Strength Quotes

While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.

As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.

I spend around two and half hours on the track every day running and another 2 hours in the weight room lifting weights with my strength coach.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.

Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.

My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less; but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart, and with the whole soul; with all his strength and with all his will.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.

With a houseful of kids you give each other strength.