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Finally I was able to see that if I had a contribution I wanted to make, I must do it, despite what others said. That I was OK the way I was. That it was all right to be strong.
— Wangari Maathai
I learned that I was never alone, that there was Someone always very close by and, indeed, within me, giving me strength in times of weakness and desolation, light in times of darkness, joy in times of great sorrow and pain, and the will to struggle on when continuing seemed futile.
— Joseph F. Girzone, My Struggle with Faith
And what some people don't understand was that bleeding wasn't a sign of weakness; it was a sign of strength. It demonstrated to the world that you were vulnerable and ordinary, but when you wanted something enough, and fought hard for it, you were capable of doing extraordinary things.
— Natasha Ngan, The Elites
The world is a cruel place, Petrosinella, and it wounds the weak.
— Kate Forsyth, Bitter Greens
The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies - and our species deserves the credit. I am a devout atheist - nothing else makes any sense to me and I must admit to being bewildered by those, who in the face of what appears so obvious, still believe in a mystical creator. However I can see that the promise of infinite immortality is a more palatable proposition than the absolute certainty of finite mortality which those of us who are subject to free thought (as opposed to free will) have to look forward to and many may not have the strength of character to accept it.Thus I am a supporter of Amnesty International, a humanist and an atheist. I believe in a secular, democratic society in which women and men have total equality, and individuals can pursue their lives as they wish, free of constraints - religious or otherwise. I feel that the difficult ethical and social problems which invariably arise must be solved, as best they can, by discussion and am opposed to the crude simplistic application of dogmatic rules invented in past millennia and ascribed to a plethora of mystical creators - or the latest invention; a single creator masquerading under a plethora of pseudonyms. Organisations which seek political influence by co-ordinated effort disturb me and thus I believe religious and related pressure groups which operate in this way are acting antidemocratically and should play no part in politics. I also have problems with those who preach racist and related ideologies which seem almost indistinguishable from nationalism, patriotism and religious conviction.
— Harry W. Kroto
Friendship love. This is a very special thing. It’s the sort of love where you know another being’s strengths and weaknesses, perfections and imperfections, and you love the whole package.
— Angelo Dirks, Seven Dogs in Heaven
If Strength comes through Suffering, why then I should be the strongest of all women, yet I am the weakest. God help me. Help me.
— Lee Smith, On Agate Hill
Tranquility is not weakness
—  from tranquility emerges power and strength.
Stupidity isn't the only thing humans carry inside of them. I'll show you that we also have the power to purify.
— Yellow Tanabe
Break a bone..and as the broken part heals it becomes the strongest part in it....get hit by a virus, survive that and "supposedly" it can never get u again... observe how ur skin that gets rubbed on a surface often becomes thicker and more rough with time ....remember how naive you were before and with each incident and accident with people that you've had ..it brought you to the "knowing better" person you are now............you cant be stronger..if life doesn't try you every now and then ....and after each trial..it promises a stronger more immune version of you
— Eman Farouk
She needs you for more than just protection. It's how it works. You want the strong girl, you understand that she's with you because she wants to be. Not because she has to be. You know that, right?
— Rachel Caine, Fall of Night
Some say God is living there [in space]. I was looking around very attentively, but I did not see anyone there. I did not detect either angels or gods....I don't believe in God. I believe in man - his strength, his possibilities, his reason.
— Gherman Titov
I did not need him to survive. He inspired me to find that strength in myself.
— Chrissy Moon, Surreal Ecstasy
So many years of being lonely and discounted, no one ever truly seeing me, the person that I really am. The Gabriella I so desperately wanted to be. Yet somehow he broke through the walls and barriers and penetrated my frail, dejected heart. He loves me for all that I am and what I will become, even though it scares us both to death. He accepts the darkest parts of me and doesn't try to change me, in all my shattered complexity. Meeting him has given this facade of my life new meaning. He's given me purpose, strength. He's given me love. Dorian has given me everything and, in turn, is everything to me. Designed by the Divine Power especially for me.
— S.L. Jennings, Dark Light
I was once told that sometimes out of limitation comes our greatest strength.
— Carol McKay, Second chances: true stories of living with Addison's disease
I am doing what is right and from my heart against all odds.
— Karen Todd Scarpulla, Walking Toward the Light: A Journey in Forgiveness and Death
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
— John Paul Jones
I am a strong individual that may seem weak; but, my strength is in my ability to stay in the fight and sure my enemies that I can take the punches; and, still stay strong in my weakness. Because within time God will turn my weak persona to my strength. I will be able to show myself and others that being strong in a weak persona is a sign of humility.
— Temitope Owosela
Success can be defined as how hard you continue to fight when they tell you that the battle is over.
— Mark W. Boyer
If you can get life outta love, you should die trying to get love outta life.
— Shane Rainey
I am not powerless.
— Ky Grabowski, 2013: A Stellar Collection
True strength comes from the mind and spirit.
— Drew Karpyshyn, Children of Fire
I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had.
— Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Dithyrambs of Dionysus
Always remember, wherever you are, whether near or far, you had a mother who really, really loved you. The original mother. Once you've found your true inner guru you can never again be divided. Perfect union with the divine, through the grace of your real teacher, transcends time, space, death and all worldly limitations. Your real teacher is the original mother - regardless in which manifest or non-manifest form, or gender, she appears. The one who nurtures you and the one who also, out of wisdom and compassion, corrects you if you are misguided.
— Zeena Schreck
The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.
— Christian D. Larson
The man who never weakens when things are against him will grow stronger and stronger until all things will delight to be for him. He will finally have all the strength he may desire or need. Be always strong and you will always be stronger.Picture in your mind your own best idea of what a strong, well-developed individuality would necessarily be, and then think of yourself as becoming more and more like that picture. In this connection it is well to remember that we gradually grow into the likeness of that which we think of the most. Therefore, if you have a very clear idea of a highly developed individuality, and think a great deal of that individuality with a strong, positive desire to develop such an individuality, you will gradually and surely move towards that lofty ideal.
— Christian D. Larson
Nicci looked up at Kahlan. “Knives are not my talent.” “It’s not hard,” Kahlan said as she pressed the handle into Nicci’s hand. “When the time is right, just stick the pointed end somewhere important in someone you really don’t like.
— Terry Goodkind, Confessor
I’ve never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don’t let it out. Then there’s a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy.
— Diane Von Furstenberg
I'm not surprised he wants to challenge me here, where no one can protect me. He thinks I'm a weak woman. He thinks wrong.
— Heather Day Gilbert, God's Daughter
I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
— André Gide
One of the greatest lies ever told is that there’s no power in vulnerability.
— Dianna Hardy, The Last Dragon
It’s called an inner voice for a reason. It’s the gnawing feeling inside your stomach telling you yes or no. It’s the one voice in your life that isn’t tampered by other’s biased opinions, scars, feelings or thoughts. Go with it, you know yourself better than anyone ever does.
— Hope Alcocer
When I met you — somehow you healed me. From the inside out, the outside in. We conquered fears together, we learned, we laughed, and we loved. I swear, you caused my heart to soar more in the past few months than it has in my entire existence. My heart is whole because you chose to share yours with me, and it’s for that reason that I get down on not one, but both knees…” I knelt in front of her and gripped her hand. “And say thank you. Thank you for saving my life, thank you for loving me enough to treasure your own, and thank you for being my strength when I had none. I’d like to think our hearts are joined — forever entwined — but considering that’s not technically a legal joining, I have a question for youMarry me? Make me the happiest man alive.” I opened the box revealing my mom’s ring.
— Rachel Van Dyken
For years, i lived my life, waiting for the other shoe to drop... i thought control was something i could have over my life. My goal was to live life, in such a way, that i would never again have to suffer any form of trauma or abuse that would remind me of my painful past. I was living life on a tightrope of tension. I was only happy when things went smoothly and came apart at the seams when i was thrown a curveball.NOW, i realize, that the key to happiness is surrendering to the illusion of control. And to trust that, no matter what happens to me, i have the infinite inner-wisdom and strength to find my way through.
— Jaeda DeWalt
The strength was always in you. All you had to do was find it.
— Katherine Givens, In Her Dreams
His lips brush my ear as his voice causes my body to come to attention. “If the night never ends, then there’s never a new day … and with a new day comes renewed hope, light.
— J.B. McGee, Skipping Stones
One thing I’ve learnt about humans: you can’t judge their strength by the size of their actions, but by the devotion of an act, no matter how small.
— Dianna Hardy, The Last Dragon
Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.
— Susan Gale
She had taken many more punches to both body and soul than anyone should ever have to endure. But she had been able to rebel every time.
