Quotes about strength
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“Sasori, your strength came because of your soul, not in spite of it… You were supposed to be a a top-class ninja puppeteer, not a worthless nobody who lets someone else pull the strings.
- Kankurou (Naruto Ch 518)”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

Soul

“Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out?”

Marisha Pessl (1977) American writer

Source: Night Film

Love, Fear

“You are the male I might have been. You are the potential I had and lost. You are the honor and the strength and the kindness she needs. You'll take care of her. I want you to take care of her.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

“Calvin: Know what I pray for?
Hobbes: What?
Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

28 Aug 92
The Days Are Just Packed
Source: The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

Change

“If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Life

“If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.”

Ben Okri (1959) Nigerian writer

Source: Birds of Heaven

Love, Wisdom

“Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.”

Alain Badiou (1937) French writer and philosopher

Source: Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

Evil

“Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.”

T.S. Eliot book The Waste Land

Source: The Waste Land and Other Poems

Hope, Despair

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

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Beauty, For Parents, People, Beauty

“For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

Light

“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 book Revolution

Source: Revolution

Death, Music, Time

“And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Fear, Understanding

“It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

Secret

“But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.”

Ernest Hemingway book Islands in the Stream

Source: Islands in the Stream

Intelligence, Animals

“All I need is the power to be able to protect my comrades. So long as I can have the strength to do that, I don't care if I'm weaker than everyone in the world.”

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Fairy Tail, Vol. 1

World

“I hated myself for needing him at such times, for craving his strength whenever I felt upset.”

Kathy Reichs book Déjà Dead

Source: Déjà Dead

Hate, Time

“… love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Love the One You're With

Love

“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

“There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

Women, Men

“A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Source: My Story

Love, World, Strong

“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Soul, Personality

“Money doesn’t mind if we say it’s evil, it goes from strength to strength. It’s a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.”

Martin Amis book Money

Novelists in Interview (1985) edited by John Haffenden
Source: Money

Money, Evil

“It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Truth, Courage

“Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? Maybe in a perfect world. But not in this one.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

World, Boy, Personality, Perfection

“people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

People, Communication

“George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Death, Men, God, People

“Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work”

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (1956) spiritual leader

“Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Help

“The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.”

Gene Roddenberry (1921–1991) American television screenwriter and producer

Shown at the end of the episode "Scorched Earth", no. 14 in the 3rd season of Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict, first aired on February 7, 2000.

War, Fight

“A scar is a sign of strength… the sign of a survivor.”

Laurie Halse Anderson book Chains

Source: Chains

“I look forward to a great future for America, a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past, and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

1963, Speech at Amherst College

Wisdom, Beauty, Nature, Past

“Ye always carry your women wi ye into battle, Ian Og. They're the root of your strength, man.”

Diana Gabaldon book Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Source: Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Women

“My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one.”

Olaf Stapledon book Odd John

Source: Odd John

Beauty

“Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything”

Lance Armstrong (1971) professional cyclist from the USA

Communication, Knowledge

“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

Perseverance

“Allah tests our patience and our fortitude. He tests out strength of faith. be patient and there will endless rewards for you, insha'Allah" - Utaz Badr”

Leila Aboulela book Lyrics Alley

Source: Lyrics Alley

Faith, Patience

“And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.”

James Clavell book King Rat

Source: King Rat

Food

“She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

Flowers

“It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.”

Mary Stewart book The Hollow Hills

Source: The Hollow Hills

Love, Death, Women, Secret

“Take my hands,” Alec said. “And take my strength too. Whatever of it you can use to— to keep yourself going.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“She'd expected some backlash; it happened every time she shared her strength. But she hadn't anticipated so much raw anguish from Nico di Angelo… If this was only a portion of Nico’s pain… how could he bear it?”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Pain, Time

“People do not lack strength, they lack will.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Deep, People

“I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss the pounce. One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

Life, God, Religion, Drawing

“As he bent closer, he realized they were words -- words his wife had carved into the cave ice with the last of her dying strength. As he read them, he felt them like three hard blows in the stomach.
KILL THE CHILD”

Holly Black book The Iron Trial

Source: The Iron Trial

Reading

“What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

Pain, Beauty, Evil, Joy

“What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Love, Life, Men

“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 (1931) American writer

Source: Love & Guilt & The Meaning Of Life, Etc

“I know there is strength in the differences between us,
And I know there is comfort where we overlap.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

Overlap
Song lyrics

love, Cute, Romantic, For Her

“I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Smile

“…as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.”

Carl von Clausewitz book On War

On War (1832), Book 3

“If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead.”

Sena Jeter Naslund (1942) American writer

Source: Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer

Life, Suffering, Time, Dead

“For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.”

Robin Hobb book Ship of Magic

Source: Ship of Magic

Strong

“Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

Life, Death

“I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. They are the real heroes, and so are the families and friends who have stood by them.”

Christopher Reeve (1952–2004) actor, director, producer, screenwriter

Still Me (1999); also quoted at the Christopher Reeve Foundation http://www.christopherreeve.org/site/c.geIMLPOpGjF/b.1097025/k.6FF5/Christopher_and_Dana_Reeve.htm <br class="br">Context: When the first Superman movie came out, I gave dozens of interviews to promote it. The most frequent question was: What is a hero? My answer was that a hero is someone who commits a courageous action without considering the consequences. Now my definition is completely different. I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. They are the real heroes, and so are the families and friends who have stood by them.

Family, Thinking, Perseverance

“Separately they had different strengths. Together they were complete.”

Lisa Kleypas book Dreaming of You

Source: Dreaming of You

“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Variant: No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come

Idea, Time