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It is a curious thing, watching a strong man fall to pieces.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Strength is wealth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The calf is capable of walking quite well now," Dazu said. "He never stumbles.""But I told you to carry him back here," the teacher said. "The first thing a soldier must learn is to obey orders."Every day, the calf grew a little heavier, and every day, Dazu had to struggle a little harder. He would collapse, exhausted, when he finally got to the ranch, and the calf would bound out of his arms, glad to be able to walk on his own and stretch out.When winter rolled around again, Médo handed him a wooden sword and asked him to strike as hard as he could at the practice dummy. Dazu looked with distaste at the crude weapon with no edge, but he swung obediently.The wooden dummy fell in half, cut clean through. He looked at the sword in his hand with wonder."It's not the sword," his teacher said. "Have you looked at yourself lately?" He brought Dazu to stand in front of a brightly polished shield.The young man could hardly recognize the reflection. His shoulders filled the frame of the mirror. His arms and thighs were twice as thick as he remembered, and his chest bulged over his narrow waist."A great warrior trusts not his weapons, but himself. When you possess true strength, you can deal a killing blow even if all you have is a blade of grass."Now you're finally ready to learn from me. But first, go thank the calf for making you strong.
— Ken Liu, The Grace of Kings
Though I’m tempted by the call of the sea, I resist. It can’t claim me.In a way I’m stronger than the waves and I feel good about that.
— Darren Shan, Bec
We all eventually find that life is a series of adjustments, but anything can be overcome when there is love around you. Once can be strong on their own, but there is greater strength in knowing when to rely on others.
— Starla Huchton, Shadows on Snow
I believe i am hard as a stone, but even a stone breaks if you smash it real hard.....
— Andy Flynn
If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like
— Anonymous
The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
— William Ellery Channing
It is difficult for a man laden with riches to climb the steep path, that leads to bliss
— Anonymous
He was handsome and strong, but somehow that wasn't enough for him. He also felt the need to be tough and inured to hardship... But how was he to come by that quality in this luminous garden, where all manner of fruit was to be had for the picking?
— Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
Who are the learned? Those who practice what they know
— Anonymous
My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.
— Emery Lord, When We Collided
It took strength to be quiet. It took strength to be kind. It took strength to let other people's cruelty bounce right off of you.
— April Genevieve Tucholke, Slasher Girls & Monster Boys
We are all crazy enough to hear the voices but not strong enough to listen
— Saahil Prem
Failure is a part of life. Success teaches you nothing, but failure teaches you resilience. It teaches you to pick yourself up and try again.
— Sarah Morgan, Sleepless in Manhattan
You can't go back and I think that's the point of all to grow and grow until you don't want to anymore.
— Nikki Rowe
The world was so much more forgiving of strength when it took on the appearance of weakness.
— Robin Wasserman, Girls on Fire
I knew what I stood for, even if nobody else did. I knew the piece of me on the inside, truer than all the rest, that never comes out. Doesn't everyone have one? Some kind of grand inner princess waiting to toss her hair down, forever waiting at the tower window. Some jungle animal so noble and fierce you had to crawl on your belly through dangerous grasses to get a glimpse.
— Michelle Tea, Valencia
...strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them.
— Terrence Real, How Can I Get Through to You? Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women
Sooner  or  later  it  would  happen:  strength  would  change  into  consciousness.
— George Orwell, 1984
Vulnerability has a strength of its own.
— William Zinsser
I'm not fighting for myself anymore.... It makes a difference.
— Christopher Paolini, Inheritance
His life-experiences, and reflections upon them, led Y to believe that the most difficult challenge in life was how to be kind, yet strong. ‘To be kind is not enough,’ he would say. ‘You have to be strong to give to others, and strong to withstand life’s fluctuating fortunes.
— Arnold Zable
It is not easy to let go, but when you do; not only do you realize the strength that lies within you, you also create an opportunity to see God perform the best of miracles in your life.
— Gugu Mona
You can only find strength, if you dare conquer the situation
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am not tough, nor hardened, nor strong. I cannot fight. I do not have what it takes. I can comfort my friends with this gift, but I cannot heal the world with it, and I certainly cannot do battle with an evil sorcerer with it! You are mistaken!
