Strength Quotes

If you believe you can achieve your dreams, you find the strength to pursue it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes letting go is not about a lack of faith in God, but a lack in faith that you have it in yourself to pull off the greatest plan he has in store for you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The failure of a person is wrapped in his ignorance about his strengths.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

May you find a new strength to reach out for dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Nothing great could ever be achieved, without personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

~ Marie Lu

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

~ Bertrand Russell

This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the black wood and decide what you’ll trade for power. For the opposite of weakness, which is not strength but hardness. I am a trap, but so is everything. Pick your price. I am a huckster with a hand in your pocket. I am freedom and I will eat your heart.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fullfilment. you should be free indeed when your days are not without care nor your nights without a word and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked unbound.

~ Kahlil Gibran

It really is something ... that men disapprove even of our doing things that are patently good. Wouldn't it be possible for us just to banish these men from our lives, and escape their carping and jeering once and for all? Couldn't we live without them? Couldn't we earn our living and manage our affairs without help from them? Come on, let's wake up, and claim back our freedom, and the honour and dignity that they have usurped from us for so long. Do you think that if we really put our minds to it, we would be lacking the courage to defend ourselves, the strength to fend for ourselves, or the talents to earn our own living? Let's take our courage into our hands and do it, and then we can leave it up to them to mend their ways as much as they can: we shan't really care what the outcome is, just as long as we are no longer subjugated to them.

~ Moderata Fonte

You can love her with everything you have and she still wont belong to you. She will run wild with you, beside you with everystep but let me tell you something about women who run with wolves, their fierce hearts dont settle between walls and their instinct is stronger than upbringing. Love her wild or leave her there.

~ Nikki Rowe

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.

~ Núria Añó

Rise like the hero you were born to be, or die the slave you think you are.

~ Michael Joseph Murano

Dear God, please take the stains off my heart. If there’s even an ounce of pain I feel that someone caused me in the past, I ask that you wash it away. Give me strength, show me forgiveness is the healthiest option for me, and set me free. I pray you give me peace today and every day, allowing me to totally leave my past behind. In Jesus’s name, I pray, amen.

~ Ron Baratono

There are moment of sadness and moment of joy. This is life.

~ Beth Cohen

If you have strength of character, you can use that as fuel to not only be a survivor but to transcend simply being a survivor, use an internal alchemy to turn something rotten and horrible into gold.

~ Zeena Schreck

She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been.

~ Madeleine L'engle

To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication. To be unshakeable is the mark of courage. To be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity. To forgive is the mark of strength. To govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.

~ Eknath Easwaran

If I were a seagullI wouldn't have to stick aroundIf people argued- I would fly off,swerve, wheel, dip, scream.a thousand wings of company if I have friendstwo strong wings of my ownIf I don't

~ Caroline B. Cooney

Freedom without the strength to support it and, if need be, defend it, would be a cruel delusion. And the strength to defend freedom can itself only come from widespread industrialisation and the infusion of modern science and technology into the country's economic life.

~ Jamsetji Tata

Be bold, speak from your heart.

~ Nikki Rowe

I am wealth, prosperity, and abundance. God multiplies this and I give thanks I AM receiving more and more money everyday.

~ Ron Barrow

Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character.

~ Darren Shan

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

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than w

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

~ Thomas Hardy

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

~ Alexandre Dumas

I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

~ Elizabeth I

I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.

~ Terry Goodkind

She has fought many wars, most internal. The ones that you battle alone, for this, she is remarkable. She is a survivor.

~ Nikki Rowe

It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done.

~ E. Nesbit

Abby: You were great. I don't know what I'd have done without you.Dylan: You'd have done fine. That's one of the most intimidating things about you. Abby: Intimidating? Me?Dylan: It isn't easy for a man to get involved with a woman who's totally capable of handling anything that comes along... It isn't easy for a man to believe that there are woman who can not only do those things but enjoy them... [But] it's all natural for you isn't it? It's incredible.

~ Nora Roberts

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

~ Gary Oldman

Harriet loved her new persona. As Maxine, she was courageous and accomplished, a woman of sophistication equally at home in Cannes or on the Indian subcontinent. As Maxine she didn't walk, she strode; she did not merely see, but beheld. The very air she breathed was bracing. Here was a conqueror of worlds.

~ Diane Hammond

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled again? ... I'd love someone to pick me up and carry me off. Frightening. Lindsay assures me I'd start to fidget after a while. She's such a comfort.

~ Emma Thompson

We are relentless. We don't compromise grace. But when we hunt, we're vicious.

~ Frida R.

for frail but surprisingly strong fairies who had lost their way above groundfor burned mermaids and sick vampire girlsfor wild wolfish women with sharp teeth and leaves in their hair

~ Francesca Lia Block

Like a wolf, she lived by instinct.

~ Nikki Rowe