232 quotes found
“Though these young men unhappily fail tounderstand that the sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest ofall sacrifices, and that to sacrifice, for instance, five or six years oftheir seethin...”
“Having recovered from an inexplicable moment of weakness Claire was on the defensive, ready to bite. I had the impression that she was now looking for a chance to demonstrate her strength, or her h...”
“Theyd scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own termsnot just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating.”
“Welcome Beauty, banish fear.”
“A sword wields no strength, unless the hand that holds it has courage.”
“You wake up in this here world, my sweet li'l mister, you got to wake up tough. You go out that front door tough of a mornin' and you stay tough 'til lights outhave you learned that?”
“Sometimes in this world, all you have is YOU!Stand strong and tall. No one will do it for you”
“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heros or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our fut...”
“She had inherited a story that was strewn with corpses and clotted with enmity, and was only trying to stay alive in it.”
“the truth she gathered, enlarging her strength, enlarged likewise the composure that comes of strength.”
“To Be Trained Is To Be Strengthened”
“To marry and have children, that is the common lot of women. Only one woman in a hundred--more, in a thousand, can make for herself a name and position as you have done.”
“Strength is seeing yourself as you are.”
“Most of us think we can hide our weaknesses from the world, and sometimes, we're right. But only if we're very very strong.”
“That is true strength. To want what you have, and not what someone else is holding.”
“Team spirit fuels individual strength for a mutual success.”
“A persons emotions should be the strength, should not be the weakness”
“You know your strengths but you must know your weaknesses more.”
“We all get scared and want to turn away, but it isnt always strength that makes you stay. Strength is also making the decision to change your destiny.”
“She had maintained her strength in the face of all this for so long that we had come to take it for granted, but she wasn't bulletproof. She might've been peculiar but she was also human,”
