Khalil Gibran Quotes

Extraordinary circumstances often bring along with them extraordinary strength. No man knows, till the experiment, what he is capable of effecting.

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

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.

Stand and fight for those who are not weak but have yet to discover the strength that the evil of this world has done its best to conceal.

I've always known what I was capable of, which is why I didn't lose my self-belief.

To be strong is to understand weakness. To be weak is to have fears. To have fears is to have something precious to you. To have something precious to you is to be strong.

There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.

Most of us want to be strong, but we are not.

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

You never know the limit of a human being.

It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe. We are stronger and more resourceful than we know, and we can endure much more than we think we can.

No one is ever quite as strong or as weak as you'd think.

I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable. But, there is a side of me that is very put-together, very strong, very capable and very opinionated. It's the two sides of myself.

Many have never felt strong, but everyone knows what it is to feel weak.

People think that I'm tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.

There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.

...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

Sometimes we have to prove to others we're strong even where we're not.

Not to the swift, the race: Not to the strong, the fight: Not to the righteous, perfect grace: Not to the wise, the light. But often faltering feet Come surest to the goal; And they who walk in darkness meet The sunrise of the soul.

She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to