Quotes about Strength
I do not fear my vulnerability because I no longer confuse it with weakness.
— Isabel Allende
This is a road I must travel bleeding.
— Isabel Allende
If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.
— Thomas a Kempis
If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.
— Thomas a Kempis
Too much happens ... Man performs, engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
— William Faulkner
Suffering has always been with us, does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.
— Etty Hillesum
Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
— Lou Holtz
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
— Samuel Johnson
We must act in spite of fear ... not because of it.
— Anonymous
His Christianity was muscular.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Valour is nobleness of the mind.
— Anonymous