Wallace Stevens Quotes

If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us - all of us, but we can do this. Together, we can do this. We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do this.

We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.

Crises test us. We either fall apart or we grow up fast. Finding new reserves of strength and capacity that we never knew we had. The shocking events that fill us with dread today can transform us, and they can transform the world for the better. But first we need to picture the world that we're fighting for. And we have to dream it up together. Right now, every alarm in our house is going off simultaneously. It's time to listen. It's time to leap.

The strength of Europe at the end of the day has always been that we stuck together and that demands a great amount - probably even more so than in the past - of discussions, of balancing, of bringing along individual countries.

I would just say that human beings are stronger together. Relying on someone else is not a sign of weakness; it shows strength that you're able to accept that you need help.

Every team boat will have its disagreements and arguments, but if it doesn't kill us or the boat, it will make us stronger.

The weak can never forgive.

We are stronger together. We are stronger together in facing our internal challenges and our external ones.

Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil.

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.

Giants. We must face them. Yet we need not face them alone.

Let the sky fall, when it crumbles - We will stand tall - Face it all together

It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker.

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

The Mexican people, you cannot explain this wealth, this history, this joy, the capacity to celebrate amid these tragedies that you have asked about. I can say another thing, that this unity, that this people has managed not to fail, not to end with so many wars, things, things that are happening now.

Kitty: I thought your ladyship was ill. I wanted to help you. Lady deWinter: I ill? Do you take me for a weak woman? When I am insulted I do not feel ill - I avenge myself. Do you hear?