— Stieg Larsson
Fate lies in our hands, its just that we need to be brave enough to read it & desire enough to change it
— Anamika Mishra
It is just the old way--that of obedience. If you have ever seen the Lord, if only from afar--if you have any vaguest suspicion that the Jew Jesus, who professed to have come from God, was a better man, a different man--one of your first duties must be to open your ears to His words and see whether they seem to you to be true. Then, if they do, to obey them with your whole strength and might. This is the way of life, which will lead a man out of its miseries into life indeed.
— George MacDonald, The Marquis' Secret
I can do ALL THINGS through Christ who empowers, enriches, equips, enlightens, energizes, recreates, revives, promotes, strengthens, purifies, sponsors, and prepares me! Yes, I can... ALL THINGS, I can!
— Israelmore Ayivor
The greatest battle you must undertake, the foremost battle you must wage, the most important battle that there is, is the battle of courage versus fear – and there can be only one victor – that victor must be you and courage, or it shall be the dark side and death.
— Kevin Michel, Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams
All he'd learned was that love was a jewel with too many facets to count. Strength and weakness running side by side through it. And that no one could give or take it with any less than an open hand.
— Nora Roberts, Heart of the Sea
Those who are not free to live as they choose are second class citizens. The weak will lose everything to the strong, even their lives.
— Naoyuki Ochiai, Syndrome 1866 Vol. 4
Then Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak.
— Code of Hammurabi 1772 B.C.
My strength was returning as we went on. It occurred to me then that it was in times of struggle that I found the best parts of myself-courage, loyalty, an unexpected peace- and I always discovered what I needed to break through and go on.
— Patrick Carman, Stargazer
Too much work will create too much motivation for the strong, and a big collapse for the weak! Strength gets great strength from the challenges!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I'd think, maybe he truly is something extraordinary. He's what he is, that's it. Maybe that makes him strong enough, being what he is.
— Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.
— Bear Grylls, To My Sons: Lessons for the Wild Adventure Called Life
I vowed that I would never tell anyone of my shame. They say that when you kept a secret, it eats you up inside, but I felt it was better that way. I wanted to appear strong in front of my children and my family. I didn't want anybody to know. And I would maintain my persona as Jenni, the Rivera Rebel who had never lost a fight. But deep down inside I knew I had lost a piece of myself that I would never recover. My soul had been shattered, but to the outside world I did just as I had been taught since I was a little girl; I kept my head up and continued forward. It is, after all, the Rivera way.
— Jenni Rivera, Unbreakable: My Story, My Way
The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.
— Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
That’s exactly what I’ll do, I thought to myself. After dinner, I’m going to ask BigBrother to teach me how to read this map. With Aunt Baba still in Tianjin, there’sobviously nobody looking out for me. I’ll just have to find my own way.
— Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Success comes with failure which leads to doubts but with determination we can still achieve.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
The strength of your obstacle determines the weight of your potentials. The greater your potentials, the heavier your dunamis power must be.
— Israelmore Ayivor
A nation is not defined by its borders or the boundaries of its land mass Rather, a nation is defined by adverse people who have been unified by a cause and a value system and who are committed to a vision for the type of society they wish to live in and give to the future generations to come.
— Fela Durotoye
A man's strength was supposed to be against the outside world: to fight it back from himself and those he took under his protection: his wife, his children, and for a man strong enough, more people still, people like his employees. To turn it inward, against the very people you had been given that strength to protect, because you couldn't deal with the outward fight, was the ultimate weakness.
— Laura Florand, The Chocolate Touch
Do not lower the standard or cater to the worldly laxness of the average Christian by making the way in easy. Make sure that everyone who joins fully understands his duties and obligations and is willing, in Christ's strength, to undertake them.
— Isabella MacDonald Alden, Chrissy's Endeavor
We all have vices, visible and invisible. Some we deliberately keep secret. Others we don’t even realize or we refuse to admit we have…Vices can be lots of fun, or they can turn your life into a living hell. Accept them for what they are, just another aspect of the mind’s creation, and you can enjoy them—if you choose—without being broken by them.- Zeena Schreck for VICE Magazine
— Zeena Schreck
... scar tissue was the strongest tissue in the human body.
— Madeleine L'Engle, Certain Women
In order to move forward, you will have to stumble along the way, but every falter in your stride just makes your next step even stronger.
— Lindsay Chamberlin
That's why I hate the concept of falling in love. It makes you weak. It takes away your strength. Your power. Your rational sense. EVERYTHING.
— baka_usagi, Forbidden Apple
...whatever happens I'll not be afraid again; for, when you've once pushed through the place of torment to the peace beyond, you know that you can do it again. You know there's a strength somewhere that you can call upon. You've confidence.
— Elizabeth Goudge, The Castle on the Hill
Realize your strengths, accept your weaknesses, but never become someone you don't recognize.
— Lindsay Chamberlin
You know how the Eclipse of the sun shows it? Christ's strength eclipses your powerlessness in God's likeness, and there is total darkness on your weakness.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Strength, strength is what I need; nothing can be done without strength; and strength must be gained by strength.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
When we help others to perform at the highest level of their potential, we receive something of value; our character is strengthened.
— Ellen J. Barrier
The tough challenges we encounters, makes us stronger, and wiser. With each victory we gain something of value; our character is strengthened.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Everyone including YOU suffers when you refuse to BE all & DO all you can
— Fela Durotoye
I believe challenges are God's way of strengthening us mentally and spiritually, and yes, physically. After having won each challenge that confronted us, we are wiser and stronger.
— Ellen J. Barrier
A strength is a lot like oxygen. We don't really pay much attention to it - unless it's missing.
— Julie Winkle Giulioni, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want
The end is near when your strength becomes the source of discomfort.
— Manish
Withheld potential is a "CRIME TO HUMANITY
— Fela Durotoye
So I'll be bold, as well as strong, and use my head alongside my heart.
— Mumford & Sons
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
— Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones
Most of us, I believe, admire strength. It's something we tend to respect in others, desire for ourselves, and wish for our children. Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words—like 'aggression' and even 'violence'. Real strength is neither male nor female; but it is, quite simply, one of the finest characteristics that a human being can possess.
— Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
What I want from you is simple. I want today only.If it’s laughter, I want it. If it’s pain, I want it.Whatever today holds, as long as the day holds you, I want it.I want today only.
— D. Love, Today Only
Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.
— James Gavin
In bullfighting there is an interesting parallel to the pause as a place of refuge and renewal. It is believed that in the midst of a fight, a bull can find his own particular area of safety in the arena. There he can reclaim his strength and power. This place and inner state are called his querencia. As long as the bull remains enraged and reactive, the matador is in charge. Yet when he finds his querencia, he gathers his strength and loses his fear. From the matador's perspective, at this point the bull is truly dangerous, for he has tapped into his power.
— Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
Bad feeling is a country no woman want to visit. So they take good feeling any which way it come. Sometime that good feeling come by taking on a different kind of bad feeling.
— Marlon James, The Book of Night Women
The prideful man qualifies himself by what people think of him, always looking for applause. There is another proud man; head bloodied by the world but eyes focused on what is good, never caring about spectators or the cost. He is proud that his wife can laugh, that his children can play, humbled by their love for him. His prayers say, "Please make me worthy of them" - In humility lies the foundation of strength.
— Lee  Goff
Never let kindness be your weakness, never let your weaknesses be your downfal
— V. Pain, Hear Me Roar
Life is a race, and what matters most isn't when a person crosses the finish line, but how strong they've grown along the way.
— Jen Stephens, The Heart's Journey Home
We know the end is overrated, we'll become the walls we raise. We don't believe enough, but we still care.
— Matchbox 20
I want to listen to accomplished women scarred by sexism that still walk in elegance and kindness; hear powerful men that have a heart to serve. I want to talk to the brokenhearted that still believe in love; I want to listen to people that laugh even when they hurt. You live God's grace without even knowing it and to me, you're the best of all of us.
— Lee  Goff
The yard consisted of grass and a Russian Olive tree, which was about the only kind of tree able to survive on the high prairies. Its thin, grey leaves made it look as though it were on the verge of dying, thereby fooling the elements and the bad weather into thinking that they didn't have to bother with something so spindly and bent, something so obviously on its last legs.
— Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
...bands fall out. But at the end of the day, they're like family. You get back together because you have to, because you're stronger together than you are apart.
— Antony John, Five Flavors of Dumb
Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. While I have life, as long as I draw breath, I shall deny with all my strength, and hate with every drop of my blood, this infinite lie.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
They did not suspect her for a moment. It did not occur to them that a woman could be dangerous. How foolish they were. Women could do most of the things men did. Who was left in charge when the men were fighting wars, or going on crusades? There were women carpenters, dyers, tanners, bakers and brewers.
— Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth
We had something few experience. We were joined in our strengths rather than in our weaknesses.
— Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
Great men have great discipline.
— Habeeb Akande
Life is too short not to show your truest form EVERY day... Live it, Like it, Love it and then push for more ~~
— Jennie L. Hopkins
God gave man the strength to conquer the world, but God gave woman a vagina to conquer man
— Treasure Blue, Fly Betty
...[T]wo of you can be no match for the three giants, I will find you, if I can, a third brother, who will take on himself the third share of the fight, and the preparation...I will show him to you in a glass, and, when he comes, you will know him at once. If he will share your endeavors, you must teach him all you know, and he will repay you well, in present song, and in future deeds.'She opened the door of a curious old cabinet that stood in the room. On the inside of this door was an oval convex mirror...we at length saw reflected the place where we stood, and the old dame seated in her chair...at the feet of the dame lay a young man...weeping.'Surely this youth will not serve our ends,' said I, 'for he weeps.'The old woman smiled. 'Past tears are present strength,'said she.
— George MacDonald, Phantastes
[his healing skills] ..lay in the ability to comfort, to comfort in the proper sense, to make strong, to fortify
— Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus
This is not about going back. This is about life being ahead of you and you run at it! Because you never know how far you can run unless you run.
— Penny Chenery Secretariat
There is strength in numbers, yes, but even more so in collective good will. For those endeavors are supported by mighty forces unseen.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
I might not be physically strong.But I do believe that to survive, I need to be strong-willed.Which is more important in life?
— Michelle Horst, Visions and Shadows
To take command, one must first create the illusion that command is already yours.
— Denise Domning, Winter's Heat
There are two bonds formed – belonging together and suffering together.Which bond will withstand the true test of Darkness?
— Michelle Horst, The Land of Shadows
Those of you who are convinced that you missed your calling, open all doors keep the entrance way clear. This way you will not miss that next call.
— Victoria Addino
Past tears are present strength.
— George MacDonald, Phantastes
You may think you know someone very well. But there'll always be parts you can't see. Sometimes she'll look weak, but she is hiding her strength. Sometimes she'll seem strong... and yet she's so fragile on the inside.
— Kiiro Yumi, Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 8
If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
The worst disability in life is a bad attitude.
— SupaNova Slom
We have the greatest power through love that can be known. It overcomes everything with its fierce and steady truth, if you can continue to stand in it.You can call love to you, directly from the original stream of consciousness, anytime you feel weak or fearful, and you will be given strength and courage.You can call love to you, directly from the original stream of consciousness, anytime you feel sad or alone, and you will feel embraced and comforted.Call love to you if you feel vulnerable. Feel its purity come to you from the universe and flow round you like a miraculous mother cradling its innocent child.Breathe love in. Say to yourself as you breathe deeply “I love. I am loved.” Say it over and over as you breathe it into yourself and out to the universe, until you really feel and believe that you ARE LOVE.Feel love pour into your lungs as you breathe. Feel it circulate round your body to fill every organ, every limb, and every cell. Vibrate with its radiance, and share it.
— Jay Woodman
I respect the hell out of her for how hard she’s working to be okay. I just wish she’d let me show her how to let go, how to let herself hurt. I want to take her pain.
— Jasinda Wilder, Falling into You
Then he told Perry that love was like the waves in the sea, gentle and good sometimes, rough and terrible at others, but that it was endless and stronger than the sky and the earth and everything in between.
— Veronica Rossi, Through the Ever Night
The same Everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day of your life. Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace then, and put aside all anxious thoughts.
— Francis de Sales
Shizuo Heiwajima, the strongest man in Ikebukuro: "I just want the ability to control myself. That's the kind of strength I want.
— Ryohgo Narita, Durarara!! Saika Arc, Vol. 1
I do not need the strength of your arm to make a knight of you, Gavin. All I need is your heart, and that you have given,' the Prince said.
— Chuck Black, Kingdom's Call
Hot heart-blood leaked from my face. From my eyes and my nose and my mouth. Not tears, because those would never stop. This was just liquid heartbreak seeping from my pores.
— Jasinda Wilder, Falling into You
The woman looked out at the madness of the world and dared to hope. Her eyes were burning coals of stars.
— Rivera Sun, Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -
Cultivate clarity, strength, vitality and power from natural, beautiful and organic living foods.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Grass that is here today and gone tomorrow does not require much time to mature. A giant oak tree that lasts for generations requires much more time to grow strong.
— Henry T. Blackaby, Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God, Workbook
I don't admire the person who hides from the world and claims enlightenment. To be purified you have to be tested and there is no better test of strength than dealing with other people.
— Donna Lynn Hope
How I wish you could have known me in my strength.
— Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
....let her be loved not only for her beauty and amiable character, but also for her strength of mind and loftiness of purpose, which enliven and raise the feeble and the timid and ward off all vain thoughts. Let her be the pride of her country and let her command respect.
— José Rizal, Liham para sa Kababaihan ng Malolos
I may have power but I do not have strength.
— Rebecca Ethington, Eyes of Ember
We need to begin to see hyper-masculinity as the disorder it is, and not as a strength.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
words are much stronger than I am.
— Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
Happy endings are for people that can't survive the alternative. What a bunch of wimps.
— S.L.J. Shortt, Revelations
Let your strength from the pastprovide proof of your abilities to . . .conquer the difficulties of the present.
— John-Talmage Mathis, For the (Soon) Unemployed: You Against Them
God Lord, give me strength. Please keep the local firefighters away from me. Keep me out of the path of hardened abs and tall men in uniform, for they are bastards, one and all. Amen
— Rosanna Leo, Up In Flames
Inner strength of character cannot be measured by any means but performance in the time of need.
— K.L. Toth
One should remember that where nobody flees, there is no pursuer: that where there are no little fish, there can be no big ones. Why does the girl not require her lover a noble and honoured name, a manly heart to protect her weakness, and a resolute spirit which will not be satisfied with engendering slaves? Let her discard all fear, behave nobly and yield not her youth to the weak and faint-hearted.
— José Rizal
The strength of a woman far exceeds the brawn of a man. ~Lisa Antonio
— Lisa Antonio
I wish I would have been there for you.” He finally found his voice. “I wish I would have been there to beat up all the children who bullied you, to shoot your father dead the first time he broke one of your bones. I wish I would have been there to sweep you out of town and save you from the horrors you went through.”Her eyes widened in surprise and then immediately narrowed as she shook her head. “I didn’t need to have a hero in my life, Mark. I needed to figure out how to be my own hero. I took the easy way out. I allowed small-town people to label me and then I did my very best to live up to the label they’d provided. It’s taken me thirty-seven years to realize I don’t need a hero. I’m all I need and I’m strong enough to build the rest of my life alone.
— Carla Cassidy, A Profiler's Case for Seduction
We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we don’t have to stay down.
— Steve Goodier
I you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror. Look a little closer, stare a little longer. Because there is something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit. You built a cast around your broken heart and signed it yourself, you signed it THEY WERE WRONG.
— Shane L. Koyczan
Levels are just numbers. In this world, strength is just an illusion. There are more important things -Kirito
— Reki Kawahara
On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
Take down the walls.
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem
You’re free to dream however you wish,” Nollin teased. “But don’t ask the rest of us to share your unrealistic—”“Then don’t ask us to share your weakness!” Jason interrupted.
— Brandon Mull, Chasing the Prophecy
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
— Ben Jonson, Timber: Or Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter
I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.
— Terry Pratchett, The Long Earth
His strength kept me moving forward, and it was also tearing me apart.
— Rebecca Donovan, Reason to Breathe
Believers are achievers, therefore believe and achieve!•	Believe that you are responsible for your own accomplishments God deposited in you!•	Believe that success is not luck; it is the result a deliberate effort to do a hard work!•	Believe that prayer works through faith and action!•	Believe that great people took great steps. Weak people took weak steps!•	Believe that you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you!
— Israelmore Ayivor
If you will but aspireYou will attain to all that you desire.Before an atom of such need the SunSeems dim and mirky by comparison.It is life's strength, the wings by which we flyBeyond the further reaches of the sky.
— Farid ud-Din Attar, The Conference of the Birds
But the walls of my resolvemortared with stubbornnesshave been breached by circumstancesI cannot handle alone.
— Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams
God gave the day, God gave the strength.
— Leo Tolstoy
I find it funny that you could pass the same person on the street, in a store, or even in your neighborhood many times before actually meeting, thinking you’ve never seen them before, but when you are finally introduced, they seem to pop up everywhere.
— Courtney Giardina
There is no feeling that is comparable to that of being truly lost. I don’t mean lost in the woods, or desert, but lost in the way that only can happen internally. Lost to the deepest,blackest pit of your soul, clinging to ghosts of past times, when you thought you knew who andwhat you were. When this happens, you have two choices; you can give in to your darkest inclinations,and accept what you are, or you can fight, knowing that it is a losing battle, that the good halfof your soul is strong, but can never erase the bad part.
— H.D. Gordon, Half Black Soul
If all the world spoke, acted, or kept silence with intent to deceive, --if dearest interests were at stake, and dearest lives in peril, --if no one should ever know of her truth or her falsehood to measure out their honour or contempt for her by, straight alone where she stood, in the presence of God, she prayed that she might have strength to speak and act the truth for evermore.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
You make the world come alive. You make the world colorful. You are the inspiration behind all that happens. You are the pillar of strength to many around you, the centrifugal force of your own little world, called family. I love being a women and celebrate being one everyday, hope you all do too!! And to all those who battle their various circumstances, the hurdles, the sacrifices and the compromises they make, wish them all inner strength! Happy Women's Day!
— Deeba Salim Irfan
I mean, that was the code, wasn’t it? Single girls and taken guys weren’t allowed to be friends. The leash always got in the way.
— Carrie Butler, Strength
One second she’s all timid, and then reeoowr! Hellcat.
— Carrie Butler, Strength
bad days makes you stronger, those are the best days because God is talking to you. you just have to listen closely. Don't let your tears become louder than his voice.
— Les Simple
Unconditional love, is love, regardless anything; attainable or impossible.
— Anthony Liccione
All because I fell in love with a madman.
— Carrie Butler, Strength
I think it's because it shows that people--or hobbits, as the case may be--can find strength they didn't know they had.
— Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club
It was then I truly realised the whale is no more a fish than I am. So much blood. This was not like the fish on the quay, fresh caught, lying flipping and flopping, death on a simmer. This was a fierce, boiling death. She died thrashing blindly in a slick of gore, full of pain and fury, gnashing her jaws, beating her tail, spewing lumps of slime and half-digested fish that fell stinking about us. It was vile. So much strength dies slowly.
— Carol Birch, Jamrach's Menagerie
My hopes for pie died on the sidewalk. There went my grin.
— Carrie Butler, Strength
It is hard to lose the people we love ,but feeling sorry they died is selfish.Dying is going heaven home to God we know your papa is in heaven with our Lady and Jesus.Let us try to be happy for him.
— Maryanne Raphael, What Mother Teresa Taught Me
She did not suspect that the Abbess was even there hovering about the house, herself estimating the stresses and watching for the moment when a burden harms and not strengthens.
— Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Any noble cause will encounter its share of setbacks. The strength of that cause is measured in how the men who fight for it respond. We refuse to give up, which is why we will prevail eventually.
— D.B. Jackson, Thieftaker
The military is only as strong as the other institutions supporting it.
— Michael DeLong, A General Speaks Out: The Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
In this one terrified moment, my mind couldn’t focus on any of it. “I’ve forgotten everything.”“No, you haven’t.” His voice in the darkness was calm and reassuring. He smoothed back my hair and pressed one of those half kisses to my forehead. “Just relax and focus." “His reasonable words centered me and allowed the gears of logic that ran my life to take over again.
— Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
I've lost a lot in my long life. Yes, I've seen pain and I've seen strife. But I'll never give up; I'll never let go. Because I'll always have my ray of hope.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
I'd discovered that the sun equated happiness. Its bright and lovely existence was hope incarnate. It exposed the dark, brought forth the light and showed you that no matter how strong or oppressive the night was, that it was infinitely stronger, exponentially more substantial and just because you couldn't see it with your eyes, didn't mean it wasn't still with you. it was stalwart and constant. It was infinite.
— Fisher Amelie
Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.
— Anna Gavalda, Someone I Loved
It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things." "Like what?" I asked. My mouth was dry. "I don't know. Like take their hands when the slow song comes up for a change. Or be the one who asks someone for a date. Or tell people what you need. Or what you want.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Thank you for loving me like you love me. Thank you for showing me that we don't always have to be strong to be there for each other--that it's okay to be weak, so long as we're there.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
There will be days that I don't think we'll know how to survive. But we will, because we have each other.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later.
— Jane Lindskold, The Buried Pyramid
It’s very difficult to follow our dreams, but it’s even more difficult to forget them.
— Rahul Rampal
Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Ask us for any help you need...Let us be strong for you.
— Juliet Marillier, Son of the Shadows
Today you had a very important lesson on taking punches. A lot of people will tell you that the first thing you have to learn is how to take a punch. But I believe the first thing you should know is that you can take one and survive. A punch won't kill you. Conquering your fear is the first step to becoming a powerful fighter.
— Robert Sharenow, The Berlin Boxing Club
When you understand who God is, you can see beyond a shadow of a doubt why your weakness is nothing to be feared, because it just leaves more room for him and his strength.
