Quotes about Strength

The act that anything evil puts forth is due to the strength of goodness, but a deficient goodness. For if there were nothing of good there, neither would there be any being, nor any action: again, if the goodness were not deficient, neither would there be any evil.

Against this defect man was provided with a remedy in the tree of life; for its effect was to strengthen the force of the species against the weakness resulting from the admixture of extraneous nutriment.

I had bad back injuries; two bulging discs and a broken fragment off a disc, all in my sciatic nerve.

There's no excuse to give up the hand you're dealt. You've just got to keep fighting and make something positive out of it.

My father had no fear. He wasn't afraid of any man on earth.

I have no fear of anyone.

If for no other reason, God sometimes allows us to suffer pain so that we can comfort others suffering in a like situation.

Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.

When I have my interview with God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics that matter in measuring my life.

In sacrificing for something worthwhile, you deeply strengthen your commitment to it.

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

A man who for years had thought he had reached the absolute limit of all possible suffering now found that suffering had no limits, and that he could suffer still more, and more intensely.