‘Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.’ – Virginia Satir

‘Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.’ – Napoleon Hill

‘Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.’ – Mattie Stepanek

‘That which does not kill us makes us stronger.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.’ – Helen Keller

‘Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.’ – Buddha

‘Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.’ – Christopher Reeve

‘Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.’ – Saint Francis de Sales

‘Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.’ – Winston Churchill

‘Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.’ – W. H. Auden

‘Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.’ – Walt Disney

‘As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.’ – Mike Tyson

‘When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.’ – Peter Marshall

‘Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.’ – William Barclay

‘I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.’ – Leo Rosten

‘The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘I like criticism. It makes you strong.’ – LeBron James

‘Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.’ – Ernest Hemingway

‘Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.’ – Drew Barrymore

‘A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.’ – Vernon Howard

‘Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.’ – Leo Buscaglia

‘It doesn’t take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.’ – J. C. Watts

‘Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.’ – Albert Einstein

‘If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.’ – Audre Lorde

‘The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.’ – Max Lerner

‘Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.’ – Norman Vincent Peale

‘My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.’ – Alfred Lord Tennyson

‘Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘The soul that is within me no man can degrade.’ – Frederick Douglass

‘I think scars are like battle wounds – beautiful, in a way. They show what you’ve been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.’ – Demi Lovato

‘Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.’ – Francis Bacon

‘The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.’ – Swami Vivekananda

‘One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.’ – Albert Schweitzer

‘A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘When adversity strikes, that’s when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.’ – LL Cool J

‘Heroism is endurance for one moment more.’ – George F. Kennan

‘Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Only the gentle are ever really strong.’ – James Dean

‘He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.’ – George Herbert

‘There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.’ – Charles Dickens

‘Perhaps I am stronger than I think.’ – Thomas Merton

‘Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.’ – Charles Stanley

‘Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.’ – William Ellery Channing

‘Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.’ – Liane Cordes

‘Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.’ – Ovid

‘There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.’ – Booker T. Washington

‘Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.’ – Dag Hammarskjold

‘There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.’ – Louis XIV

‘In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.’ – Robert E. Lee

‘Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.’ – Euripides

‘Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.’ – Calvin Coolidge

‘It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.’ – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

‘Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.’ – Henry Rollins

‘This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.’ – Ludwig van Beethoven

‘Every burden is a blessing.’ – Walt Kelly

‘Force has no place where there is need of skill.’ – Herodotus

‘Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.’ – Virgil

‘Nobody picks on a strong man.’ – Charles Atlas

‘Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.’ – Samuel Smiles

‘The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘My bad habits aren’t my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.’ – Layne Staley

‘A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.’ – Marge Piercy

‘Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.’ – John Locke

‘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?’ – Nelson Mandela

‘I’ve been through it all, baby, I’m mother courage.’ – Elizabeth Taylor

‘Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.’ – Lawrence G. Lovasik

‘Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.’ – George Henry Lewes

‘You can’t really be strong until you see a funny side to things.’ – Ken Kesey

‘Nobody can hurt me without my permission.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of the pieces.’ – Judith Viorst

‘Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.’ – Dale Carnegie

‘True strength is delicate.’ – Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

‘The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.’ – John Burroughs

‘This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.’ – Winston Churchill

‘Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.’ – Mignon McLaughlin

‘A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you’re never discouraged.’ – Salma Hayek

‘The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren’t able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It’s called being human.’ – Elizabeth Edwards

‘Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water!’ – Unknown

‘Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.’ – Madame de Stael

‘Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.’ – Harry Emerson Fosdick

‘Don’t wish me happiness – I don’t expect to be happy it’s gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor – I will need them all.’ – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

‘Silence is a source of great strength.’ – Lao Tzu

‘What is to give light must endure burning.’ – Anton Wildgans

‘Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.’ – Amos Bronson Alcott

‘It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.’ – Elbert Hubbard

‘A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.’ – Tecumseh

‘Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.’ – Blanka Vlasic

‘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.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.’ – Vincent Van Gogh

‘Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.’ – Winston Churchill

‘The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.’ – Charles Dickens

‘Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.’ – Anais Nin

‘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.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.’ – Rick Perry

‘I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.’ – Christopher Reeve

‘He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.’ – Lao Tzu

‘Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.’ – Winston Churchill

‘If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.’ – T. D. Jakes

‘Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.’ – Brian Tracy

‘When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.’ – Audre Lorde

‘What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.’ – Barbra Streisand

‘Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.’ – Victor Hugo

‘I think I was born strong-willed. That’s not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.’ – Joan Jett

‘Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.’ – Lao Tzu

‘With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt

‘Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.’ – Mother Teresa

‘In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.’ – Laurence Sterne

‘Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.’ – Corrie Ten Boom

‘That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.’ – William Wordsworth

‘Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.’ – Thomas Paine

‘I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.’ – Harriet Tubman

‘My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.’ – Michael Jordan

‘Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.’ – John Muir

‘Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.’ – Barbara Kingsolver

‘Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.’ – Betty Friedan

‘When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.’ – Tecumseh

‘The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.’ – Confucius

‘I do believe in the old saying, ‘What does not kill you makes you stronger.’ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.’ – Rumi

‘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.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.’ – Dalai Lama

‘Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities.’ – Narendra Modi

‘Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It’s black and white – dramatic. You have to be strong.’ – Catherine Zeta-Jones

‘What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.’ – Rick Warren

‘I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it’s a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough. I say let’s own who we are and use it as a strength.’ – Gal Gadot

‘No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them.’ – Alana Stewart

‘We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.’ – Isabel Allende

‘There will always be obstacles and challenges that stand in your way. Building mental strength will help you develop resilience to those potential hazards so you can continue on your journey to success.’ – Amy Morin

‘Our ability to handle life’s challenges is a measure of our strength of character.’ – Les Brown

‘Everything we want to do in life requires discipline. And like strength, flexibility, and endurance, it can be built up over time.’ – Laird Hamilton

‘Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.’ – Michel Foucault

‘Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.’ – Gregory Peck

‘Solitude is the strength of being alone. It’s where we become our best company.’ – Jay Shetty

‘Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength.’ – James E. Faust

‘Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.’ – Benjamin Britten

‘Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.’ – Ho Chi Minh

‘Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.’ – Mike Murdock

‘Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.’ – Vincent Van Gogh

‘You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.’ – J. R. R. Tolkien

‘Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.’ – Thomas a Kempis

‘God has always given me the strength to say what is right.’ – Rosa Parks

‘We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.’ – Cesar Chavez

‘There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.’ – Mark Shields

‘The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Sometimes the hardest thing we ever must do is ask for help. We want to show everyone that we can do it all, that we have it under control. But the reality is that asking for help is not a sign of weakness – it is the greatest sign of strength.’ – Kendra Scott

‘Having a superpower has nothing to do with the ability to fly or jump, or superhuman strength. The truest superpowers are the ones we all possess: willpower, integrity, and most importantly, courage.’ – Jason Reynolds

‘Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Though it gives you the power to love someone more than yourself, it becomes difficult to live when you lose something you are attached to. Even when we have lost, we should go beyond that and get truly attached to someone. Loving someone truly is the most beautiful feeling.’ – Shahid Kapoor

‘It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.’ – Maya Angelou

‘As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children, I’m going to work for it – even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.’ – Medgar Evers

‘War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.’ – George Orwell

‘Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.’ – Gordon B. Hinckley

‘A good life depends on the strength of our relationships with family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and strangers.’ – David Lammy

‘Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.’ – Louis Pasteur

‘A strong economy is the source of national strength.’ – Yoshihide Suga

‘If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.’ – Hudson Taylor

‘Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.’ – Sara Blakely

‘My family is my strength and my weakness.’ – Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

‘When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.’ – Chinua Achebe

‘Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.’ – Stephen Covey

‘A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘You can’t get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it.’ – Mary J. Blige

‘History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.’ – Haile Selassie

‘Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.’ – Lisa Murkowski

‘Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.’ – Phil Jackson

‘True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.’ – Henry Miller

‘Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.’ – Benjamin Netanyahu

‘Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.’ – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

‘No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.’ – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

‘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.’ – Steve Case

‘I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.’ – Anna Freud

‘Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.’ – George Sand

‘I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.’ – Anais Nin

‘Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.’ – Theodor W. Adorno

‘Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.’ – Arnold Palmer

‘Don’t worry about not fitting in. The things that make people think you’re weird are what makes you you, and therefore your greatest strength.’ – Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

‘Each year, Labor Day gives us an opportunity to recognize the invaluable contributions that working men and women make to our nation, our economy and our collective prosperity. It gives us a chance to show gratitude for workers’ grit, dedication, ingenuity and strength, which define our nation’s character.’ – Tom Perez

