Strength Quotes

"I learned that self-pity is a luxury I could not afford"

"I am done being apologetic for my existence"

"I am Circe. I bow to no one."

"Mortification makes the flesh more vulnerable to despair."

"I learned that I was not powerless, merely untrained."

"In isolation, I discovered my greatest strength."

"My monsters were born from my pain and my determination to never be powerless again."

"I am not ashamed of who I have become."

"Growing old is not for the faint of heart."

"A man's pride can be both his strength and weakness."

"In her final years she came to take on an abstract quality, as though she were a living metaphor for human capacity for denial."

"A man has to have standards, or what is he?"

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."

"Strength comes from the things that break us."

"My power was not in my beauty, but in my will."

"I would not apologize for what I had become."

"I would not be the victim in my own story."

"She had penetrated the labyrinth of certainties of an unbridled woman and had emerged unscathed."

"A man has to have standards, even if no one else cares anymore."

"Old age isn't for the faint of heart."

"Nobody's worth saving if they won't save themselves first."

"I would not change my nature for love or mercy"

"I am not beautiful in the way my family is, but I am powerful"

"I learned that difference is not a flaw, it is a power"

"My voice was the last thing I would ever give away"

"The strength of a man is measured by his capacity to dream"

"A woman's love is a fortress no war can conquer"

"There is a limit to what even a noble soul can endure."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places"

"Liesel's voice was soft and kind, but underneath it was steel. She would not be broken by this war."