Strength Quotes

As a blacksmith uses heat to temper steel, so should a trial by fire strengthen one’s mettle.

The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Rise Like Lions After Slumber,
In An Unvanquishable Number,
Shake Your Chains To Earth Like Dew,
Which In Sleep Had Fallen On You,
Ye Are Many! They Are Few!

Rise Like Lions After Slumber,
In An Unvanquishable Number,
Shake Your Chains To Earth Like Dew,
Which In Sleep Had Fallen On You,
Ye Are Many! They Are Few!

It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Once you face and understand your limitations, you can work with them, instead of having them work against you and get in your way, which is what they do when you ignore them, whether you realize it or not. And then you will find that, in many cases, your limitations can also be your strengths.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.

You cannot suddenly fabricate foundations of strength; you must have been building them all along.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is out helper.

The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

The strong one is not one who can out-wrestle others. Rather, the strong one is one who can restrain themselves when angry.

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

Franz's weakness is called goodness. Franz would never give Sabina orders. He would never command her, as Tomas had, to lay the mirror on the floor and walk back and forth on it naked. Not that he lacks sensuality; he simply lacks the strength to give orders. There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst

Though our communication wanes at times of absence, I'm aware of a strength that emanates in the background.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.