Quotes about Strength

The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.

It's not how hard you pushed along the way. It's having something in you to finish.

The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the ability to act effectively, in spite of fear.

My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.

Love is a commandment, Father Hugo said. It is a choice, a preference. If we love God with our whole hearts, how much heart have we left? If we love with our whole mind and soul and strength, how much mind and soul and strength have we left? We must live this life now. Death changes nothing. If we do not learn to enjoy God now we never will. If we do not learn to praise Him and thank Him and rejoice in Him now, we never will.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at time of challenge and controversy.

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let is destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

All Alone! Whether you like it or not, Alone will be something you'll be quite a lot. And when you're alone, there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants. There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.