Quotes about Strength

May your morning be a beautiful one, with the sun shining on your soldier's armour, for in the afternoon I will defeat you.

You're crying? I'm a woman of the desert, she said, averting her face. But above all, I'm a woman.

So it was in life. In order for the more substantial pieces of wood to catch fire, the kindling must burn first. In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself. In order for us to understand the powers we carry within us and the secrets that have already been revealed, it was first necessary to allow the surface expectations, fears, appearances — to be burned away.

what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.

Circumstances do not make you what you are, they reveal what you are.

The strength and clarity of your vision will lift you out of the depth of any hardship.

The size of a person is more important than the size of the problem.