only trying to stay alive in it.
— Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
... there is nothing stronger than a woman who has beaten her way back from being beaten down in the first place.
— Barbara Lieberman, The Playlist Anthology
My grandfather often felt frustrated or baffled by my grandmother's illness, but when it came to the origins of the Skinless Horse he thought he understood. The Skinless Horse was a creature sworn to pursue my grandmother no matter where she went on the face of the globe, whispering to her in the foulest terms of her crimes and the blackness of her soul. There was a voice like that in everyone's head, he figured; in my grandmother's case it was just a matter of degree. You could almost see the Skinless Horse as a clever adapation, a strategy for survival evolved by a proven survivor. If you kept the voice inside your head, the way most people did, there could really be only one way to silence it. He admired the defiance, the refusal to surrender, involuntary but implicit in the act of moving that reproachful whisperer to a shadowy corner of a room, an iron furnace in a cellar, the branches of a grand old tree.
— Michael Chabon, Moonglow
The foolish families worry over blood. I care nothing for purity of family or ancestry. That is a vain thing. I care only for strength. What a man can do to other men, women.
— Pierce Brown, Red Rising
That's the whole problem, isn't it?" He turned his face toward the night sky and let out a horrible laugh, like a gasp of pain. "Why are you the only person who's allowed to be strong?
— Katie Alender, From Bad to Cursed
If you do not have any problems, it means you have stopped being of interest to the devil; you are not dangerous to him
— Sunday Adelaja
To have wisdom whilst young, to have strength whilst old, therein lies the secret to life on earth
— Paddick Van Zyl
where is sources power of man's restore? in physical strength ?or money? i felt -it is heart . men who has something might be stopped if no is peace in his heart
— litymunshi
The source of life’s energy comes from our creator and maker
— Sunday Adelaja
When we set up a goal for ourselves our body starts to produce inner energy independently
— Sunday Adelaja
God knows your abilities, and he also knows how to turn your weak points into strong ones
— Sunday Adelaja
Through solving problems we improve and develop ourselves, reach maturity and strengthen our will
— Sunday Adelaja
Overcoming all obstacles improves us, develops our natural ability and makes us stronger
— Sunday Adelaja
If a man realizes who he is, he is confident of his strength
— Sunday Adelaja
There is lonely, and there is alone time. I have found that both have etched character upon my soul.
— Alfa H
Believe it or not, I'm stronger than any belief, stereotype, profile, or idea you have of me. I'm driven and self-made with a perception unique to my own. You'll hate that and say I'm not special. I'll allow you to believe it because deep down, you already know I am. My name's Charles Lee. Bound for greatness. Destined to soar.
— Charles   Lee
This oath is the oath we all swear. Not to a god, or a master, or to the Ludu Achillea...but to our sisters who stand here with us. Our sisters. This is the oath that binds us all, one to one, all to all, so that we are no longer free. We belong to each other. We are bound to each other. In swearing to each other, we free ourselves from the outside world, from the world of men, from those who would seek to bind us to Fate and that which would make us slaves. We sacrifice our liberty so that, ultimately, we can be truly free.
— Lesley Livingston, The Valiant
Your strengths might make you hard to approach, and might make your words sound uglier than what you actually mean, but they also make people look up to you.
— Marie Lu, Life Before Legend: Stories of the Criminal and the Prodigy
You don't have to part the waters or move the mountain for me; just help me get across them, Lord, for I can do all things through Thee.
— Lisa Mischelle Wood, Just Believe: A Collection of Christian Poetry and Photo-Quotes
Never to whine; to accept what came; to wait for better; to take what you could; to let no one, not even yourself, know how near to giving in you were.
— Robin Jenkins, The Changeling
I love connecting with people who have been through the fire and come out stronger and wiser. Using their experiences to inspire and empower others. Those are my people.
— Steve Maraboli
Growing Up' ----To become someone,to reach outfor things you have dreamt of.There is nogoing back.
— Tara Estacaan
She might not be sweetShe might not be upbeatShe is womanHer strength finespun —To the unkind,She changes her mind.Oh woman, solid purebred.Hold high your head.
— Tara Estacaan
When illness and old age are no longer indulgent and strength is irrevocably seeping away, brightness fades insidiously away from the light of the day and time only betrays reckless evanescence. (“Into a new life”)
— Erik Pevernagie
P.T.S.D. doesn't make you weak. It makes you a survivor.