‘Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.’ – Charles Caleb Colton

‘You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, ‘I’m proud of what I am and who I am, and I’m just going to be myself.” – Mariah Carey

‘Patience and time do more than strength or passion.’ – Jean de La Fontaine

‘My mother is a strong woman. Her strength comes from being tested by life’s unpredictability. It comes from soldiering on for her children, even when she might rather have given up. I know it hasn’t always come easily, but I also know it’s her greatest gift.’ – Matt Lauer

‘I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.’ – Ossie Davis

‘There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges.’ – John C. Mather

‘I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.’ – Arthur Miller

‘A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it’s a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don’t find it to have anything to do with strength.’ – Matthew Perry

‘Our passion is our strength.’ – Billie Joe Armstrong

‘Early childhood education remains one of the strongest investments we can make in the long-term success of our students and the long-term economic strength of our communities.’ – Abigail Spanberger

‘That’s the beauty of short films; their strength lies in delivering a message creatively and simply.’ – Sanam Saeed

‘Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I’ve starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.’ – Samantha Stosur

‘From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.’ – Jane Goodall

‘Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.’ – John Cheever

‘You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.’ – Francois Rabelais

‘Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.’ – John Ruskin

‘Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.’ – William E. Gladstone

”Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.’ – Thomas Fuller

‘I’m a true believer in the strength of teamwork, in the power of dreams, and in the absolute necessity of a support structure.’ – Julie Payette

‘My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.’ – Peter Drucker

‘The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that – and who won’t leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn’t.’ – Arthur L. Herman

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

‘Old age is not a disease – it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.’ – Maggie Kuhn

‘Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That’s success.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘The beauty of the game is strength, stamina and technique and when you shorten the game, technique goes for a toss and the quality of badminton will surely go down in this system.’ – Jwala Gutta

‘As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.’ – Frederic Chopin

‘We must confront any situation, however difficult it may be, with courage, faith, serenity, confidence and a lot of mental strength.’ – Seve Ballesteros

‘Over the years, golf has evolved from a leisurely game of stick and ball into a competitive sport for highly skilled athletes. Players not only spend countless hours fine-tuning technique on the course, but also improving strength, stability, and endurance in the gym.’ – Paige Spiranac

‘Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘I wish I’d known that apologizing is a sign of strength. I had the impression that if you apologize, it’s a sign of weakness. I kind of picked up the message from my father, ‘Real men don’t apologize. You just do your best, and if you happen to hurt some people, that’s their fault. You just go on. Don’t apologize. That’s a sign of weakness.” – Gary Chapman

‘Part of the problem with America is that letting go of emotions is viewed as a weakness, but it’s my strength. That enabled me to write my songs.’ – Melanie Martinez

‘Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.’ – Jack Welch

‘I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.’ – Elizabeth Kenny

‘We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.’ – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

‘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.’ – Abraham Joshua Heschel

‘The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.’ – Benjamin Banneker

‘The strength of the scientific establishment in any country is related to its general level of education, not only in supplying large numbers of eager minds for further training, but also in ensuring a public opinion that holds science in esteem and approves financial support.’ – Arthur Lewis

‘Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.’ – Paul Brunton

‘My strength would be my honesty and my passion towards my work.’ – Sushant Singh Rajput

‘The fact that societies are becoming increasingly multi-ethnic, multicultural, and multi-religious is good. Diversity is a strength, not a weakness.’ – Antonio Guterres

‘Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.’ – Mary Wollstonecraft

‘Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.’ – Charles Kingsley

‘Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.’ – Jean-Bertrand Aristide

‘I’m a big believer in a balance of workouts – a well-balanced workout plan. Part of it is cardio, part strength training and then flexibility. You really need all three.’ – Denise Austin

‘We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘The future belongs to us, because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment, we have the resourcefulness, and we have the strength of our people to share the dream across Africa of clean water for all.’ – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

‘The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you’ve got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don’t give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.’ – Jack Ma

‘I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.’ – Carry Nation

‘I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois

‘Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.’ – Billy Graham

‘I realized that my strength was being different.’ – Betsey Johnson

‘Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.’ – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

‘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.’ – Leon Trotsky

‘My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.’ – Carly Fiorina

‘The power of Haitian heritage and the strength of the Haitian people is tremendous. And Haiti holds a unique and rich role in the history of African Americans.’ – Cheryl Mills

‘There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.’ – Lewis Carroll

‘We get strength and encouragement from watching children.’ – Hayao Miyazaki

‘It takes strength to be kind; it’s not a weakness.’ – Daniel Lubetzky

‘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.’ – Carl von Clausewitz

‘We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.’ – Rudolf Steiner

‘He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.’ – Cesare Pavese

‘My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.’ – Dwayne Johnson

‘I am deeply honored by the trust the board has placed in me to lead Duke Energy. I have a high degree of confidence in the strength of our company’s leadership and dedicated employees.’ – Lynn Good

‘I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.’ – Ani DiFranco

‘Muscles are fleeting. Bodies give out. But integrity, honor? The confidence to be oneself, to follow one’s heart? The compassionate drive to help others, even at great risk? That’s strength.’ – Marjorie Liu

‘So many people in the world would rather stay in a situation that’s painful but familiar because they’re comfortable with it. Not a lot of people have the strength or heart to realize when something’s not good for them and to turn around and be alone.’ – Corey Taylor

‘The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.’ – Paul Cezanne

‘We can’t all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered.’ – Simon Sinek

‘If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.’ – Ernest Shackleton

”Star Trek’ is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms.’ – George Takei

‘You must all be aware that modern war is not a mere matter of military operations. It involves the whole strength and all the resources of the nation. Not only soldiers, but also all citizens without exception, take part.’ – Chiang Kai-shek

‘London’s greatest strength is our diversity, and it’s wonderful to see Londoners celebrating our capital’s different traditions, determined to stand up to division.’ – Sadiq Khan

‘Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.’ – William Gurnall

‘Willpower, strength and determination, it will take you places.’ – Julianna Pena

‘Togetherness is our strength.’ – Skip Marley

‘Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball I’m definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out.’ – Steven Yeun

‘There is great strength in vulnerability, as it takes courage to push through the fear and share one’s true self with others. In music, that vulnerability really speaks to listeners as it connects with their own hearts.’ – Anoushka Shankar

‘I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn’t my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.’ – David Gilmour

‘There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.’ – Pat Riley

‘I’m God’s chosen child. I don’t worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I’ve always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you.’ – Rohit Shetty

‘I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘Yoga is equal parts strength, flexibility, balance, and endurance.’ – Mandy Ingber

‘The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city’s biggest strength, and it is Toronto’s unique strength.’ – Anthony Bourdain

‘Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.’ – Lao Tzu

‘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.’ – Wilhelm Keitel

‘It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ.’ – Ellen G. White

‘I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.’ – Queen Elizabeth II

‘The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.’ – Malala Yousafzai

‘People do not lack strength; they lack will.’ – Victor Hugo

‘I believe in blood, soil, and honour; family, homeland, and hamingja; strength, traditions, and courage.’ – Varg Vikernes

‘We must keep both our femininity and our strength.’ – Indra Devi

‘The serenity prayer, ‘God grant me the strength to accept…’ That’s a prayer that’s actually in my car. I say it every day.’ – Lauren London

‘Physical strength in a woman – that’s what I am.’ – Tina Turner

‘God’s grace is amazing! We’re saved by grace – God’s undeserved favor – and we live by grace, which is also God’s power in our lives to do what we could never do in our own strength. And it’s all because God is love, and He loves us unconditionally, constantly and completely.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.’ – George W. Bush

‘The infinite variety in the properties of the solid materials we find in the world is really the expression of the infinite variety of the ways in which the atoms and molecules can be tied together, and of the strength of those ties.’ – William Henry Bragg

‘If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.’ – Lawrence Welk

‘Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.’ – Lou Holtz

‘What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.’ – Winona LaDuke

‘I have all points of strength, and I have the opportunities to increase our non-oil revenues in many sectors, and I have a global economic network.’ – Mohammad bin Salman

‘I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction.’ – Nick Lampson

‘My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall – that is my strength, my only strength.’ – Antonio Gramsci

‘The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.’ – Richard L. Evans

‘The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as an eagle. I witnessed, close up, effortlessness and lightness combined with strength, precision and determination.’ – Norman Foster

‘America’s greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.’ – John McCain

‘When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn’t have this foundation.’ – Radhanath Swami

‘It’s so easy to be there when it’s all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.’ – Bindi Irwin