— Mina Marial Nicoli, The Magic of Avalon Eyrelin
You do not need any more strength. You only need to realize how strong you already are.
— Vironika Tugaleva
As for moral courage, it is very rare, he said, to find that kind found at 2 o'clock in the morning; that is to say, courage in the face of the unexpected.
— Napoléon Bonaparte
The next time the world tells you “Stop”, “Don’t”, or “You can’t do this”, the next time the world beats the living daylight out of you, hit it back with a knock just as strong and say, “No, I want to do this.
— Joud Tabaza, No, I Want To Do This
Sometimes troubles make us stronger. We put things in perspective and find priorities.
— Gail Gaymer Martin, Loving Tenderness
YOU will never know your STRENGTH until you overcome the WORST
— Sarvesh
Dancy closes her eyes, remembering all the times that have been so much worse than this, all the horror and shame and sorrow to give her strength. The burning parts of her no one and nothing can ever touch, the fire where her soul used to be.
— Caitlín R. Kiernan
When a person is loved, they are granted the strength of all seas.
— Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love
I lost all I had known and gained a life I was yet to know.
— Nikki Rowe
Develop flexibility and you will be firm
—  cultivate yielding and you will be strong.
... People were never quite what you thought they were.
— William Golding, Lord of the Flies
We are taught that the hero’s journey is the journey from weakness to strength. But I am here today to tell you that those stories are wrong. The real hero’s journey is the journey from strength to weakness.
— John Green
Its hardness and solidity had been an odd kind of comfort. Do not wish for anything. Be and endure. The Old African had learned that enduring was power too, and just as he had been drawn to the boulder, so the slaves, after a while, were drawn to him.
— Julius Lester
But you're so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
You can try to dirty my name, but I'll wear your hate like war paint.
— Madalyn Beck, Dragon Hearts & Dandelion Fuzz
If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness.
— Jack Handy
He studied the woman before him, not as lovely as she once was, ordinary in appearance, scarred by living, abandoned by many, breathtakingly to be near and altogether unforgettable. "I have no friends," she spoke forth hauntingly. "I am alone." He couldn't believe it. But then he could for the rare creature near enough to touch was out of their league. She wasn't envied for the shallowness of appearance or the superficiality of status or possessions; she was envied for being uncommon and for possessing indomitable strength, something only a lifetime of suffering could shape.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Anyone who crawls up from the gutter and makes something of themselves, despite the odds and despite others who tried to keep them down, must always be very proud of their achievements. They must never forget the struggles they went through, because they are a living example to those who wander in darkness, a staunch reminder that light is within reach if they can find the strength and determination to keep going.
— Sarah Brownlee
Miss Benson had the power; which some people have, of carrying her wishes through to fulfillment; her will was strong, her sense was excellent, and people yielded to her – they did not know why.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth
The strength to go on must come from within, not without, or it crushes instead of building up the heart.
— Tara K. Harper, Wolfwalker
As one widow put it to me, “Strength doesn’t mean being able to stand up to anything, but being able to crawl on your belly a long, long time before you can stand up again.
— Mark Matousek, When You're Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living
Would he ever have the strength to stop looking?
— J.K. Rowling
Life has pounded me downand thrashed me around,Time and time again,But I always get right back up,Because I still love life -Just as the earth still lovesThe rain.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness.
— Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar
Taking someone for granted is same as checking the strength of a boat by making holes in it.
— Himanshu Chhabra
Strength is wearing a smile even when you are wailing inside!
— Deeba Salim Irfan
You do not become outstanding by working on your weaknesses You become outstanding by focusing on your strenghts.
— Gordana Biernat
Strength to your arm, then.
— George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Was that his name? I never had a chance to ask. He was too intent upon tearing out my throat for us to engage in idle chitchat.
— John Connolly
I do not know what is going to happen to us. I am frightened but I feel strong. I have the strength of a woman who has everything to loose.
— Erin Kelly Bartelma
She didn't struggle and soshe didn't grow
— Paulo Coelho
To one degree or another we all fight against preconceptions nearly every day. The wisest people I know don't compare their fight to that of others. Everything is relative through the lens of personal struggle.Heroes come in all shapes and sizes... mine are often those who are fighting their fight in public. Unashamed. Proud. An example.Heroes aren't perfect. They have faults and flaws. They stumble from time to time. They are heroes, though, because they correct themselves... and set an example, intended or not, for the world observing them... even, and especially, to those who would love nothing more than to see them fail.Stay Strong!