— DaShanne Stokes
You are strong enough to sing as you wish, not as your pain has forced to. You aren't your hurt. You're other than that. You are not the broken things you've been.
— Maria Dahvana Headley, Aerie
the truth she gathered, enlarging her strength, enlarged likewise the composure that comes of strength.
— George MacDonald, Mary Marston
When Satan begins to particularly attack to persecute you, it should be a sign of your strength
— Sunday Adelaja
We downplay our strength when we only depend on miracles.
— Sunday Adelaja
I learned later that I had smartly discovered the way of defeating anything: believing that you're stronger than you are.
— K. Weikel, Building Monsters
You are strong enough to sing as you wish, not as your pain has forced you to. You aren't your hurt. You're other than that. You are not the broken things you've been.
— Maria Dahvana Headley, Aerie
Lord, I'm thankful for every stumble because it was then that You lifted me; I'm thankful for every heartache that made me stronger than I knew I could be.
— Lisa Mischelle Wood, Just Believe: A Collection of Christian Poetry
Audiences will admire your character’s strength but connect with them through their weakness.
— Don Roff
With the strength of God, we shall triumph in any situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The rule of God’s kingdom strengthens fulfilment of mandate
— Sunday Adelaja
To Be Trained Is To Be Strengthened
— Sunday Adelaja
The deeper the illustration the strengthened the value
— Sunday Adelaja
If we wish for a new strength, we must meditate on the Scriptures.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I thank God for supply me with my deepest needs
—  a life of love with graceful strength.
Many learn from the pastbut few do something with it. Take Action. Struggles bring strength to strive and succeed.
— Farshad Asl
once your get your hopes up, your mind starts acting on its own. And when your hopes are dashed you get dissapointed, and dissapointment leads to a feeling of helplessness. You get careless and let your guard down. And right now, she though, that si the last thing I can afford.
— Haruki Murakami
If you wish to find the strength of being, read the Holy Bible.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If we rest, we shall renewal our strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If we rest, we shall renewal our strength
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
— Toni Morrison, Home
Lucy buried her head in his mane to hide from his face. But there must have been magic in his mane. She could feel lion-strength going into her. Quite suddenly she sat up. "I'm sorry, Aslan," she said. "I'm ready now.""Now you are a lioness," said Aslan. "And now all Narnia will be renewed. But come. We have no time to lose.
— C.S. Lewis
We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out.
— Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
The tear-stained letters of my regret will remain forever unread, for I am never going to be strong enough to give them to you.
— Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem
This land needed a sword forged in the hottest of fires to regain what was lost...and you are that sword.
— S. Alexander O'Keefe, The Return of Sir Percival: Guinevere's Prayer
Generosity is a strength, not a weakness.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It is not how easily they jump at a noise or how quick they are to show emotion. It's how they make use of what life has shown them.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law
My strengths propel me and my weaknesses pursue me.
— Sudheer Reddy
Many things have broken him. He holds himself together with spit and endless smiling, but all can see the cracks. You, though; you are dented, bruised, but intact.
— N. K. Jemisin
The man of courage is not the man who did not face adversity. The man of courage is the man who faced adversity and spoke to it. The man of courage tells adversity, "You're trespassing and I give you no authority to steal my joy, my faith or my hope.
— Kiese Laymon, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
Our enemies make us strong, Miss Muffet, not our friends. Our friends will lie to us, tell us what we need to hear. Forgive us. We must keep a few good enemies on hand, always, to keep us sharp and teach us never to do anything that needs forgiveness.
— Ann Rinaldi, An Acquaintance with Darkness
My hands are small, I knowBut they're not yours, they are my ownBut they're not yours, they are my ownAnd I am never broken
— Jewel, Hands
My suffering helps me to find grace of strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
All that I can truly have: life, strength and time!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Whoever suffers knows the strength of suffering.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What cannot be cured must be endured.
— Laura Frantz, A Moonbow Night
Tough time don't lasts-Tough People DO
— Kazi Mahmudul Islam
You embody the strength of 10,000 moons and your life will be a testament of it. Ase
— Kierra C.T. Banks
This is a girl you can’t keep. You aren’t allowed to.
— Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings
Only small men parade their learning, talk over their audience and air their superior knowledge. Only brutal men throw their strength about, and vain rich men display their wealth in ostentatious useless luxuries.
