Strength Quotes And Sayings

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“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
– Jane Austen, Persuasion

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I can bench press steam, but not fog. I just have to wait until the fog lifts itself.”
– Jarod Kintz

“Strength isn’t about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.”
– Jennifer Armintrout

“I’m wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it’s stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.”
– Jennifer Donnelly

“Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal.”
– Jerome Fleishman

“You feel your strength in the experience of pain.”
– Jim Morrison

“Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength – and the honesty – to break them down.”
– Jodi Picoult

“When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”
– John F. Kennedy

“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
– John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
– José N. Harris

“Bottom line is, even if you see ‘em coming, you’re not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can’t help that. It’s what you do afterwards that counts. That’s when you find out who you are.”
– Joss Whedon

“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of the pieces.”
– Judith Viorst

“You can’t really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.”
– Ken Kesey

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
– Kenji Miyazawa

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
– Lao Tzu

“You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear. I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.”
– Lauren Oliver

“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you. ”
– Lev Grossman

“Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”
– Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– M. Kathleen Casey

“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.”
– Mary Wollstonecraft

“The weaker you are the louder you bark. -Tenten”
– Masashi Kishimoto

“The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.”
– Max Lerner

“Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go. ”
– May Sarton

“Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
– Maya Angelou

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
– Maya Angelou

“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
– Michael J. Fox

“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.”
– Michael Jordan

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