— Dennis Sharpe
He was a pitiful thing. He had always been a pitiful thing. Why had she never seen that before? There was a hollow place inside her where her fear had been.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Fall seven times. Get up eight.
— Nina Lane, Arouse
If you accept the situation, you will find strength for strategic adaptation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Only the strong soul can accept the truth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Trust your instincts, follow your bliss, make plans, work hard, learn to let things go. Don’t be late. Remember that fortune favors the brave. Live. If you need to run, try and run towardsomething. Study for tests. Laugh at silly cartoons. Be organized. If you fall seven times,get up eight. Always carry an extra pen. Believe you can do everything. Find your key.
— Nina Lane, Awaken
Sometimes you just have to die a little inside in order to be reborn and rise again as a stronger and wiser version of you..!!
— Aagam Shah
Difficulties & Challenges become our strength when we focus the goal.
— Gaurav GRV Sharma
If you focus on the ultimate goal, you will find strength to overcome the hurdles on the path to success
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Trust your instincts, follow your bliss, make plans, work hard, learn to let things go. Don’t be late. Remember that fortune favors the brave. Live. If you need to run, try and run toward something. Study for tests. Laugh at silly cartoons. Be organized. If you fall seven times, get up eight. Always carry an extra pen. Believe you can do everything. Find your key.
— Nina Lane, Awaken
as they mock you due to your loss,you rise back strong and agile to win
— Samuel Gyekye Mensah
Jesus Christ gives strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I don’t have all the answers I need yet, and I’m not ready to give up until I completely understand the purpose I serve and what it is I’m supposed to do.
— K. Weikel, The One-Hundred
I write to give strength to my spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We write to shed our sorrows and give strength to our spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There exists a sacred strength for every great accomplishment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In suffering, we build our strength for the ultimate success.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not waste your life over working. Live a fuller sacred life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The glory of youth is the grace of strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Spirituality is the strength of being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Build your strength in love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you want it enough, you find strength to work for its achievement.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Positive thoughts give positive energy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty, beauty that could break your heart.
— George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Self confident is a sacred strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You have to stretch your soul to find your potential strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Spirituality is the strength of existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The survived souls give strength to the suffering souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am grateful for every situation. I discovered my potential strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Stand tall like a tower.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
As she walks through her problems, miseries and bad days, she couldn't help but notice how her gait has become more poised and elegant. Earlier - she tripped over at the sight of a problem. Now - she keeps her head high and wins over them.Her problems made a woman out of a girl!
— Saru Singhal
Thank God for the grace to work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you failure, do not give up. Find new strength to climb the stairway to success.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The strength of survival in life lies in strong-minded soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Believe. Believe. Believe in thy soul!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Encouragement gives strength to every soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The secret in any situation is the strength of spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Rest leads to renewal of spirit, soul and strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You will be lonely, but you'll become strong.
— Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss
Seek more strength for weaker spine No grape grows on sinner’s vine
— Munia Khan
I won't show weakness here, but, damn it, tears don't mean I'm frail and pathetic, only that I'm unhappy.
— Marianne Curley, Fearless
You possess strength for everyday life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every situation you conquer, you find the strength, your never knew you had.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Justice without strength isn't justice at all.
— Shinjirou, Taboo Tattoo, Vol. 1
Every sphere of life demands enduring spirit and strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Your life is a show and you're the star so don't let anyone walk on set and treat you like an extra.
— Lucas Mascotto-Carbone
You will find the limit of strength with every new situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Anita is small and colourless in her grey trousers, grey knitted cardigan, grey hair and grey skin. But ove notices that her face is slightly red-eyed and swollen. Quickly she wipes her eyes and blinks away the pain. As women of that generation do. As if they stood in the doorway every morning, determinedly driving sorrow out of the house with a broom.
— Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
May you have fresh strength in the spring season.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
May you have a fresh strength in the spring season.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Then a begging brother in a tattered brown robe said a blessing on his sword, and a maid kissed his cheek. 'They are for me,' "Why?" He asked Pate. "What am I to them?" "A knight who remembered his vows," the smith said.
— George R.R. Martin
If you endure every struggle, you will find your potential strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
With strong heart, you will survive life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
She would figure out how to get what she wanted, what she needed, even when her long lashes failed to convince, when her body was no longer young and beautiful. She'd be more than pretty, She'd be strong.
— Kass Morgan, Day 21
The tests we face in life's journey are not to reveal our weaknesses but to help us discover our inner strengths. We can only know how strong we are when we strive and thrive beyond the challenges we face.
— Kemi Sogunle
I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
Flexibility is the greatest strength.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
In suffering, we trust the Saviour to be our strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Every tough situation, toughen the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
With strong heart, you will survive any hardships.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A fool mistakes meekness for weakness and a quiet tongue for an idle mind.
— R.A. Mathis
Run the race of life with your sacred strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In any situation, you can find strength in the Lord.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Self-confidence and self-will are strength for sacred accomplishments.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You cannot break me. My spirit is stronger.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The Lord is the strength of my heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
May your spirit be strengthened.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you cannot sleep, put the sacred energy to use. You can pray, read and write.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God gives strength to the weak souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
That's the thing about rocks--they don't break easily. When I held them, I wanted to be like them-strong and steady, weathered but not broken.
— Ellen Dreyer, The Glow Stone
It takes strength to become weak!
— Evinda Lepins
If your altar is not active, your voice will not be strong
— Steven Chuks Nwaokeke
I will not go back. I may stumble, but I will not fall.
— Aimee L. Salter, Dark Touch
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
— Anonymous
With a strong spirit, you will survive any situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love is the greatest personal force.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is a greater power than human strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Stand firm as surefooted as deer.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
.....My race is Photofinish.
— Farooq A. Shiekh
The glory of life is strength of existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Positive energy, positive work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith is the strength of existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
With the strength of will, you can adapt to any situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not quit, endure and find strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Positive strength, positive action.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Positive spirit, positive strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A man who stands in front of a woman does nothing more that block her view. She needs a man standing next to her.
— Penelope Douglas, Aflame
Root yourself in this earthand it will root itself in you.
— Sheniz Janmohamed, Firesmoke
Resiliency, like a cartwheel, requires core strength and a disregard for gravity. Only one of which can be willed.
— Amy Koppelman, Hesitation Wounds
Even the strongest of opponents always has a weakness.-Itachi Uchiha
— Masashi Kishimoto
I prefer not to elaborate on the various stages of our dealings over the next few days - disbelief, anger, recrimination, the raking up of old sores, bitter silence and so on - but I can say that they gave lasting strength to our relationship, like a thick scar is stronger than the skin around it.
— John  Mole, It's All Greek to Me!: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina--and Real Greeks
Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own.
— Herman Melville
In time of poverty, you alone face is your fate. If your spirit is stronger enough, you will survive.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you want to be strong, smile! He who can smile, even when he's so sad that he wants to die, when it's so painful that he wants to give it all up and run away, is the one who becomes strong.
— Atro Spiker
You’ve gotta believe that the split second that changed your life—the brief moment that took your leg and bruised your melon—can’t be the defining moment of your life. It was just an instant, a flash. Just one second out of millions of seconds. It doesn’t get to own you.
— Jennifer Handford, The Light of Hidden Flowers
Our ministries are strengthened, sometimes more than we realize, by our devotional life.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We must learn to let the Word of God feed us and strengthen us in our faith in God its author, Christ its message, and the Holy Spirit its teacher.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Are your beliefs anchored in a faith that can withstand emotionalism, the drug culture, social and peer pressure, and material temptations? The world is seething with demonic energy. Only supreme inner strength can resist its ceaseless hassling.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We shouldn’t think about ourselves and how weak we are. Instead, we should think about God and how strong He is.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Great souls know the strength of their spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We are powerful beyond imagination.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God will give us the strength and resources we need to live through any situation in life that He ordains.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God takes the weak and makes them strong. He takes the vile and makes them clean. He takes the worthless and makes them worthwhile. He takes the sinful and makes them sinless.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God is in control. He may not take away trials or make detours for us, but He strengthens us through them.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Grief can kill a person emotionally and physically. If not counteracted with God’s strength and power, our personal weakness may debilitate us.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If you let it, pain makes more space for love within you. And the love we carry inside makes us strong when nothing else can
— Mia Sheridan, Grayson's Vow
As God is my witness, as God is my witness they’re not going to lick me. I’m going to live through this and when it’s all over, I’ll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again. - Scarlett
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
I’ve got more faith in my shotgun than any man, that’s for sure.
