#strength

My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one. ↗

— Olaf Stapledon

#strength #worst #beauty

Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#foolish #strength #beauty

They were amazing, fierce, beautiful children. ↗

— Adam Gidwitz

#courage #strength-of-character #beauty

How I wish you could have known me in my strength. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#brave #courage #fortitude #grace #inspirational

Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#defence #destruction #doubtless #effected #function

The More you do the better you become ↗

— Dena Tyson

#dena-tyson #give-me-the-strength #inspirational #stroke #courage

I prefer to suffer than repent because I stand by my decision and capable enough top pay for it Or reap the beauty later. ↗

— Ravindra Shukla

#character #decisions #strength #youth #beauty

Witnessing the Vette’s demise, the way Rick felt, there wasn’t a king on Earth who he would bow to. No religious figure whose hand he’d kiss. No icon of history he’d worship. No one whose autograph he’d seek. He was becoming a legend, and he was alive to feel it happen. ↗

— Rich Hoffman

#strength-and-courage #courage

When we build on our strengths and daily successes — instead of focusing on failures — we simply learn more. ↗

— Tom Rath

#strengths #business

Elizabeth was counting on Marco to keep cousin Mary occupied until after the board meeting was over. A piece of cheese might catch a mouse, but an afternoon alone with a muscular masseur would ensnare her cousin far more effectively. And afterwards, while Mary lay sated and sleeping upon a massage table, wiser heads could determine the company's future. There were times, Elizabeth thought, when success in business demanded utter ruthlessness. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#success-strategies #women-s-strength #business