Best 159 quotes in «being strong quotes» category

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.

To venture into space we must be strong-willed and determined. We must be fully committed to its exploration and discovery; space permits no half measures and is unforgiving of mistakes.

We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.

Whatever is in me is stronger than what is out there to defeat me.

When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.

When it's all said and done, you may go through the fire, through the flood, through the famine, but you'll come out standing strong.

When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticises you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.

Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

You are the strongest when relaxed and at peace

You become a worrier by practicing worry. You can become free of worry by practicing the opposite and stronger habit of faith. With all the strength and perseverance you can command, start practicing faith.

You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

You have to believe in yourself and be strong.

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

A bridge can still be built, while the bitter waters are flowing beneath.

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

Because you see, when you’re a strong person, people often look to you to take care of them. People look to you for help. People look to you for strength. And when your life spins out of control, it’s as if their lives are tied to your own and will come crashing down with yours.

Being strong doesn't mean that you never break! Being strong means that even if you break into a million pieces, you still have the courage to pick those pieces up, put them back together, and keep going on.

Being strong is not just about your physical strength, no, it is about your capacity to handle difficult problem with ease.

Consider your self as a strong person when you have been challenged enough...(think about it) If you have allowed people to continually step all over you,then you deserve to be used as a doormat!

Decebel pulled Jen close in a show of gentleness that she was beginning to notice he only displayed to her. “You don’t always have to be the strong one.” “That’s where you’re wrong, Dec. I do, for them. Sally, Lilly, and at times even Fane. I have to be the one who believes so strongly that we will get her back that I can be sarcastic. That I have the luxury of bringing humor be it light or dark into this majorly messed up situation. And not that we will just get her back, but that we will get her back whole. There are worse things than death to a woman, Decebel.

I am asked what strength is. Strength is the ability to not do to others only the things that were done to you. It is said, that you should “do unto others as you would have them do unto you”, but strength takes that even further and says, “I can give more than what I received in life, I can be more than those who gave me little, I can do more for others than what was done for me.” Strength, though well aware of the pain that is aroused by drawing from a well that is not naturally replenished by others, continues to replenish that well so that it may draw from those beautiful innate waters, so that it may give to others even those things that were not given unto it.

It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things." "Like what?" I asked. My mouth was dry. "I don't know. Like take their hands when the slow song comes up for a change. Or be the one who asks someone for a date. Or tell people what you need. Or what you want.

Life fuck me oftentimes, but I never take it as rape. Because I enjoyed the fuck.

It turns out the mark of a happy life isn't staying just one step ahead of the grim reaper. It's knowing you're strong.

My best advice is this - by the time you meet your Maker, and may it be a long, long time from now, I hope you can close your eyes on a life where you did your damn best and tried your damn hardest. It's not winning that's really winning. It's never giving up.

Rather blessings, after counting my misfortunes, I realized how the more blessed I am.

Tears are handy for washing away troubling and sad feelings. But when you grow up, you'll learn that there are things so sad, they can never be washed away by tears. That there are painful memories that should never be washed away. So people who are truly strong laugh when they want to cry. They endure all of the pain and sorrow while laughing with everybody else.

Knowing how to fall is much more valuable than knowing how to walk.

To become strong, analyse yourself first. You must detect your weaknesses to overcome them.

We grow in part by confessing our faults and weaknesses to each other (James 5:16; Eccl. 4:10). If we are always being strong and without needs, we are not growing, and we are setting ourselves up for a very dangerous fall.

A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough.

True strength is knowing that you don't have to be strong every single second of the day.

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

A person may look strong on the outside, but may need another's emotional support.

A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.