‘The woman is a gentle, loving bond who encourages, consoles, builds, reconciles, and makes all things new and vibrant. The woman is strength in time of suffering, courageous in failure, intuitive in time of danger. A woman is ingenuous when all fails, resourceful in times of want, and a true helpmate for man.’ – Mother Angelica

‘I believe in prayer. It’s the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.’ – Josephine Baker

‘I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.’ – Julio Iglesias

‘God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.’ – Richard Holloway

‘I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.’ – Evita Peron

‘If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.’ – Hal Borland

‘A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.’ – Marcel Proust

‘Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was competing with other schools. I did everything: running, volleyball, basketball, soccer, Olympic-style gymnastics, and more! My history with sports gave me good concentration, focus, strength, and motivation to stay healthy.’ – Izabel Goulart

‘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.” – Jimmy Carter

‘You’re blessed if you have the strength to work.’ – Mahalia Jackson

‘My greatest strength is common sense. I’m really a standard brand – like Campbell’s tomato soup or Baker’s chocolate.’ – Katharine Hepburn

‘What gives me strength and inspires me is never to go back to where I once was. My inspiration is to see my son as he admires me and knowing that I have someone there who depends on me. I have to do things right. I have to move forward.’ – Anuel AA

‘Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

‘Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.’ – Andrei Sakharov

‘The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.’ – Gene Roddenberry

‘I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.’ – Cristiano Ronaldo

‘The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o’er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.’ – Robert Browning

‘I don’t have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.’ – Tony Dungy

‘Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people’s business.’ – Jesse Ventura

‘Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.’ – Philip Sidney

‘Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.’ – Sigmund Freud

‘The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity.’ – Ruby Dee

‘I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.’ – Novak Djokovic

‘Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness – a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster – children into strength and athletic proportion.’ – William Cullen Bryant

‘Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.’ – Aldous Huxley

‘Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.’ – Joseph Conrad

‘The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.’ – Lech Walesa

‘My strength is also my endurance. I can bear anything and everything.’ – Urfi Javed

‘Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.’ – John W. Gardner

‘In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.’ – James Allen

‘I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.’ – Huey Newton

‘Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders’ spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.’ – Frank Lloyd Wright

‘People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I’m very proud to have Latin blood.’ – Zoe Saldana

‘Every actor has a strength, and sometimes you just respond to things that you see yourself better at. I’m aware of what I can and can’t do.’ – Jason Statham

‘I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals – and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me.’ – Paul Watson

‘I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.’ – Alexis Arguello

‘Disappointment builds character and strength.’ – Nafessa Williams

‘It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.’ – Lillian Hellman

‘Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.’ – David Hare

‘The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.’ – Tiny Tim

‘Strengths are not activities you’re good at, they’re activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you’re doing it you look forward to doing it; while you’re doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you’ve done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours.’ – Marcus Buckingham

‘I shall try and effect all that is before me to perform; and God, I think, will surely give me strength for His work so long as He directs my line of duty.’ – Dorothea Dix

‘The true measure of strength is through a squat and deadlift.’ – Mark Henry

‘My biggest strength is my versatility.’ – John Collins

‘Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.’ – Dorothy Day

‘The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.’ – Chloe Sevigny

‘I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.’ – Sextus Propertius

‘The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.’ – Robert Shea

‘Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.’ – Billy Corgan

‘When you’re playing upside down, it takes twice the strength.’ – Tommy Lee

‘To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.’ – L. Lionel Kendrick

‘The core of my life is Islam, my religion. Without that, I have no strength, no belief in God or in myself.’ – Naseem Hamed

‘The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.’ – Rudy Giuliani

‘I got a strength coach. My wife. She gets big chains, and at night she puts them around the refrigerator. They are so strong, I can’t break them.’ – George Foreman

‘To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.’ – Zsa Zsa Gabor

‘Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day.’ – Thalia

‘Working on problems and self-examination is a sign of strength.’ – Dana Reeve

‘Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.’ – Sophia Loren

‘African women in general need to know that it’s OK for them to be the way they are – to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.’ – Wangari Maathai

‘Your greatest strength can be your greatest weakness.’ – Michael Clarke

‘A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.’ – Ruby Bridges

‘Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.’ – Meir Kahane

‘Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘We believe with all the strength of our spirit that mankind has a supreme, primary and irreplaceable need which can be satisfied only through Jesus Christ, the first-born among men, the head of the new humanity, in whom each individual reaches full self-realization.’ – Pope Paul VI

‘Believing in yourself and having confidence gives you outer strength.’ – Nikki Bella

‘My mentality is my biggest strength.’ – Jalen Brunson

‘The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that’s unstoppable. You can’t get through it, you know.’ – Alicia Keys

‘You must rouse into people’s consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.’ – Luc de Clapiers

‘Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn’t let them do it.’ – Ben Carson

‘I am closest to my mother, as she is my rock, my pillar of strength, and my world. Not only has she stood by me through all times – happy, sad, and otherwise – but there have even been moments when I had completely lost hope, and her immense belief in me had lifted me up.’ – Amruta Khanvilkar

‘I am not someone like A. B. de Villiers, Gayle, or Dhoni. I don’t have that much power. I have to use my brain to manipulate the field and stick to my strength, which is to hit through the lines.’ – Rohit Sharma

‘Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.’ – Felicia Hemans

‘I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.’ – Miriam Makeba

‘The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.’ – James Cash Penney

‘Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.’ – Russell Brand

‘I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.’ – Thomas Paine

‘Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength.’ – Charles Lamb

‘My fitness instructor helped me with strength training, muscle building, and toning.’ – Karan Patel

‘There’s probably a tendency to view power… to be either based on size or the size and power of your economy. I think New Zealand’s strength has always been using our voice on the issues that matter, and we’ve been consistent on it. There is power in that.’ – Jacinda Ardern

‘Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the First Commandment: Do not have any gods before me.’ – John Piper

‘God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.’ – Patti Davis

‘Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.’ – Saint Bernard

‘Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.’ – Steven Cojocaru

‘When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.’ – Audre Lorde

‘My stamina was my strength.’ – Cafu

‘Victoria’s Secret is really about celebrating women and what they stand for: the strength.’ – Cara Delevingne

‘As a boss, as a CEO, as a creative director, as a chef, I’ve learned that failure will always come. I’ve learned to give it a big squeeze, smile at it, humble myself to it and then use it as a springboard to send me on my way to strength, success, and fulfillment.’ – Christina Tosi

‘On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.’ – Yi So-Yeon

‘The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes.’ – Mark McGwire

‘He’s an innocent in a lot of ways. He’s a very simple person who really doesn’t have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.’ – Jared Leto

‘Something called ‘the Oklahoma Standard’ became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.’ – Brad Henry

‘Money doesn’t mind if we say it’s evil, it goes from strength to strength. It’s a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.’ – Martin Amis

‘I couldn’t beat people with my strength; I don’t have a hard shot; I’m not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.’ – Wayne Gretzky

‘I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!’ – Betty White

‘The type of cuisine I do, especially after being on ‘Iron Chef’ for several years, is a lot of global cuisine. My strength has always been Mediterranean cuisine across the board from Morocco, Spain, Italy, Greece, France, but I think now I’m doing a lot of very different cuisines all the time.’ – Cat Cora

‘We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.’ – Ninon de L’Enclos

‘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.’ – Anna Quindlen

‘It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.’ – Giacomo Casanova

‘Proof of the ‘hysterical strength’ phenomenon is still hearsay, mostly because it’s impossible to recreate those conditions in a lab. That said, try turning a doorknob when the bass drops on ‘Skyfall’ without ripping that door clean off of its hinges.’ – Sean Evans

‘I see myself as a survivor, and I’m not ashamed to say I’m a survivor. To me, survivor implies strength, implies that I have been through something and I made it out the other side.’ – Elizabeth Smart

‘When people are depending on us, we end up finding strength we didn’t know we had.’ – Adam Grant

‘Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.’ – Theodore C. Sorensen

‘I have always drawn strength from being close to home.’ – Arthur Ashe

‘Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.’ – Michelle Obama

‘The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America leads, only strength ensures peace and freedom, and America must stand with its allies and challenge its adversaries.’ – Kevin McCarthy

‘Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.’ – Baruch Spinoza

‘God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.’ – Walter Annenberg

‘Strength comes in so many forms. Not just the physical strength, but to understand the emotional strength. To have emotional vulnerability, to show that’s not a weakness.’ – Cory Barlog

‘Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I’m drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.’ – Beyonce Knowles

‘For the off-ice training, I do basic strength training, and for the on-ice training, I practice jumps, spins, steps, and my new long program with my new coach Peter Oppegard.’ – Kim Yuna

