4,431 Quotes About Strength

And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.

We are strong when the ego softens.

Simple words are the strongest.

Life in general was cruel and offered only different types of voids and chaos. The only way to tolerate it, to have any hope of escaping it, I reasoned, was to know my own strength, to defy life by surviving it.

My people sing, we dance, we love. That is our strength. But we also dig. And then we die. Seldom do we get to choose why. That choice is power. That choice has been our only weapon. But it is not enough.

The strongest people: aren't they the ones with the simplest needs?

The strongest people: aren't the ones with the simplest needs?

I spoke to him in poetry And instead of mocking a tongue he couldn’t understand he took time to learn my language

Next time I cry, it won’t be because I have fallen in love and can’t get up.