Strength Quotes

I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

My strength is my enthusiasm.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from.

There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated certain people poorly at times. It was because of who I was. It was almost my strength. I came in all business. I tried to find ways to fit in with that demeanor, but it's not easy.

I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.

A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.