— Kerrelyn Sparks, The Undead Next Door
As you get older, you have to be willing and able to choose your own path for your life. And once you choose it, you walk it with strength. If you meet evil along the way, know that it is supposed to make you afraid, but it’s not supposed to stop you. You walk through the fear and you walk through the evil, and you don’t let either one become your master.
— Dan Groat, A Punctual Paymaster
It is beyond my human strength. So, I depend on divine power.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The Lord is my strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The power of love is the strength for the heart.
— Lailah   Gifty Akita
Negative thinking saps strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A government that thinks it can remedy personal failure is an intrusion in everybody’s life. No law is going to cure a human’s lack of physical or mental effectiveness. I’d rather see democracy promote strength than reward weakness.
— Dan Groat, A Punctual Paymaster
The spirit of hope will sustain you in every situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
A muscle becomes weak if it is not used. To become strong, a muscle must push against something.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.
— Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
Acknowledge your inner child. Even though we have found the light in ourselves today, we sometimes forget to heal old wounds of our past. Your inner child still needs to be loved in order to heal the complete self.
— Karen A. Baquiran
Find strength in your heartbeat, than weakness with a beat heart. Take each breath as another chance, and love for a new day.
— Anthony Liccione
One must avoid snobbery and misanthropy. But one must also be unafraid to criticise those who reach for the lowest common denominator, and who sometimes succeed in finding it. This criticism would be effortless if there were no "people" waiting for just such an appeal. Any fool can lampoon a king or a bishop or a billionaire. A trifle more grit is required to face down a mob, or even a studio audience that has decided it knows what it wants and is entitled to get it. And the fact that kings and bishops and billionaires often have more say than most in forming appetites and emotions of the crowd is not irrelevant, either.
— Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
For the nearer everything is unto unpassionateness, the nearer it is unto power. And as grief doth proceed from weakness, so doth anger. For both, both he that is angry and grieveth, have received a wound, and cowardly have as it were yielded themselves unto their affections... For it was ordained unto holiness and godliness, which specially consist in an humble submission to God and His providence in all things; as well as unto justice: these also being part of those duties, which as naturally sociable, we are bound unto; and with without which we cannot happily converse one with another: yea and the very ground and fountain indeed of all just actions.
— Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Be curious, confident and courageous.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You have that boy on such a high pedestal. It’s far too slippery up there for one so unprincipled as a solitary fae. It’s not as if I haven’t tried to drag him down. I looked inside his soul. Hoped to find his weaknesses. Only to discover that even those could be considered strengths under the right circumstances.
— A.G. Howard, Ensnared
I'm strong beyond appearances reveal,But I'm human, and have weak moments still.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Reality Check: A Collection of Poems
The strength within you, divine soul, can survive any situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Gefarhrgeist excelled at convincing themselves. It was their greatest strength and most terrible weakness.
— Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption
Poetry’s circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength.
— Delano Johnson, Rare Images of Love
We are, none of us, pillars of strength. We use our moments of strength to carry us through our moments of weakness.
— Neetal Parekh, 51 Questions on Social Entrepreneurship
No situation is beyond the strength within.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
YOUR GREATER ANIMALThey say that if you areEver confronted byA lion or bear,To never act scared.Instead act likeYou are the greater animalAnd that they'reThe hareThat you are aboutTo tear.This has beenProvenAnd compared.This is how presidentsAre lovedAnd feared.Each one of us has an animalWithin usThat is armed withMental,Physical orSpiritual giftsThat could shoot spearsThrough the air.So next timeYou are confronted inA fight that seems unfair,Just remember the lion and the bear.MAGNIFYYour greater animalAnd all that feel your magnificenceWill quickly step awayAnd disappear.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
To shift a few grains of sand is no more a sign of great strength than to see the sun a sign of great sight. There is no glory in dominating the weak.
