Strength Quotes

Sometimes losses in life are not losses at all. They are simply the evidence God provides, in order to build a story so profound, that it will cause social change.

~ Shannon L. Alder

In your very imperfections you will find the basis for your firm, way-seeking mind.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Your heart is yours to give, it is no ones to take. Not a queen. Not a prince. No one.

~ Stormy Smith

Being able to ask for helpis not a sign of weakness,it is a sign of strength.

~ Human Angels

There's a strength in that look, a wilfulness; one would almost call it defiance except that it is so good-humoured. It is the look a woman would wear - would have worn - if she asked a man, a stranger, say, to dance.

~ Ahdaf Soueif

I don't need you, I don't need your shitty false love, I got someone more beautiful, someone more trustworthy, someone who encourages me at every damn point in my life, someone who builds me hell strong, you know who that is, that's pain, and pain loves to be loved, and it loves me back a million times greater. It don't do shit lke you, It don't break my heart, It don't give a goddamn fuck for anyone but just cares hell for me, and I love it because it'll never leave me.

~ Ashutosh Naliapara

Somebody becomes an enemy if you personalize the unconsciousness that is the ego. Non-reaction is not weakness but strength. Another word for non-reaction is forgiveness. To forgive is to overlook, or rather to look through. You look through the ego to the sanity that is in every human being as his or her essence.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Faith is not a hothouse plant that must be shielded from wind and rain, so delicate that it has to be protected, but it’s like the sturdy oak which becomes stronger with every wind that blows upon it. An easy time weakens faith, while strong trials strengthen it.

~ Elizabeth George

What you react to in another you strengthen within yourself.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Allison was at full strength when it came to one thing:attitude.

~ Cinda Williams Chima

Strong faith doesn’t give up, it maintainsthe confession. You can change any hopeless situation with your faith-filled confessions.

~ Brighton Sbusiso Mabuya

She was alone and destitute in a world of pointless carnage. By an eight-hundred-year-old Sepahrdic tradition she ad been since the age of twelve and a half bogeret l'reshut nafsha--an adult wit authority over her own soul. The Torah taught, Choose life. And so, rather than die of pride, Sofia Mendes sold what she had to sell, and she survived.

~ Mary Doria Russell

Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. - Milady

~ Alexandre Dumas

It was like Nils had said, about the little lake on the mountain that had been turned into marsh and the large one that had remained a lake. A being was either strong enough to hold their ground or they became small and bottomless and started feeding on themselves. They turned into something they never saw coming. Something they never intended.

~ Cecilia Ekbäck

Most people who idealize strength are ignorant of how it is acquired. Someone who is in constant agony does not notice a prick of the finger. Profound suffering sets a higher threshold, allowing one to bear with ease that which would have been burdensome before. If you wish to be strong, know first that this is the path of it. -The Holy Scrolls of Soeck, Seventh Binding, Thirteenth Stanza

~ Aaron Lee Yeager

Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.

~ Jared Brock

There is no easy way to do a deadlift—not involving actually picking up the bar—which explains their lack of popularity in gyms around the world.

~ Mark Rippetoe

Strength is gathered on the journey, not granted at the outset.

~ Jared Brock

Strength without compassion is soulless and cruel. Weakness, too, has its place, for it brings understanding.

~ Isobelle Carmody

Shit happens. You can either stand their and complain about the smell or you can wipe your shoe and keep walking.

~ Tommy Cotton

Focus.Such a little word for such a hard thing and yet it can make things so simple, unless you break it. Like glass.Fragile on certain points with enough pressure ore carelessness, but if handled correctly, it’s useful, clear, sharp, and perfect.That’s what I will try to think about, whenever the Beast in me is not in agreement with what I am doing, or how I am behaving, when it threatens to break free, through that very same glass that separates us.I need to be exactly like this window: smooth, cool, strong, and impenetrable.Focus.

~ D.s. Wrights

you don’t put demands on people and you never say anything negative--ever. So many people suck the life out of everyone they’re around, but you don’t do that. You give people strength just by being you.

~ Matthew Quick

Because of course, for every revelation of weakness, there had to be an equal and opposite show of strength.

~ Jane Casey

Begin when you have the strength. You have it now, therefore the best time to begin is now.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I was just a girl again, but this girl didn’t owe her strength to fate or chance or a grand destiny. I’d been born with my power; the rest I’d earned.

~ Leigh Bardugo

I have a thing for things that last.

~ Criss Jami

Isn’t it time that, loving, we freed ourselves from the beloved, and, trembling, endured:as the arrow endures the bow, so as to be, in its flight, something more than itself?

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

I'm not offended until you think I'm offended.

~ Criss Jami

Persistence is the source of great strength.

~ Debasish Mridha

someday we will forget the hardship, and the pain its cause us; we will realise, hurt is not the end. lessons appear to teach us strength, we learn happiness is an inside job and to cure our insanity we must not fear what is to come, but believe in what we've been taught.

~ Nikki Rowe

Clearly it's not easy for women in modern society, no matter where they live. We still have to go the extra mile to prove that we are equal to men. we have to work longer hours and make more sacrifices. And we must emotionally protect ourselves from unfair, often vicious attacks made on us via the male members of our family.

~ Benazir Bhutto

Man is weak. Purpose makes him strong.

~ Raheel Farooq

Politics doesn’t mean playing deceitful and trickery games against the people, it means playing resourceful and organized games for the people.

~ Amit Kalantri

The way my tia looks at Raul is the way I look at Martin. He makes her happy and helps her see that she is stronger than she thought she was. It's not that he makes her stronger, but he definitely helps her see that she has been strong all along.

~ Isabel Quintero

I fell in love with you like the stars fell in love with the sky, without you I am empty and bare.

~ Seja Majeed

Isn't it time that, in love, we freed ourselves from the loved one and, trembling, endured:as the arrow endures the string, collecting itselfto be more than itself as it shoots?

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

When you live by God’s Word, your life works. When you live without God’s Word, life doesn’t work. God’s Word builds you up, feeds your soul, and gives you strength, direction, guidance, hope, encouragement, and faith. Remember that He gave you His Word so that you would know Him and the way He wants You to live.

~ Stormie Omartian

Public strengthens politics but politics weakens public.

~ Amit Kalantri

One does not need to be a good fighter to put up a good fight.

~ P.k. Shaw

You must nurture a close walk with God through prayer, because humility’s strength is grounded in God.

~ Jim George