— Hayley DiMarco
No matter who we are, where we live, what we look like, the circumstances of our birth or the situations we face; each of us has gifts within us. Strength, beauty, courage, compassion, hope, joy, talent, imagination, reverence, wisdom, love and faith are among them. They are not like material presents we unwrap and hold in our hands. We can’t see these gifts with our eyes. But they are real and powerful. When we open ourselves to them, they can enrich every aspect of our lives. They can help us transform challenges into opportunities and tragedies into triumphs. They can help us make a difference in the world.
— Charlene Costanzo, The Twelve Gifts for Healing
Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.
— Ray Dalio
I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes.
— Joyce Carol Oates, I'll Take You There
sometimes the only thing wrong with you is thinking something's wrong with you.
— brenda mazzarella
Strength is not just in muscle and bone," Rovender said"That is right," Soth added. "Emotional strength is more powerful.
— Tony DiTerlizzi, A Hero For WondLa
But the healing place is within you. Healing is a gift you were granted at birth, just as you were granted others. Use your gifts, child. Use the beauty, the courage, the hope and the love that is in you. Call upon your strength. Use compassion and faith. Even during sad times joy is within you. Bring it forth. Wisdom is there to guide you. Use any one of your gifts and you will rouse the power of your healing place. Use all of them and you will sustain it.
— Charlene Costanzo, The Twelve Gifts for Healing
The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it's silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it’s understandable).
— Ray Dalio
Death is only as strong as you believe it to be.
— Amy Neftzger, The Orphanage of Miracles
Devo farmi le ossa is how they say it in Italian. “I need to make my bones.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
You’ll do fine if you have any strength at all, but listen to your Green angel and give yourself more exit points. You’re in for some rude awakenings in battle, and young souls often retreat under fire. You’ll end up trying to find a shortcut back home and that always makes a big mess.
— Dawn Jayne, Uprising
People think doping is for lazy people who want to avoid hard work. That might be true in some cases, but in mine, as with many riders I knew, it was precisely the opposite. EPO granted the ability to suffer more; to push yourself farther and harder than you'd ever imagined, in both training and racing.
— Daniel Coyle, The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs
I prefer to suffer than repent because I stand by my decision and capable enough top pay for it Or reap the beauty later.
— Ravindra Shukla
Sometimes she couldn't tolerate a man's physical superiority. No wonder they were so damned macho.
— Margaret Way, The Carradine Brand
When we first believe we think we can do it all; our passion is so strong. But after a time we start to learn that passion doesn't equal strength, and our sinful nature rears its ugly head.
— Hayley DiMarco
Sometimes it seems that men--yes, and even women too!--if they believe in a thing strongly enough, they get a strength or endurance that they wouldn't have believe possible.
— Carter Dickson, The Cavalier's Cup
We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not.
— Tommy Tran
One of the most powerful lessons in life is to recognize that no one can give you power, and many people don’t want you to have it. You have to find the courage to seize it, own it and hold on!
— Shannon L. Alder
It's easy to point out other people flaws, but it takes TRUE courage and strength take a look in the mirror, admit personal flaws AND strive to do and be better. That's growth!
— Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried:  A Memoir
In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women's capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her.
— Andrea Dworkin
Before the beginning of yearsThere came to the making of manTime, with a gift of tears;Grief, with a glass that ran;Pleasure, with pain for leaven;Summer, with flowers that fell;Remembrance, fallen from heaven,And madness risen from hell;Strength without hands to smite;Love that endures for a breath;Night, the shadow of light,And Life, the shadow of death.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads  Atalanta in Calydon
When the winds of life are pushing you back, THAT'S when you push forward the hardest.
— Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried:  A Memoir
A partner to share the ups and downs with. Honor and strength, and knowing you're stronger together than apart
— Donna Alward, Hired by the Cowboy
God has ALREADY given you the strength you need, it's up to you to recognize that you were BORN a conqueror!
— Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried:  A Memoir
Now he could say for sure that he'd never known a feeling stronger than that of being at one with another person - that rare feeling of not being alone anymore.
— Guillaume Musso, Que serais-je sans toi?
If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, [Pure, hard, certain] — in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal.
— Savitri Devi
Isn't it funny how ignorance is the source of strength of so many?
— Lionel Suggs
The more loving we can be, the more powerful we become.
— Silvia Hartmann
Running is a big question mark that's there each and every day. It asks you, 'Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?
— Peter Maher
I look around the room at some of the familiar faces and some of those who are still strangers to me. Somewhere deep within, I find the strength. The strength I was born from, that I never knew I possessed. ~Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE
— Courtney Nuckels, Exposing ELE