— Peter V. Brett, The Desert Spear
Weakness or strength: there you are, strength. You do not know where you are going, nor why you are going; enter anywhere, reply to anything. They will no more kill you than if you were a corpse.” In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met did not see me.In cities, suddenly, the mud seemed red and black like a mirror when the lamp moves about in the adjoining room, like a treasure in the forest! Good luck, I cried, and I saw a sea of flames and smoke in the sky; to the right, to the left all the riches of the world flaming like a billion thunder-bolts.
— Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
Once you have endured sufferings, you can give someone strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the person who first turned their back on you can't watch you break down and cry. Never allow an enemy to see weakness in you.
— Ellen Hopkins, Perfect
In social life we hardly stop to consider how much of that daring spirit which gives mastery comes from hardness of heart rather than from high purpose, or true courage. The man who succumbs to his wife, the mother who succumbs to her daughter, the master who succumbs to his servant, is as often brought to servility by a continual aversion to the giving of pain, by a softness which causes the fretfulness of others to be an agony to himself,—as by any actual fear which the firmness of the imperious one may have produced. There is an inner softness, a thinness of the mind's skin, an incapability of seeing or even thinking of the troubles of others with equanimity, which produces a feeling akin to fear; but which is compatible not only with courage, but with absolute firmness of purpose, when the demand for firmness arises so strongly as to assert itself.
— Anthony Trollope
May God grant your a great grace to live the fullness of life in the coming year.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
In your absolute defiance against tyranny, lies and all odds; lies therein, your true moral strength. Rise!
— Mamur Mustapha
When we rest, our energy is restored.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
O Lord gives us strength to do your will.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Every new morning brings new strength, new hope and new vision.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The soul-sacred strength is calmness and confidence.
— lailah    gifty akita
In calmness and confidence, thy strength manifest.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
A single minded vision gives strength of purpose.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Your success does not depend on who you are but what you are and the strength of your expectations.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
We write to give strength to our souls and souls of others.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Single minded vision gives the strength of purpose.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
We don’t exist to survive. We live to strive.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
It is only when you lose your wings, you really learn to fly. Its when the sense of loss, becomes the driving force.
— Mamur Mustapha
The paradox of relaxation is the renewal of mind
—  rekindle of spirit and revitalize of strength.
The thought is just as strong as the consequence.
— Anthony Liccione
In great humility, we find our strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Always she thought of him as climbing some mountain in his mind, like that great one to the west on which his eyes would dwell so often and from which he seemed to derive something that was even more than strength.
— Elizabeth Yates, Amos Fortune, Free Man
It's not about what we go through in life, but how we come out shining on the other side that makes us who we are.
— Samuel B Watson
Taking responsibility for your circumstances. Take responsibility. Be strong enough to admit your wrongs, ask for forgiveness, and think of constructive solutions to solve your problems.
— Kevin J.  Donaldson, 10 Secrets of the New Rich: How To Join The World's New Breed Of Millionaires
In times of suffering, may God strengthen you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When we have suffered a little while, we are restored in strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
If you are weak then it can be your strength
— Herbern Lebumfacil
Your weakness is your strength
— Herbern Lebumfacil
Arise in mighty strength to pursue your dream.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Arise in mighty strength and pursue your dream.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Rise in mighty strength and live your dream.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Though I am faced with many adversities, my heart will not faint.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Let us rise in mighty strength to build the nation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You are a tower of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Hold fast to your faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
— J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
— J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
I shall never forget the African torture victim, a young man no older than I was at the time, who had become mentally ill after all he had endured in his homeland. He trembled uncontrollably as he spoke into a video camera about the brutality inflicted upon him. He was a foot taller than I was, and seemed as fragile as a child. I was given the job of escorting him back to the Underground Station afterwards, and this man whose life had been shattered by cruelty took my hand with exquisite courtesy, and wished me future happiness.
— J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations.
— J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
May you find grace to do what needs to be done.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
It's through difficulty that we must discover our true ability.
— Chris Burkmenn
Next to the dragon, and connected with it, water is the most frequently used symbol in Taosim. It is the strength in apparent weakness, the fluidity of life, an also symbolic of the state of coolness of judgment, acceptance and passionlessness, as opposed to the heat of argument, the friction of opposition, and the emotion of desire. Water fertilizes, refreshes and purifies and it is symbolic of gentle persuasion in government of the state and the individual. It occupies the lowest position, yet is the most powerful of forces. The highest goodness in like water.
— J.C. Cooper
We are all a small part of a puzzle which contains billions of pieces. The puzzle cannot be complete without each and every one.
— Sara Deuidicibus
You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand.
— Mark Twain
Maybe becoming a monster is a sign of strength.
— Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity
We ought to encourage, build and strengthen one another.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Nothing can replace your time and your strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I’d believed I needed to be steady in myself before I could function with others—but surviving alone no longer felt like a good way either.
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
If you read great literature every day, you will uplift your spirit, soul and self.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Inner voice is the divine voice.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Sometimes I fear the strength of Love.!
For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attain.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
No matter what happens, I will always love myself.
— Gabriela M. Sanchez
O Lord, Thy Word, heals my wounds.O Lord, Thy Word, gives me hope. O Lord, Thy Word, strengthens my spirit.O Lord, Thy Word, revive my soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
With diligent practice, you will be an expert.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Freedom is free will.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Encouragement is strength of the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be strong in the Lord.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Grace is a divine strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
O Lord, Thy Word, strengthens my spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The Lord gives strength for every good deeds.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You are on the floor crying,and you have been on the floor crying for days.And that is you being brave.That is you getting through itas best you know how. No one else can decideWhat your tough looks like.
— Clementine von Radics
Become like the sun. If you do so, all darkness will be dispelled. No matter what happens, live confidently with the conviction that you, yourself are the “sun.” Of course, in life there are sunny days and cloudy days. But even on cloudy days, the sun is still there. Even when you are suffering, it is vital that you strive to keep the sun shining brightly in your heart.
— Daisaku Ikeda
Sometimes it felt like no one was ever there for her. Everyone thought she was so strong. And she was, for the most part. But that didn’t mean she never needed anyone to lean on.
— Michelle Madow, Diamonds are Forever
A small kindness, a confluence of compassion, had saved his life. Was that strength, or a weakness?
— Jacqueline Carey, Banewreaker
Tell me, who have never be knocked down by life’s circumstances?
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.
— Haruki Murakami
No, Zahra, dear, no! Gentleness isn’t weakness.’ Her hand, suspended in midair, trembled with emptiness and fell to her side. ‘How easy it is to be bitter or angry; that’s when you’re at your weakest! But when you choose to be kind, to forget your hurt, that’s when you find within the greatest strength of all.’ She smiled, oh, a smile of such ancient wisdom, her face shone with love. She waited, but when I wouldn’t smile back, she walked past me.
— Judy Croome, Dancing in the Shadows of Love
Writing can be a source of strength-Wang Liang
— Xinran, Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
Some are drawn to the light of your strength but can't handle the darkness of your weaknesses. If they run when the light gets dim, don't chase them. They have no understanding of how dark is necessary for light to shine its brightest.
— Sanjo Jendayi
I'm not a size zero, I'll never be a size zero, and the number of fucks I give about that is zero.
— Lauren Gallagher, The Virgin Cowboy Billionaire's Secret Baby
I am a woman of prayer.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I pray that I am sufficiently stirred by the rumor of great things to seek the God who created this single thread that I am, and to marvel at a vision magnificent enough to cause this God to weave from this single thread a tapestry most resplendent.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
Courage to dare,Strength to act.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Our sufferings produce strength of spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The strong version of the adversity hypothesis might be true, but only if we add caveats: For adversity to be maximally beneficial, it should happen at the right time (young adulthood), to the right people (those with the social and psychological resources to rise to challenges and find benefits), and to the right degree (not so severe as to cause PTSD).
— Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
May you find strength for your daily work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Physical activity promotes high productivity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Why do people feel better when they blame someone? I don’t know. Maybe it just feels better to be angry than to be sad.
— Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master
The more you give of yourself, the more you find yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
WISDOM is the STRONGEST weapon you could EVER acquire in your LIFETIME.
— Anonymous
The strength of individual greatness makes a great team.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When flash of hope scans through your dreams. When news of goodness skims the surface of your expectations and bravery abates, break not, keep pressing less the dreams of your fingers suffer extinction.
— Darmie O-Lujon
As long as grace abounds, I will work with all my strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
He can transform the incapability in you to do what the capables, even together, cannot do.
— Steven Chopade
Every new day brings new strength, new dreams and new opportunities.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Love gives strength to the spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
If you have strength, why won’t you work?
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I'm grateful for today. I'm stronger, braver, wiser.
— Tony Curl
We need to simplify life. Do you think grass thinks about who trod on it yesterday? No... It just continues to grow. And so should you. You cannot control who treads on you, but you do control your own growth. Don't ever let others inhibit you!
— Tony Curl
At some time you start to think your dreams are beyond you. The universe is sending you messages to quit... contrary. The universe is simply making sure that it really is something you want. Anything great is worth fighting for. Keep fighting, keep persisting. It is only through persistence that we ultimately succeed.
— Tony Curl
Where you are and what you have been through has you perfectly placed to move forward. Stronger, braver, wiser.
— Tony Curl
Your self-imposed prison. That think called your COMFORT ZONE. Challenge it, stretch it. You will thank yourself.
— Tony Curl
You can get through the storm with your hope in Jesus.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Stay in the race. Keep running. Keep walking. Keep praying. The Lord will renew your strength.
— Jeffrey R. Holland
Keep working while grace abound.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Do all the work while you still have strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
We only radiate the inner self.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The spirit awakens in weakness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You ought to pray for strength to endure every circumstance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
He's the anchor to my boat and I worry that I will float out to sea, directionless, without him.
— Claire Douglas, The Sisters
…one lives and analyses data within a frame, unaware that the solution is most often just outside of that frame. Never underestimate the depth of your subjectivity.
— Darrell Calkins
Turn your fear around. The other side of it is strength.
— C.M. Rayne, The Forbidden Land of Andara
Neither super strength, nor telepathy, nor flight, nor telekinesis, nor any aberrant ability will ever be as great as the innate ability that a woman has when she is able to control her own mind.
— Kenn Bivins, the Wedding & Disaster of Felona Mabel
It is us who change. We grow stronger, and the problems appear less imposing.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Failure is a mindset, not a circumstance. I let my experiences strengthen me. You think I fell on my face, but I’m down here doing pushups.
— Steve Maraboli
For those who have learned what suffering is early on, you have prepared ahead of the pack so that you can take care of the pack.
— Donna Lynn Hope
She was worried these thoughts would crush her if she let them come, but they didn't. You didn't know how heavy they were until you tried to lift them. You didn't know how strong you were.
— Ann Brashares
If you find a FEAR predator on your tail, STOP running, turn and face it, with BOLDNESS and declare,"God has not given me the spirit of FEAR! but of power, and of love and of a sound mind. [2 Timothy 1:7]Take your best shot Devil! then, march on with boldness, confidence, power and strength, as a soldier in the King's army!
— Pazaria Smith
These dogs didn't bother to bond with us, but stuck out their paws, not to shake hands but so we could slit their wrists and get it the hell over with. (p.51)
— Stephanie Powell Watts, We Are Taking Only What We Need
She’d lost so much in the process of becoming Zyne, but somewhere in the middle of it all, she’d found herself. Her heritage had shattered her illusions of a tranquil life. Destiny swept behind in a blaze, decimating everything she tried to hold on to. She was left alone, like the solitary tree standing after a forest fire. She’d thought she would crumble to ash, just another memory on the wind. But as blackened pieces of her cracked and fell away, she saw the truth. Under all that charred wreckage was the heartwood. Bruised. Scarred. But still good. Still capable of growth. When she looked in the mirror, she no longer saw a victim, but a survivor.
— Gwen Mitchell, Rain of Ash
The greatest thing to conquer is self.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
— William James
As you walk your various paths, walk with faith. Speak affirmatively and cultivate an attitude of confidence. You have the capacity to do so. Your strength will give strength to others. Do not partake of the spirit so rife in our times. Rather look for good and build upon it. There is so much of the strong and the decent and the beautiful to build upon. You are partakers of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The gospel means "good news." The message of the Lord is one of hope and salvation. The voice of the Lord is a voice of glad tidings. The work of the Lord is a work of glorious accomplishment.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Her scar tissue, which she seems to amass both physically and mentally, may not be pretty, but they have become tougher than if she had never been wounded at all.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Running away, avoiding life's battles or giving up robs you of the opportunity to grow and be stronger.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason