Strength Quotes

But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

Physical strength in a woman - that's what I am.

I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.

The strength of America is not in Washington.

Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.