Being Strong Quotes

“It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“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.”
― Hideaki Sorachi

“It's a hard life if you don't weaken.”
― Stephen King

“Gabril’s voice was strong and sure. “I believe in you, and I’ve fought for you, because in a world full of people who crumble before an evil too terrifying to comprehend, you put up your fists and fight.”
― C.J. Redwine, The Shadow Queen

“Anyone can fail at something they really don’t want. What really takes courage is going after something you want and then failing. There is more fulfillment in life knowing that you tried, rather than settled without a fight.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“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.”
― Henry Cloud, Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't

“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.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Reality is a dream that someone was brave enough to conquer.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“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.”
― Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery

“Knowing how to fall is much more valuable than knowing how to walk.”
― Diogo Mainardi, The Fall: A Father's Memoir in 424 Steps

“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.”
― Quinn Loftis, Blood Rites

“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.”
― Manprit Kaur

“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.”
― Robyn Carr, Any Day Now

“You have such a difficult time showing your heart," she muses. "You think being strong is the only way to survive. You never know when to ask for help. You never have.”
― Liz Fenton, The Two Lila Bennetts

“You walk into any situation with an attitude that you’ve got this, you can defend yourself, you are strong.”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Proposal

“Strength isn’t something we all naturally have, it is something we do and then become”
― Rachel D. Greenwell, How To Wear A Crown: A Practical Guide To Knowing Your Worth

“In talking with people that have experienced it, I learned that PTSD is something that a person in a position of authority sometimes thinks they’re not supposed to have. They don’t always have an avenue to personally address it or even discuss it.”
― Stana Katic

“To become strong, analyse yourself first. You must detect your weaknesses to overcome them.”
― Eraldo Banovac

“Success is not found manning up a gun, but manning up!”
― Mark Dawson, When It Sucks It Blows

“She counted on herself to withstand everything. And yet, who said she had to? What would happen if she broke down now and then?”
― Elizabeth Mckenzie, The Portable Veblen

“She knew it was up to her to say what had to be said. To do what had to be done. When there is only you, you do not get to choose which jobs you want, you do not get to decide you are incapable of anything. There is no room for distaste or weakness. You must do it all. All of the ugliness, the sadness, the things most people can’t even think about, all must live inside of you. You must be capable of everything.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“When you are friends with your storm, you dance, instead of getting blown away.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Rather blessings, after counting my misfortunes, I realized how the more blessed I am.”
― Anthony Liccione

“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.”
― Robyn Carr, Any Day Now

“I guess it felt … nice having someone like that, someone wealthy, wanting me like that. He made me feel…” She shrugs.

I remember the feeling I always had, walking arm-in-arm with Nick at school.

“Valuable,” I say, brushing on the base eye shadow. “He made you feel valuable.”

She nods. “Yeah. I guess that’s it.”

I say, “I think that you are way too valuable for Arnold Mikloshevsky and his clammy hands.”


She nods. “I know you’re right. But sometimes it’s hard to believe that. It’s so hard to find someone who loves you for yourself, and not just because you’re pretty or act the way they want you to act.”

I think of Sean. I have that with him. Yes, he’s a friend, but he’s a good friend.

“Are you okay?” I say.

She nods. “I think I’m getting better.” She takes out a different lipstick and holds it near my face, then recaps it. “Oh, Caitlin, he really was a toady little man, wasn’t he? Every time he kissed me, I’d think, Valerie McCourt, has it really come to this?”

I giggle, then stop myself. “He kept looking at my boobs.”

“Mine too—and he had some boobs of his own, let me tell you!”
― Alex Flinn, Diva

“Premonition is the greatest ammunition.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“When you are lost in the dark, remember the darkness of the night, and how it helps to make the stars shine.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Anything that makes me weak, even if it is my love, I will destroy it.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“When a person is strongest is not when she is strong for herself, but when she is strong for those she loves!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I never pick one, to prove my talent.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar