Quotes about Strength

And if it's proud to have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts,' Miss Jenny struck in, flushed, 'she is proud. And if it's not, she is NOT.

remember how strong we are in our happiness, and how weak he is in his misery!

Power, unless it be the power of intellect or virtue, has ever the greatest attraction for the lowest natures.

Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.

It is always the secure who are humble.

But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will always get ahead. Edwin Markham said, "At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm." The cyclone derives its power from a calm center. So does a person.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

David replied to the Philistine, "You come to me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of Heaven's Armies.

Purpose gives perspective to your pain and powers you through it. Without it, your pain can paralyze you.

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

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.