‘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.’ – John Stuart Mill

‘The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.’ – Franz Kafka

‘I bring a lot of energy and passion to what I do. Plus, I’ve had some weird feats of superhuman strength!’ – John Cena

‘It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.’ – Pearl S. Buck

‘Vampires are so old that they don’t need to impress anyone anymore. They’re comfortable in their own skin. It’s this enigmatic strength that’s very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who’s going to look after his woman.’ – Stephen Moyer

‘The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.’ – John Marshall

‘Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God’s ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.’ – Ellen G. White

‘Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.’ – Christina Baker Kline

‘It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.’ – Stephen Covey

‘Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.’ – Marquis de Sade

‘When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.’ – Comte de Lautreamont

‘The still image continues to have a ton of strength. An image taken out of context from one fraction of a second to the next can tell a story, and if photographers are looking to tell a certain story, they can curate those slices of time to their advantage.’ – Jill Greenberg

‘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.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘In the midst of the heartbreak and wreckage of 9-11, the world also witnessed what is America’s greatest strength. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, first responders and local residents worked around the clock to rescue and care for those injured.’ – Dan Coats

‘It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.’ – Russell Means

‘Self-belief, I think, is my biggest strength. The mental toughness comes into play whenever the chips are down.’ – Jasprit Bumrah

‘Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.’ – William Shenstone

‘Whenever I see John Lewis, I invariably say, ‘Thank you.’ And I will never stop. I don’t know how he’s still standing, because what he endured took courage and strength that I don’t know that I have.’ – Don Lemon

‘Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.’ – Bill Owens

‘Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.’ – Ovid

‘People judge you really quickly, at first just on your facial features. There are two dimensions – warmth and competence. You can think of them as trustworthiness and strength. They’re first judging you on warmth; evaluating whether or not you are trustworthy. That’s much more important to them than whether or not you’re competent.’ – Amy Cuddy

‘I’m in love with red. I think it’s such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. It’s power, there’s no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don’t. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. They’re all magic.’ – Bryan Batt

‘I have a condition called Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), which has affected my growth and bone strength. In short, people with the kind of OI I have generally experience hundreds of fractures in their lifetime and use wheelchairs for mobility.’ – Stella Young

‘A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.’ – Indira Gandhi

‘There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.’ – Barack Obama

‘Being a caregiver requires infinite patience, physical and emotional strength, health care navigation skills, and a sense of humor – which can be hard to come by after sleepless nights and demanding days.’ – Rosalynn Carter

‘People should be respected for the strength of their convictions, and I also believe in freedom of expression.’ – Joe Lhota

‘If the label presents them with a contract that the band don’t want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength.’ – Steve Albini

‘It’s not all about strength, there is so much more involved, getting the horse into a rhythm, getting the horse to try for you, it’s being patient and I’m so glad to win Melbourne Cup and hopefully, it will help female jockeys from now on to get more of a go.’ – Michelle Payne

‘Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country’s standard of living.’ – Peter Blair Henry

‘So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don’t get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.’ – Jack LaLanne

‘Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.’ – Jean Paul

‘To show weakness, we’re told in sports, is to deserve shame. But showing weakness, addressing your mental health, is strength.’ – Mardy Fish

‘We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.’ – David Brainerd

‘When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.’ – Patricia Neal

‘Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: ‘This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.” – Prince William

‘Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.’ – Max Stirner

‘I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.’ – Elvis Stojko

‘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.’ – Li Ka-shing

‘Often times we don’t have answers. We put it in the ‘I don’t understand’ file so you are not subject to questioning God too much. Because God is good anyway. You just gotta keep it moving and pray for strength and courage to go forward.’ – Rev. Run

‘Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.’ – John Bradshaw

‘I’m very weak in a sense. I’m very tiny and I am very emotional, and that is not something people usually associate with strength.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.’ – William Shakespeare

‘We don’t need flashy cars, impressive titles, uniforms, or other status symbols. We rely on our strength and our will!’ – Ingvar Kamprad

‘If I do have a strength, it probably is adaptability.’ – Monty Williams

‘Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I’d come to take for granted.’ – David Harewood

‘Strength is one of those things you’re supposed to have. You don’t feel that you have it at the time you’re going through it.’ – Joan Didion

‘I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.’ – Pedro Almodovar

‘Being a boss takes guts and tenacity. Being a boss takes hustle and strength. Getting to the level of boss takes hard work – often times, harder than our male counterpoint because in many industries, we’re fighting our way into a boys’ club.’ – Rachel Hollis

‘Grudge no expense – yield to no opposition – forget fatigue – till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .’ – Maria Weston Chapman

‘Together we can build the Michigan we believe in, because we still have what we need most – the strength, the talent, the vision and the grit of the incredible people of this state.’ – Gretchen Whitmer

‘Many people say that my positive energy lights up the room, but I think it’s the people around me who give me strength.’ – Lee Hye-ri

‘You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.’ – Star Jones

‘The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I’m particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.’ – Bernard Ebbers

‘The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology.’ – Kim Jong-un

‘It’s never too late to reclaim your inner diva and reclaim your inner strength.’ – Michelle Visage

‘Indian democracy’s greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics.’ – Atal Bihari Vajpayee

‘When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘I believe that my greatest strength is a deep-rooted, unshakeable trust to never let myself give up.’ – Alexander Dreymon

‘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.’ – Jaime King

‘It is an honor and a privilege to be of service and support; however, I realize people are not putting their confidence in me. Instead, they are actually learning to trust themselves. My job is to affirm and support them in the process and teach them to do what I do when I need strength: I begin within.’ – Iyanla Vanzant

‘As a color, red represents so many things – power, sensuality, vulnerability, and strength.’ – Ariana DeBose

‘Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.’ – Herman Melville

‘If I’m walking down the street, and if a person abuses me, the dignified thing to do is to keep walking, but if that person starts throwing stones into my home and affects the well-being of me and my family, then that silence is no longer strength; that silence becomes weakness.’ – Hrithik Roshan

‘But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.’ – Robert Peel

‘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.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

‘Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.’ – Mother Teresa

‘Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.’ – Alexis Carrel

‘In the strength of the Lord we can do and endure and overcome all things.’ – David A. Bednar

‘There’s a strength and weakness to every play.’ – Matt LaFleur

‘The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘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.” – Mitch Daniels

‘Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?’ – Russell M. Nelson

‘The world assumes that we are very happy with high mansions, fine carriages, servants and attendants, huge investments, and concubines. But he who is without the honor and strength of the soul can be anything but happy.’ – Munshi Premchand

‘The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.’ – William Blackstone

‘To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.’ – William Hazlitt

‘I’m a strong believer in God. Always have been. I’ve always believed that he directed my path from the time I was a kid. He has always been my source of strength.’ – Philip Bailey

‘He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.’ – William Samuel Johnson

‘This inner strength we have, this desire to evolve and expand and explore, I do love that about humanity. At the same time, it’s scary what it does on a global scale. I’m very much caught between the two.’ – Matt Bellamy

‘I think there’s strength in being honest and open about yourself and your struggles. But it can also be a challenge. This is my life, I live with my own mental health, and that is happening to me every day. I can talk about it from a position of ‘Oh, I’ve done this’ but I’m still living that existence.’ – Olly Alexander

‘In 1805, the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, making their way across the West, were warned by American Indian tribes of grizzly bears’ awesome strength.’ – Lydia Millet

‘There is power in unity. There is power in strength.’ – Bradley Beal

‘Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.’ – Helen Keller

‘Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘I think there’s a great strength in having the courage and also having the support to do what you want to do when you’re an artist in any way, shape or form.’ – Dave Gahan

‘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.’ – Michael Korda

‘My biggest flaw is probably my attention span or lack thereof. And while it might seem contradictory, my biggest strength is my work ethic.’ – Tom Holland

‘The reserve strength is very important in assessing a team’s ability.’ – Brian Lara

‘I tell my daughter every morning, ‘Now, what are the two most important parts of you?’ And she says, ‘My head and my heart.’ Because that’s what I’ve learned in the foxhole: What gets you through life is strength of character and strength of spirit and love.’ – Viola Davis

‘It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.’ – Aime Cesaire

‘The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.’ – Thorstein Veblen

‘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.’ – Barbra Streisand

‘The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.’ – John Muir

‘It’s being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power – if you’re willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.’ – Whoopi Goldberg

‘Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.’ – Charles Lindbergh

‘When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our strength. The real strength of our nation comes from our people – not our buildings.’ – Michael Enzi

‘It’s really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.’ – Carson Kressley

‘I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn’t occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.’ – Thor Heyerdahl

‘When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.’ – Dalai Lama

‘The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.’ – Garrett Fort

‘Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.’ – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

‘Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.’ – Ralph Cudworth

‘I want to show everyone in this world that the soul is the source of our happiness, strength and health. Love actually comes from the soul, from the light.’ – Wim Hof

‘God will give us the strength to be able to handle things. I mean, you can try to do it on your own, and sometimes you can pull off some stuff, but in the long run, it’s much easier with Him by our side.’ – Bethany Hamilton

‘Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.’ – Felix Frankfurter

‘As long as I’ve got my life, health and strength, and I’m in my right mind? I’mma get money.’ – E-40

‘Women should realise their strength and set goals.’ – Sudha Murty

‘Endurance, after all, is the only reason we even exist. We think of ourselves as nature’s deadliest animals, but the truth is, a naked human is the biggest wimp in the wild. We have no fangs, no claws, no strength, and no speed.’ – Christopher McDougall

‘When you surround yourself with like-minded athletes who are all going through the same thing as you, it gives you more drive and strength to get through those moments when you don’t want to do it any more, when you think it’s hard.’ – Jessica Fox

‘It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.’ – John Eldredge

‘My strength is my enthusiasm.’ – Placido Domingo

”Swan Lake’ is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.’ – Benjamin Millepied

‘It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.’ – Walter Scott

‘We are not a fearful, small people. We are confident and strong, and we understand that much of our strength comes from the fact that we are a people of the planet.’ – Beto O’Rourke

‘I think that we should remember that social change can happen when people join together with some strength.’ – Haskell Wexler

‘Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That’s what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find that strength?’ – Meryl Streep

‘It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs.’ – Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

‘As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.’ – Emmet Fox

‘I think my biggest strength is that I always keep doing exactly the same thing. There are forwards who go crazy with euphoria, but after a goal, I let myself fall back to the midfield, recharge. Keeping yourself cool and concentrated on your mission.’ – Robin Van Persie

‘When it came to my childhood – growing up in a single-parent home, often struggling financially – my mother definitely instilled in me and my siblings this strength, this will, to just continue to survive and succeed.’ – Misty Copeland

‘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.’ – Theodore Bikel

‘God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.’ – Saint Ambrose

‘I used to play rugby, which requires a lot of physical strength. The game requires you to get aggressive.’ – Sidharth Malhotra

‘Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don’t know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I’ll get it.’ – Janis Joplin

‘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.’ – Michael Vick

‘Do what you love at all costs and maintain your faith in God. Nothing we have is of our own strength so as long as we remember where we came from, it will inform us where we are going.’ – Ser’Darius Blain

‘Kindness is more than a virtue. It is a source of strength.’ – Vivek Murthy

‘It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.’ – Kate Middleton

‘Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.’ – Cesare Pavese

‘To me, the biggest attraction is a woman’s charisma, her soul, her inner strength.’ – Fabio Lanzoni

‘The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.’ – Audre Lorde

‘There’s a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.’ – Arthur Scargill

‘I’ll fight with all my strength for change in this country.’ – Sebastian Kurz

‘Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God’s laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy.’ – James E. Faust

‘I think naturally, if you’re an actor, there’s a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There’s boldness in being assertive, and there’s strength and confidence.’ – Bryan Cranston

‘I’m lucky that my best strength as a wrestler has always been my brain.’ – Kenny Omega

‘My strength is my humility. When you are humble, people like you.’ – Mohammad Azharuddin

‘Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.’ – William Cavendish

‘From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.’ – Cesar Chavez

‘I don’t believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn’t give strength; it just gives loneliness.’ – Carla Bruni

‘May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.’ – Swami Vivekananda

‘The ground game is a very good strength to have.’ – Mackenzie Dern

‘One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.’ – Henry Drummond

‘One thing I learned about Gordon Brown is you’ve got to have the strength to just get in there and take him on. When you first hear him spouting his statistics and boasting about his record, it can be quite intimidating. But over time, shadowing him, I just realised that a lot of it was rubbish; a lot of it was baloney.’ – George Osborne

‘They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.’ – Diana Ross

‘The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.’ – Zygmunt Bauman

‘It took more strength and hard work than I would’ve believed myself capable of, but with God’s grace and strength, I managed to lift myself up and become a better person that I’d ever imagined – I believe I have become a loving husband, a compassionate father, and a stronger wrestler.’ – Eddie Guerrero

‘He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista’s tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.’ – Fidel Castro

‘The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.’ – Adam Savage

‘Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don’t know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they’re not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.’ – Joe Lieberman

‘Muhammad Ali was such an original – his antics, his character, his charisma, his strength, his individuality.’ – Jon Jones

‘And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.’ – George Eliot

‘We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward – to be bold – to invest in our future.’ – John Hoeven

‘Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.’ – Rachel Maddow

‘Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don’t be intimidated. Read your Bible. That’s really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God’s name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.’ – Margaret Keane

‘I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.’ – Narendra Modi

‘Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.’ – William Moulton Marston

‘The basis for all human relationships and where we derive our greatest strength and power, trust is single-handedly the most powerful source of positive energy and, once in place, unlocks a freedom and peace to explore.’ – Angela Ahrendts

‘Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.’ – Lal Bahadur Shastri

‘If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: ‘strength.” – Lorde

‘Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.’ – Montesquieu

‘My strength is looking for composition and light, and I think those things come in the quieter times of war or photographing people affected on the margins of war – civilians, refugees; that is where I really excel.’ – Lynsey Addario

‘Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.’ – Georg Brandes

‘Mental strength requires a three-pronged approach – managing our thoughts, regulating our emotions, and behaving productively despite our circumstances. While all three areas can be a struggle, it’s often our thoughts that make it most difficult to be mentally strong.’ – Amy Morin

‘I take two Forza T5 Super Strength in the morning just before my work-out. This gives me the energy I need and sometimes I take another one at around 3 P. M. if I’m feeling like snacking and this kills off any cravings.’ – Spencer Matthews

‘The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital… the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘We all need Europe, not just those of us in Europe. And we Germans need Europe more than the others. Germany is the country with the longest border, the most neighbours, and is, by population and economic strength, the number one in Europe.’ – Helmut Kohl

‘Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.’ – Ann Richards

‘When you have a fresh point of view that comes from the right side of the heart, it’s just so valuable. You can take it or not take it, but just that perspective can give you a lot of strength or make you reflect on a lot of things.’ – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

‘Later in life, when my kids struggle to understand a tricky concept or master a new skill, I want them to have the strength and experience to tell themselves, ‘I don’t know how to do this… yet!’ I want them to be confident that, even if something seems challenging today, they have what it takes to figure it out.’ – Sal Khan

‘The scars in my face are the source of my strength.’ – Franck Ribery

‘It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.’ – Moshe Dayan

‘I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.’ – Jim Brown

‘Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.’ – Hassanal Bolkiah

‘Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency. President Obama’s strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it isn’t the easy thing.’ – Harry Reid

‘The ‘Bird’s Nest’ National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of ‘fair competition.’ It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.’ – Ai Weiwei

‘The goal of any true resistance is to affect outcomes, not just to vent. And the only way to affect outcomes and thrive in our lives is to find the eye in the hurricane and act from that place of inner strength.’ – Arianna Huffington

‘Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift – the gift of life – and it’s amazing that I live each day.’ – Mattie Stepanek

‘I’ve never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I’ve found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.’ – Brooke Shields

‘The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.’ – Ellen G. White

‘We had to forge an alliance of strength based not on colour but on commitment to the total abolition of apartheid and oppression; we would seek allies, of whatever colour, as long as they were totally agreed on our liberation aims.’ – Oliver Tambo

‘He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.’ – Ben Jonson

‘In my opinion, the motion picture is the greatest medium of expression ever invented. It embraces all the other arts. The films that have the greatest unity, the greatest overall strength, and give the most satisfaction to the viewer, have been those in which a guiding hand was imposed in every section of the film’s many divisions.’ – King Vidor

‘When you talk about peace through strength, what you’re talking about is the concept of deterrence.’ – Chris Gibson

‘The manager is always on at us about mental strength anyway. He just comes in and stresses how important it is to be strong mentally, to succeed you’ve got to go through pain both mentally and physically.’ – Kalvin Phillips

‘Music makes us want to live. You don’t know how many times people have told me that they’d been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That’s the power music has.’ – Mary J. Blige

‘Growing up, when I was younger, I didn’t feel all that tough or smart or strong. As I got older, I was able to discover my own strength.’ – Alexandra Daddario

‘None of us live single-issue lives… That is why intersectionality is a strength, not a weakness.’ – Linda Sarsour

‘Obedience is a strong virtue, capable of making me master of my emotions by giving me more strength to conquer my pride as I submit to those above me out of respect for their God-given authority and those below me out of love.’ – Mother Angelica

‘When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.’ – Sam Raimi

‘Strength is leading when you just don’t want to lead.’ – Stanley A. McChrystal

‘My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.’ – Queen Elizabeth II

‘Startup India is welcome for the economy, but it cannot be accompanied by ‘Shut Up India’ in society. What gives Startup India its strength is freedom of expression, thought, and dissent. You choke this, and you choke entrepreneurship.’ – Rahul Gandhi

‘Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.’ – Allen Klein

‘The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.’ – John Ruskin

‘When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.’ – Georgette Mosbacher

‘Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.’ – Germaine Greer

‘Jimmy Fallon’s strengths are that he’s fun, and he’s good at impressions, and he’s musically inclined. And my strength is that I’m a joke writer, but I also have no filter, and I think that that’s not a talent per se, but it’s just a thing about myself that I have found that people like about what I do.’ – Nikki Glaser

‘I think the inner strength that I have helps me stay calm.’ – Vijay Shankar

‘We acquire the strength we have overcome.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.’ – Michelle Obama

‘In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.’ – Cory Booker

‘The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.’ – Thomas Paine

‘This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work – they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.’ – Frederick Law Olmsted

‘Mrs. Thatcher was a powerful figure at the time I was a student in London. And I admire her versatility and strength.’ – Tsai Ing-wen

‘If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.’ – Charles Spurgeon

”Charm’ – which means the power to effect work without employing brute force – is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman’s strength just as strength is a man’s charm.’ – Havelock Ellis

‘I’m a true believer in the strength of teamwork, in the power of dreams.’ – Julie Payette

‘I think it is a sign of strength when you admit you are wrong, weak or failing.’ – Amit Sadh

‘Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we’re damned if we’re going to show.’ – Mignon McLaughlin

‘I would say darts is probably 15 per cent throwing. The rest of it is mental strength. Being able to hold your nerve.’ – Rob Cross

‘It’s a marathon, not a sprint. I actually feel like I come to work stronger when I’ve had a little time on the weekend to step away from it and enjoy my family and other things. I come back energized. If people think they’re going to work 24/7, week in and week out, they’re not bringing their full strength to the table.’ – Mary Barra

‘A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.’ – Elizabeth I

‘The far right was on the march in the 1930s, and we defeated the fascists through a great united working-class effort. That sense of unity and strength is what gave people confidence to change things.’ – Ken Loach

‘I’ve never been one to be too careful with my diet. If I really start watching what I eat, I’m already a thin guy – I just won’t have any physical strength. I think I’ll disappear if I don’t eat what I need to eat or what I like to eat.’ – Daniel Nestor

‘I grew up in Nacogdoches, Texas… raised by my grandmother. We were very poor and had no indoor plumbing. My grandmother was a very religious woman, though, and she gave me a lot of faith and inner strength.’ – Alana Stewart

‘When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home’s potential for positive influence.’ – Stephen Covey

‘I give myself strength by staying away from any music.’ – Alannah Myles

‘Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.’ – Oliver Goldsmith

‘I learned that there is an inner strength that blossoms when one cleanses themselves by processing and attempting to comprehend their situation and/or experience. Writing became my therapy!’ – Dominique Jackson

‘Mental toughness is my strongest trait and then I would say my physical strength would be number two on the list of strengths.’ – Matt Hughes

‘We have to be able to show Canadians that our strength on the economy doesn’t mean we ignore all other issues.’ – Erin O’Toole

‘For offensive line play, it all starts from the ground up. Being able to use your strength in your legs, your hips, it all kind of originates there. I mean, everybody takes a look at biceps and shoulders and how big your chest is and whatnot, and that’s all important. But really, everything originates from the lower half.’ – Jason Kelce

‘Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink – such is the bravery of the dog and boar.’ – Xun Kuang

‘I found strength in what hurt me. And in my family – that’s my strength as well. I’m truly grateful to be hurt as many times as I have, because I’m happy!’ – Selena Gomez

‘Inner strength is very important.’ – Geeta Phogat

‘My life will not be defined by a single political campaign. Those will come and go. But what has driven me to run for elected office in the past still drives me today: the knowledge that heroes do walk among us with tremendous strength and power.’ – Darryl Glenn

‘The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘My mental strength was definitely a weakness back in the karting days, and I’ve worked hard on that to be as ready as possible for whenever I had the chance in F1.’ – Charles Leclerc

‘I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.’ – Vita Sackville-West

‘On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.’ – Patrick J. Kennedy

‘The people I see be the most successful are the people who have an inner confidence and an inner strength that comes from the character they display away from the stage and from what their parents taught them.’ – Annaleigh Ashford

‘I never said I wanted a ‘happy’ life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.’ – Isabel Allende

‘Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.’ – A. N. Wilson

‘I pretty much eat all day to keep my strength up. I’m primarily a vegetarian who has an occasional side of fish.’ – Jaimie Alexander

‘An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community – as SNCC does – must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.’ – Stokely Carmichael

‘What I really appreciated about Obama in the last campaign was that he was not reactive, and we’re such a reactive culture… It takes a certain strength to be patient and have a plan.’ – Greg Berlanti

‘I count life just a stuff to try the soul’s strength on.’ – Robert Browning

‘Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man’s character is strong; no nation’s life can be lasting.’ – Orson F. Whitney

‘Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.’ – Robert Greene

‘My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I’ve learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn’t need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.’ – Bear Grylls

‘I so wish my dad was alive to see me do a Hindi film after acting in six Telugu movies. I sometimes imagine him giving me feedback on my work. But I derive strength from knowing he is watching over me.’ – Harshvardhan Rane

‘In everyday life, I like APC, Isabel Marant, but I also like Zara. It depends how I’m feeling on the day. I like clothes that have a certain strength to them – simple but graphic.’ – Felicity Jones

‘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.’ – Pearl S. Buck

‘I have always drawn strength from my late mother’s life. When Eunice Johnson set up the first major fashion show for African-American audiences more than 50 years ago, she did so at a time when black Americans, especially black women, were still fighting for a seat at the table – any table.’ – Linda Johnson Rice

‘A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players’ performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.’ – Gary Neville

‘I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.’ – Black Elk

‘For many years, I tried to make New Year’s resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.’ – Henry Rollins

‘America is a melting pot. Our diversity is our strength.’ – Ralph Northam

‘When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed – that’s the finest I know.’ – Lou Gehrig

‘I know what it’s like to be an outcast in society. I know what it’s like to want to find strength, and more importantly, I know what it’s like to find that internal strength and rise out of the pain of being just sort of a weirdo.’ – Andy Biersack

‘My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.’ – Gloria Estefan

‘Britton Kelley is the best strength coach I’ve had in my life – he’s probably the best in the country. He has really transformed my body and really made me a lot stronger. A lot of guys he has trained are in the NBA.’ – Tobias Harris

‘From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.’ – Francois Rabelais

‘Roblox’s strength has always been both capitalizing on the early phase but playing the long-game as well.’ – David Baszucki

‘Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.’ – Esther Williams

‘The hardest thing about acting is all of the other things you have to think about besides performing… Your image, your team, networking – not to mention the mental strength you need to be able to stay unaffected by the rejection that every actor experiences.’ – Cameron Boyce

”Howard The Duck’ has a lot of fans, and usually when they come up to me, I just think they’re the coolest. Because it takes a lot of strength, a lot of perseverance to love ‘Howard the Duck.” – Lea Thompson

‘What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.’ – Annie Besant

‘The feeling between two fighters is profound. We go places where normal people don’t go. You smell a man’s blood, it smells like rust. You get into a clench, you feel his strength, you feel his desperation, he feels yours. You’re sharing this.’ – Chris Eubank Sr.

‘Where a man’s strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women – the way that he loves.’ – John Eldredge

‘Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports – we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.’ – Samina Baig

‘As much as we pump iron and we run to build our strength up, we need to build our mental strength up… so we can focus… so we can be in concert with one another.’ – Phil Jackson

‘I’ve always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they’d give me the strength I needed.’ – Florence Griffith Joyner

‘I maintain by going to spin four or five days a week. I love that I can get a solid butt-kicking in 40 minutes. I also strength train two or three times a week.’ – Alison Sweeney

‘It’s not strength that counts but experience and technique.’ – Bob Backlund

‘When you expand a business as fast as McDonald’s did, part of the strength you have is the process and the efficiency.’ – Steve Easterbrook

‘The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.’ – Colin Farrell

‘My mother has always instilled in us that we should carry ourselves with dignity despite the horror that came with the civil war. She also taught us that where you come from is very important because that’s what makes you who you are. So for me, whatever I’ve gone through had profoundly shaped me; it has given me strength and unwavering faith.’ – Alek Wek

‘A typical week of training leading up to a major championship is like the sprinkling of parsley at the end of a dish. It’s just the final little touches, that last little bit of strength or fitness, but mostly you are ready and are just maintaining and staying healthy.’ – Megan Rapinoe

‘I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘It wasn’t until my girlfriend, photographer Jennifer Rovero, took hundreds of pictures of me as I recovered from my amputations that things started to change. The process was a sort of therapy for me, which Jennifer coined as ‘photo therapy.’ I grew to see the beauty and strength in myself and my journey through the lens of her camera.’ – Lauren Wasser

‘The strength of America is not in Washington.’ – J. C. Watts

‘Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.’ – Jonathan Swift

‘Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.’ – Pope Paul VI

‘One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow.’ – Louis Navellier

‘What is a superhero? They’re supposed to represent hope, opportunity, and strength for everybody.’ – Aldis Hodge

‘I couldn’t change by myself. I needed my faith and belief in Christ to give me the strength to break free and allow people to help me to change.’ – Eddie Guerrero

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

‘The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.’ – Guy Finley

‘Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.’ – Erma Bombeck

‘First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.’ – William Bartram

‘Most people give Kennedy a passing grade, a good grade on the Cuban Missile Crisis handling, but what they don’t realize, if he had had strength, if he had showed strength before, there would never have been a Cuban Missile Crisis.’ – Louie Gohmert

‘My strength is that I’m an empath.’ – Catriona Gray

‘It feels more like football when the supporters are there. It gives us extra strength.’ – Joel Matip

‘In my perfect day, I wake up next to the woman of my dreams, and she’s crying tears of joy because she’s so excited about the life we have together. I’m preparing to compete in the 2016 Olympics with U.S.A. Team Handball, so I head to an intense training session with my coach to increase my physical strength and athleticism.’ – Lewis Howes

‘We live in a world where to admit anything negative about yourself is seen as a weakness, when it’s actually a strength. It’s not a weak move to say, ‘I need help.’ In the long run, it’s way better, because you have to fix it.’ – Jon Hamm

‘Empathy seems to be seen as a weakness. We condition people to withdraw it to succeed. But really, it needs to be re-seen as a strength again if there is to be any kind of hope in the world.’ – Matt Bellamy

‘You won’t find a CEO who doesn’t talk about a ‘powerful culture’ as a source of competitive advantage. At the same time, you’d be hard-pressed to find a CEO who has much of a clue about the strength of that culture.’ – Marcus Buckingham

‘Masculinity should never be about exclusion or intolerance, nor displays of unyielding strength.’ – Jonathan Capehart

‘Football helped me with confidence that I needed. It gave me a sense of independence and earning my own money and my own keep. That’s what it served. It gave me the strength to be able to deal with rejection, politics, hard work, and being introduced to pain and embracing what’s uncomfortable.’ – John David Washington

‘It isn’t right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.’ – Xenophanes

‘I want to encourage all kids to cultivate inner strength.’ – Rochelle Humes

‘I feel I’m a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I’m transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.’ – Sally Mann

‘I’ve been doing a lot of deadlifting and squatting for overall strength.’ – Jesse Lee Soffer

‘I’ve had a sense of self-determination and strength that have carried me through. Hopefully I can bring that into my work and guide other people to do the same.’ – Brian Michael Smith

‘Not to get too deep, but I think one of the reasons we embrace superheroes and this world is that these are just normal people that have incredible powers that are relatable in some ways – in that we don’t have great super powers, but there’s strength within us that we can utilize in our lives. Ultimately, they’re just normal people with problems.’ – Alexandra Daddario

‘Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I’m interested in practical strength that’s going to help me run, jump, twist, punch.’ – Jason Statham

‘Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.’ – Lao Tzu

‘There are moments of high mood, there are moments of low mood, there are moments of injury, there are moments of strength, there are moments of progress, there are moments of stagnation. All we can do is keep on pushing.’ – Laurel Hubbard

‘Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I’m not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events – anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I’m saying because I have experience with that.’ – Wladimir Klitschko

‘If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In the end, it depends on the strength of ideas in each piece.’ – Elizabeth Peyton

‘I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.’ – Ian Mcewan

‘These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what – what their stats would be without steroids? It’s impossible to tell.’ – Jose Canseco

‘It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘I have been knocked down so many times, as a player and as a person, and I have had the strength, I suppose that has come from my parents, to be able to pick myself each and every single time and go out there in the face of adversity and try my best and perform. I didn’t read it up in a book. It’s deep down and it’s part of my family trait.’ – Brian Lara

‘They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.’ – Curtis Joseph

‘Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.’ – Joseph Nye

‘The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?’ – Dag Hammarskjold

‘There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‘be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough’ are not true. They are fairy tales.’ – Jocko Willink

‘Having the strength to tune out negativity and remain focused on what I want gives me the will and confidence to achieve my goals.’ – Gisele Bundchen

‘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.’ – Logic

‘My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.’ – Marge Piercy

‘When I make a fist, it’s strong, and you can’t tear it apart. As long as there’s unity, there’s strength.’ – Ara Parseghian

‘I had always been proud of my body – its strength and grace enabled me to pursue my passions.’ – Misty Copeland

‘I wish I was a gorgeous mixologist, but that was not my god-given strength.’ – Jonathan Van Ness

‘Our biggest strength has always been the fans. All over, wherever we have gone, CSK has got support.’ – MS Dhoni

‘You know that neither numbers nor strength give the victory, but that side which, with the assistance of the gods, attacks with the greatest resolution is generally irresistible.’ – Xenophon

‘I think America’s strength is in innovation.’ – Lonnie Johnson

‘I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.’ – Barbara Corcoran

‘Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.’ – David Brainerd

‘My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble; to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone.’ – Missy Elliott

‘Emotionally damaged men all too often rip apart their own lives, and those of their partners and children. I see both physical fitness and emotional strength as virtues, but they are acquired by entirely different means.’ – George Monbiot

‘Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.’ – William J. Clinton

‘It’s very easy to approach a character like that – a so-called strong woman who overcomes the odds – and give a one-note performance, playing that strength alone. Strength is only one thing a person has.’ – Mary Steenburgen

‘If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this.’ – Ellen G. White

‘Sports play a very important role in consolidating the national strength, adding lustre to the country’s prestige and honour, inspiring people with national dignity and pride, and imbuing the whole society with revolutionary mettle.’ – Kim Jong-un

‘Being a caretaker is, and never will be, an easy job; in fact, it is that hardest job in the world and many times a thankless job. You have to be the pillar of strength even when you feel like you are crumbling to pieces inside.’ – Jenna Morasca

‘I really believe in the old expression that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. It’s through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.’ – Christie Brinkley

‘I was always fascinated by strength. Arnold was an idol of mine.’ – Brock Lesnar

‘I’m taking each day one day at a time, and building up my strength and endurance. It’s crazy because it takes no time at all to lose everything you have and then so much time to gain it back.’ – Michelle McCool

‘I think there’s strength in seeing somebody who’s not necessarily winning at life… to make something that makes people feel like they’ve won when they hear it.’ – Aldous Harding

‘I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.’ – Dusty Baker

‘But when I lived as a monk, solitude is often spoken of as a strength. And so the first thing I’d recommend is finding one thing that you can do every single day that brings you joy. It may be reading a book you love. It may be looking at a beautiful piece of art.’ – Jay Shetty

‘And when I look at my mother, I reflect on her strength and endurance. She’s cranky sometimes, but she is lovable and loving. I’d be happy to be there at 86.’ – Lisa Scottoline

‘What batsmen like me do for fitness is often a bit different to what bowlers like Jimmy Anderson or Stuart Broad do but everyone in the squad has a big focus on core strength. It is really important for batting, bowling and fielding. You need a strong core and spine so your movement isn’t restricted out there.’ – Joe Root

‘I think the beauty of Catholicism is its consistency through both successes and difficulties. I’ve counted on my faith to give me strength through both training and competition – but also in school, with my family and everyday life.’ – Katie Ledecky

‘I am the future of strength as I am King of the Stones!’ – Hafthor Bjornsson

‘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.’ – Francis Quarles

‘One of the primary purposes of civilization – and certainly its primary strength – is the guarantee that family life can flourish in unity, peace, and order.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China’s international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.’ – Hu Jintao

