Strength Quotes

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.

Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.

I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

They just didn't have the sense of the strength of their vote. Just thought it wasn't necessary.

Our passion is our strength.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength.

You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.

I'm probably the least flexible athlete you'll find. When it comes to yoga, I can't get in the positions and I can't hold them. You have to be pretty flexible to do it. Once you get certain positions, you have to have the core strength to hold those positions. It's a pretty good workout.