If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like
~ Anonymous
The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
~ William Ellery Channing
It is difficult for a man laden with riches to climb the steep path, that leads to bliss
He was handsome and strong, but somehow that wasn't enough for him. He also felt the need to be tough and inured to hardship... But how was he to come by that quality in this luminous garden, where all manner of fruit was to be had for the picking?
~ Michael Ende
My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.
~ Emery Lord
It took strength to be quiet. It took strength to be kind. It took strength to let other people's cruelty bounce right off of you.
~ April Genevieve Tucholke
Failure is a part of life. Success teaches you nothing, but failure teaches you resilience. It teaches you to pick yourself up and try again.
~ Sarah Morgan
You can't go back and I think that's the point of all to grow and grow until you don't want to anymore.
~ Nikki Rowe
The world was so much more forgiving of strength when it took on the appearance of weakness.
~ Robin Wasserman
I knew what I stood for, even if nobody else did. I knew the piece of me on the inside, truer than all the rest, that never comes out. Doesn't everyone have one? Some kind of grand inner princess waiting to toss her hair down, forever waiting at the tower window. Some jungle animal so noble and fierce you had to crawl on your belly through dangerous grasses to get a glimpse.
~ Michelle Tea
...strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them.
~ Terrence Real
Sooner or later it would happen: strength would change into consciousness.
~ George Orwell
Vulnerability has a strength of its own.
~ William Zinsser
I'm not fighting for myself anymore.... It makes a difference.
~ Christopher Paolini
His life-experiences, and reflections upon them, led Y to believe that the most difficult challenge in life was how to be kind, yet strong. ‘To be kind is not enough,’ he would say. ‘You have to be strong to give to others, and strong to withstand life’s fluctuating fortunes.
~ Arnold Zable
It is not easy to let go, but when you do; not only do you realize the strength that lies within you, you also create an opportunity to see God perform the best of miracles in your life.
~ Gugu Mona
You can only find strength, if you dare conquer the situation
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I am not tough, nor hardened, nor strong. I cannot fight. I do not have what it takes. I can comfort my friends with this gift, but I cannot heal the world with it, and I certainly cannot do battle with an evil sorcerer with it! You are mistaken!
~ Mina Marial Nicoli
You do not need any more strength. You only need to realize how strong you already are.
~ Vironika Tugaleva
As for moral courage, it is very rare, he said, to find that kind found at 2 o'clock in the morning; that is to say, courage in the face of the unexpected.
~ Napoléon Bonaparte
The next time the world tells you “Stop”, “Don’t”, or “You can’t do this”, the next time the world beats the living daylight out of you, hit it back with a knock just as strong and say, “No, I want to do this.
~ Joud Tabaza
Sometimes troubles make us stronger. We put things in perspective and find priorities.
~ Gail Gaymer Martin
Dancy closes her eyes, remembering all the times that have been so much worse than this, all the horror and shame and sorrow to give her strength. The burning parts of her no one and nothing can ever touch, the fire where her soul used to be.
~ Caitlín R. Kiernan
When a person is loved, they are granted the strength of all seas.
~ Simon Van Booy
I lost all I had known and gained a life I was yet to know.
Develop flexibility and you will be firm, cultivate yielding and you will be strong.
~ Liezi
... People were never quite what you thought they were.
~ William Golding
We are taught that the hero’s journey is the journey from weakness to strength. But I am here today to tell you that those stories are wrong. The real hero’s journey is the journey from strength to weakness.
~ John Green
Its hardness and solidity had been an odd kind of comfort. Do not wish for anything. Be and endure. The Old African had learned that enduring was power too, and just as he had been drawn to the boulder, so the slaves, after a while, were drawn to him.
~ Julius Lester
But you're so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
You can try to dirty my name, but I'll wear your hate like war paint.
~ Madalyn Beck
If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness.
~ Jack Handy
Anyone who crawls up from the gutter and makes something of themselves, despite the odds and despite others who tried to keep them down, must always be very proud of their achievements. They must never forget the struggles they went through, because they are a living example to those who wander in darkness, a staunch reminder that light is within reach if they can find the strength and determination to keep going.
~ Sarah Brownlee
Miss Benson had the power; which some people have, of carrying her wishes through to fulfillment; her will was strong, her sense was excellent, and people yielded to her – they did not know why.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
The strength to go on must come from within, not without, or it crushes instead of building up the heart.
~ Tara K. Harper
As one widow put it to me, “Strength doesn’t mean being able to stand up to anything, but being able to crawl on your belly a long, long time before you can stand up again.
~ Mark Matousek
Would he ever have the strength to stop looking?
~ J.k. Rowling
Life has pounded me downand thrashed me around,Time and time again,But I always get right back up,Because I still love life -Just as the earth still lovesThe rain.
~ Suzy Kassem
Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness.
~ Richard Brautigan
Taking someone for granted is same as checking the strength of a boat by making holes in it.
~ Himanshu Chhabra
