Quotes about Strength

Do not think you can frighten me by telling me I am alone. France is alone, and God is alone; and what is my loneliness before the loneliness of my country and my God? -Joan

Tapferkeit wird dadurch nicht schlechter, dass sie ein wenig schwerfällt.

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

While the heart beats, bruise it--it is your only opportunity

I thought it was all over with me, and there was nothing to try for—only things to endure.

It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you deny now will assault like a savage appetite.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

The growth of higher feeling within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength. We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than a painter or a musician can wish to return to his cruder manner, or a philosopher to his less complete formula.

Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on.

Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth.