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Strength Quotes
"I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing."
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"She said, 'No, you learned that you have power - power and determination. I love you and I am proud of you. With those two things, you can go anywhere and everywhere."
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"Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life's problems when you count them as joy."
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"Within you lies your strength."
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"A calm lion is still more dangerous than a raging dog."
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"The treasures of life is hidden in troubles."
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"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work."
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"In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike."
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"I didn't scream I wasn't afraid. I knew I was strong enough to survive it all."
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"Do not run away from your challenges. You must endure and overcome each challenge."
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"Weakness drives us to set goals, to try harder, to put forth more effort, to dream and wish and hope, to reach out further and down deeper, to pray earnestly, to cry mightily, to understand and empathize with valid sincerity. In truth, weakness is a catalyst for greater strength."
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"Prim, let go," I say harshly, because this is upsetting me and I don't want to cry. When they televise the replay of the reapings tonight, everyone will make note of my tears, and I'll be marked as an easy target. A weakling. I will give no one that satisfaction."
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"I was promising myself strength.I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it."
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"On Andrew Jackson: "His native strength compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reach; and the more cunning the individual might be, it served only to make him a sharper tool."
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"Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them."
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"All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him if he front it not bravely it will keep its word."
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"Be joyful in tribulations."
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"Strength is not only about winning the game, it's also about not giving-up."
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"I would fight of course. Oh, I would fight. Better destroy everything than surrender her."
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"My courage is faith--faith in the eternal resilience of me--that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does I've got to keep my lips shut and my chin high and my eyes wide--not necessarily any silly smiling. Oh, I've been through hell without a whine quite often--and the female hell is deadlier than the male."
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