— John  Myer, John Myer: A Collection of his Sermons and Writing, #1
True strength isn’t being able to knock your enemies down, it’s being able to hold yourself upright against their blows.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
To marry and have children, that is the common lot of women. Only one woman in a hundred--more, in a thousand, can make for herself a name and position as you have done.
— Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun
It was a crushing defeat, but it put iron in my backbone and sulphur in my blood. I knew at least what it was to fail. I knew what it was to attempt something big.
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn
Strength is seeing yourself as you are.
— Taro Okamoto
The singular difference between success and true success is those who achieved true success did not pursue success, they were driven by it. They were those who followed their strengths, they were those who spent each heartbeat to proffer solutions to humanity’s problems, they were those who lived a highly simple and effective life.
— Sesan Kareem
I want them to hear your story. And know that there is a special strength..." As I spoke I realized I needed to hear it, know it, too. "A special strength in enduring such dark trials and hardships... And still remaining warm, and kind. Still willing to trust—and reach out.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
Every person I ever knew or had come across always spoke about fallingin love with the rain. They dreamt of dancing in it like there is no tomorrow but I never heard someone speaking about falling in love with a wildfire. No, it is not for the weaker ones. The moment you fall in love with the wildfire, it starts burning everything that you have ever built or grown all these years around you. It changes the way you had always imagined and looked at how the love would be, making you end up homeless. It makes you a weakness intertwined with strength, a love intertwined with hatred. It makes you a puzzle that you yourself could never solve.
— Akshay Vasu
Most of us think we can hide our weaknesses from the world, and sometimes, we're right. But only if we're very very strong.
— Brian K. Vaughan, Saga #40
The way of the world isn't the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and whispering in the ears of the strong until they become weak, too.
— N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate
You are sick not weak. It is okay to be depressed.
— Kevin Breel
Man has been woman's image of capabilityNow is the time for her to bring about her own strength
— Neil Mach, Postcard Angel: An Innocent Girl Becomes The World's First Pin-up
A Data Scientists strength lies solely in their tenacity.
— Damian Mingle
That is true strength. To want what you have, and not what someone else is holding.
— Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
Team spirit fuels individual strength for a mutual success.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Value those whose capabilities are insurmountable you yourself possess the same strength....there's NO value in clowns! Believe and overcome!
— Monica Chrisandtras Hines
The sea is intriguing and exciting. It always reinforces in me a sense of belonging. The waves bring with them a strange kind of peace and calm. The sea has been a silent spectator to many major incidents in my life. The many outings with friends and family; the long walks on the shore with dad, my hero and philosopher; the moments spent with my love, the memories are endless.
— Jagdish Joghee, In Love and Free: The tale of a woman caught between two men...
That was the trick - to keep punching, no matter what.
— Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan
Humility is truth, therefore in all sincerity we must be able to look up and say, "I can do all things in Him who strengthens me." By yourself you can do nothing, have nothing but sin, weakness and misery. All the gifts of nature and grace you have them from God.
— Mother Teresa
Do not focus on the problem. Pray for strength to persevere.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is strength for every situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We are never old with the strength of the spirit, although the body may fail.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Pray for strength to preserve.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Pray for strength to persevere.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A persons emotions should be the strength, should not be the weakness
— Sharath Nazre
Achieving your goals depends more on the way you manage to push through the bad days, than shine on the good ones.
— Lorri Faye
You know your strengths but you must know your weaknesses more.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
When we have no choice of what is to come, we must find the strength to have trust in what lies ahead. SURRENDER.
— Karen A. Baquiran
She has her own brand of strength,brought to the surface by the dim glow of the streetlight and the whisper of night air on her skin.
— Holly Bourne
These times are hard, but I won't walk away jaded, darker, different. I feel. I cry to heal. If you saw me in those moments, maybe you'd think I was a mess. But I don't call it a mess. I call it strength.Real strength isn't about building walls. Real strength is about staying open, no matter what. It's about taking life—with all the pleasures that fade and all the pain that sticks around for too long—and not shutting down, not closing down, not building up those walls.Resilience isn't hard, impenetrable, iron. Resilience is flexible, soft, warm. Stay strong. The real kind of strong. Don't let your automatic mind reflexes make you jump away from pain and towards pleasure. Make choices. See clearly. And never, ever, stop feeling.Don't go numb. The world, even with all its horror, is too beautiful to miss.
— Vironika Tugaleva
We all get scared and want to turn away, but it isn’t always strength that makes you stay. Strength is also making the decision to change your destiny.
— Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost
My religion is Get Over It.
— Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections
Every chance worth taking will make you a little scared. That means you're taking a risk. And where there is risk, there is reward.
— Elise Kova, Crystal Crowned
Apathy is giving up when we need to get up.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You are like that spark of fire, that fell on a leaf and burnt the whole tree down gradually. Look at me now, all you can see is the memories and reflections of a tree that stood tall and strong once before. But I will not let you win. I will show you, how life can rise again from just ashes and dust.
— Akshay Vasu
Grounding is most effective when you have some place to go. When you know where you are going, grounding brings strength and confidence, when you’re stagnant you get caught in the past.
— Tony Curl, Seriously Simple Stuff to Get You Unstuck
Self realization of strengths and weaknesses is the first step towards salvation.
— Mayank S. Sengar, Life and The Grey Notes
You cannot become the greatest without at least a gr- and a test inside of you
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
— Napoleon Hill
There is a power within and without. If you ask, it answers. It's just a matter of being calm and wise and listening. It takes years.
— John  Altman, In the Nick of Time - The Autobiography of John Altman, EastEnders' Nick Cotton
All the words that appear in the inner circle are attributes of God. To develop a relationship with Him we must know the implications of each for our lives. We need truth. His Word contains it. We need the ability to understand the truth. His Spirit will teach us. We need strength to cope with inner turmoil. His is omnipotent. We need a model to follow. Christ is God in human form. We need standards. He is righteous. We need acceptance. He is love. We need to know who is in charge. He is.
— J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities
Fire burned in her heart, and her wounded soul spread out, casting a shadow like wings across her country.
— Kiersten White, And I Darken
Lada made her face stone, her heart a mountain. A mountain that would never be pierced to let cold, clear water flow. “Nothing holds me here.
— Kiersten White, And I Darken
Those same fists had always defied everything expected of her.
— Kiersten White, And I Darken
It was me who had to carry myself over the finish line, and all I needed to remember when I felt like not trying was that that feeling wouldn't last forever.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Problem with Forever
Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity.
— George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
You'll be able to find the strength to love someone just that much again once you've recovered from the heartbreak
— Carrie Hope Fletcher, All I Know Now: Wonderings and Reflections on Growing Up Gracefully
We must go on, because we can't turn back.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
More is less, less is more
— J Ali
...perhaps it wasn't a matter of strength so much as pliability, a willingness to let life become unpredictable and sometimes even unravel.
— Lorna Jane Cook, Outside Wonderland
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes a rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way
— Anonymous
People try to use your past against you not realizing you were using it to propel you.
— Kierra C.T. Banks
The best richness is the richness of the soul
— Anonymous
Please hear me, you are not alone on this planet hurtling through space, solitude is an illusion, come let me help you, rise up, walk forward, walk tall, walk straight, let nothing stop you.
— Danny Scheinmann, Random Acts Of Heroic Love
Our lives are the Journey we take to find our true selves!
— Alyssa Gonzalez
A father gives his child nothing better than a good education
— Anonymous
When two persons are together, two of them must not whisper to each other, without letting the third hear; because it would hurt him
— Anonymous
Just because you are soft doesn't mean you are not a force. Honey and wildfire are both the colour gold.
— Victoria Erickson, Edge of Wonder: Notes from the Wildness of Being
In the process of helping others, I helped myself. In acting out of my own brokeness I became whole again. It's the kind of strength and determination you find when you have hit rock bottom and you realize you could die right now - and want to, but realize that even death won't make the difference you were hoping for.
— Christina Engela, Blachart
People never know what they are capable of until all other options run out.
— Lance Conrad, The Price of Loyalty
the strongest backs bear the heaviest burdens
— Will Bly, Consolation of the Rose
Some folks got a light around them that shine for other peoples. I think that maybe some of them was in tunnels, and in that tunnel, maybe the only light they had was inside of them. And then, even long after they escaped that tunnel... They still be shining for everybody else.
— Sapphire, Push
It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad
—  and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent
She had maintained her strength in the face of all this for so long that we had come to take it for granted, but she wasn't bulletproof. She might've been peculiar but she was also human,
— Ransom Riggs, Hollow City
The best of you are those who are best to the women
— Anonymous