Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.

We can all be weak, but we all have to make a conscious decision to be strong.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

My purpose is far greater than my pain.

Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

I struggle every day to hold on to what little hope I can find.

My mom's one of the toughest ladies I know. I've seen her lose both her brothers, both her parents. She's been through a lot, and to see her get up every day and put a smile on her face, that shows nothing but strength.

He’s stronger than this. He’s always been stronger… (Vane) Even the mightiest oak can be felled by a whisper of a wind if it comes on the heels of a powerful enough storm. (Carson)

Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness

If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!

It's gonna take the man in me to conquer this insanity.

I think about giving up. I almost do.

Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.

Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.

The weaker the country, the stronger the smile.

The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.