Quotes about Strength

Though we invite, this healing comes in answer to another voice than ours; a strength not ours returns

But there, in her diminishment, she seemed to resemble only herself, as if suffering finally had singled her out.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

She was the captain of her soul

You men,' she says. 'You durn men.

I can stand on my own feet; I don't need any man's mahogany desk to prop me up

It surged up out of the water and stood for an instant upright upon that surging and heaving desolation like Christ.

He had been too successful, you see; his was that solitude of contempt and distrust which success brings to him who gained it because he was strong instead of merely lucky.

The lowly and invincible of the earth—to endure and endure and then endure, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.

It's not men who cope with death; they resist, try to fight back and get their brains trampled out in consequence; where women just flank it, envelop it in one soft and instantaneous confederation of unresistance like cotton batting or cobwebs, already de-stingered and harmless, not merely reduced to size and usable but even useful like a penniless bachelor or spinster connection always available to fill an empty space or conduct an extra guest down to dinner.

As for the fear, you'll have to put up with that like the rest of us.