‘Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.’ – John Cheever

‘If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.’ – Ben Elton

‘What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.’ – Harold Bloom

‘The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.’ – Jacques Maritain

‘I am always interested in that relationship between outer reality and inner desire, and I think it is important to pay attention to the inner voice because it is the only way to discover your mission in life and the only way to develop the strength to break with whatever familial or cultural norms are preventing you from fulfilling your destiny.’ – Laura Esquivel

‘People talk about great motivators, but I think motivation has to come from within the individual first, because if you haven’t got that inner strength yourself, and belief and you want to do well, it doesn’t matter what anybody else says. You have to have that; it has to be inbuilt.’ – Chris Coleman

‘There are times when I’m still struggling. It’s hard, but I know for a fact everyone has that strength to fight through it.’ – Eddie Kingston

‘What I’ve learned is that unless it’s an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you’re repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘The way I’ve approached my career, I’ve always tried to be pretty good at everything. I think if you ask players about my game, they would say I’m pretty good at everything, but I don’t think they’d say I’m the best at certain things. Maybe that’s my strength, not having a serious weakness or many weaknesses. I just try and be solid.’ – Daniel Nestor

‘If a war breaks out with the United States, the navy will have to put all its strength into interceptive operations, so… massive sea-borne supplies might be momentarily interrupted.’ – Isoroku Yamamoto

‘My poet’s heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.’ – Atal Bihari Vajpayee

‘The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.’ – George W. Bush

‘Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation.’ – Debbie Ford

‘It is a strength of mine to not really bother too much when people have their opinions, especially negative opinions.’ – Virgil van Dijk

‘When I go to the gym, stretching is very important. For polo, you don’t need too much strength so you don’t want to build yourself up too much. It’s all about flexibility.’ – Nacho Figueras

‘My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.’ – Malcolm Muggeridge

‘People are deeply interested in rewriting the established narratives and challenging what we see as the norm in every way. We want to see a new definition of beauty and sexy. We want to see different people look vulnerable and show strength and redefine what it means to be strong.’ – Winston Duke

‘By conquering all the seven summits I will prove that physical disability can never be a hindrance in achieving your life’s goal if you have mental strength, strong willpower and firm determination.’ – Arunima Sinha

‘The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.’ – Kim Jong-un

‘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.’ – Jack Herer

‘Now I’m strong: I can run fast, I can lift weights, and that in itself is quite empowering, to have that physical strength. It changes my whole mental attitude.’ – Esme Creed-Miles

‘I love puzzles, challenges, the feeling that you get when you have an obstacle and go through adversity, finding the strength to go on.’ – Jason Collins

‘As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.’ – George Mason

‘We’re not friends – in fact, we pretty much as a rule irritate each other. But we’ve learnt to embrace it and use it as a strength… the other guy’s always seeing something from the opposite pole.’ – Jamie Hyneman

‘I am never going to be much of a physical presence. For me, it’s more about taking my strength and finding a way to use it as an advantage.’ – Connor McDavid

‘I have arm-wrestled here and there… guys seem to want to test my strength.’ – Shania Twain

‘The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.’ – Claiborne Pell

‘Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism… but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.’ – Frank Lloyd Wright

‘I was born and raised in China, Mandarin is my first language, and I definitely know America. I think that will be my strength, to try and bring the two worlds together.’ – Chloe Zhao

‘I’ve been told to ‘man up’ after talking about depression on Twitter. Man up means ‘be strong because that’s what a man is.’ And they don’t just mean physical strength, they mean emotional strength. What, because men get into fights or go to wars to fight? It should be ‘woman up.” – Limmy

‘If you want to become physically stronger, you’ll need healthy habits – like going to the gym. You’ll also have to give up unhealthy habits – like eating junk food. Building mental strength requires healthy habits – like practicing gratitude – while also giving up unhealthy behavior, like giving up after the first failure.’ – Amy Morin

‘We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.’ – Sophie Swetchine

‘Strength lies not in defence but in attack.’ – Adolf Hitler

‘Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.’ – Ronald Blythe

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

‘Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.’ – Richard E. Byrd

‘The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.’ – Adolf Hitler

‘I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.’ – Etty Hillesum

‘To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.’ – Lawrence Clark Powell

‘Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one’s self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.’ – Chiang Kai-shek

‘Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.’ – James Anthony Froude

‘The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.’ – Richard J. Daley

‘I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places – uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me – I find fault.’ – Branch Rickey

‘Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth is strength… free discussion is the very life of truth.’ – Thomas Huxley

‘There is a growing strength in women but it’s in the forehead, not the forearm.’ – Beverly Sills

‘One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.’ – Jean Anouilh

‘Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.’ – Tryon Edwards

‘Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.’ – James M. Barrie

‘You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person’s strength.’ – Charlotte Bronte

‘Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.’ – Francis Bacon

‘The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘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.’ – Al Gore

‘The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘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.’ – James Freeman Clarke

‘If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals.’ – Robert Conklin

‘I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.’ – Louis MacNeice

‘That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.’ – Noel Coward

‘Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.’ – Alfred Jarry

‘We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. America’s lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.’ – Ben Nelson

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

‘Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.’ – Guy Verhofstadt

‘Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.’ – Guy Verhofstadt

‘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.’ – Bryant H. McGill

‘As I’ve often said, Wisconsin’s greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and raise their kids with good, Midwestern values.’ – Jim Doyle

‘Social Security is not just the foundation of America’s retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state’s economy.’ – Debbie Stabenow

‘I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.’ – Lindsey Graham

‘I understand now that the vulnerability I’ve always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can’t experience life without feeling life. What I’ve learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it’s a strength.’ – Elisabeth Shue

‘My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.’ – Michael Eisner

‘It requires more strength to be gentle, so it’s the everyday encounters of life that I think we’ve prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.’ – Bob Keeshan

‘Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.’ – Alain Badiou

‘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.’ – Josefa Iloilo

‘Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.’ – Karen Armstrong

‘The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.” – Willem Dafoe

‘What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.’ – Max Jacob

‘The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.’ – Sadaharu Oh

‘There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.’ – Francis Jeffrey

‘I’ve been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.’ – Maria Sharapova

‘I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.” – Ricky Williams

‘There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one’s anonymity.’ – John Knowles

‘About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.’ – Jane Elliot

‘I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I’d been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn’t have been a comic.’ – Dudley Moore

‘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.’ – Doris Humphrey

‘I believe you’ll develop speed via strength work which includes hill running, either repeats, or running hilly courses as the Kenyans do on a steady basis.’ – Bill Rodgers

‘The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.’ – Edwin Booth

‘But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.’ – Friedrich List

‘We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.’ – John Bacon

‘There’s a lot of strength in the U.S., but there’s a lot of froth also. The froth will blow off. We’re going to have to face up to some realities that we’re not fully facing up to right now.’ – Jeffrey Sachs

‘I like a women who’s got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that’s fine.’ – James Hetfield

‘Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.’ – Sextus Propertius

‘Women’s strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.’ – William Moulton Marston

‘Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.’ – Henry Chadwick

‘The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it; making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go.’ – Young Buck

‘The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers’ strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.’ – Andy Stern

‘When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.’ – Everett Dirksen

‘Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don’t really have that strength inside to fly.’ – Andrew Shue

‘An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.’ – Adam Schiff

‘The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.’ – Chen Shui-bian

‘If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would… but its just impossible to get to everyone.’ – Dante Hall

‘It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.’ – Stephen Lewis

‘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.’ – Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

‘We’ve got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.’ – Peter Mandelson

‘I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.’ – Jane D. Hull

‘My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn’t talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.’ – Jayne Meadows

‘At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.’ – Lee Greenwood

‘Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes; but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor.’ – John Bates Clark

‘The thing with me. I can’t stick musicians. I’ve thought about this. I can’t stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that’s my strength I can hear what they can’t.’ – Mark E. Smith

‘To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.’ – Arthur Compton

‘Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.’ – Douglas Hurd

‘It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points – Richmond and Atlanta – the enemy’s main strength is concentrated.’ – Knute Nelson

‘The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.’ – Paul P. Harris

‘You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.’ – William Cavendish

‘Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.’ – Charles Vest

‘I mean I’m not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it’s right and when it’s wrong and that’s what my strength is.’ – Jim Cramer

‘We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there’s a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together.’ – Jerry Stiller

‘At some point, you can’t lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.’ – Vint Cerf

‘Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don’t want to downplay it.’ – Gerhard Schroder

‘Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been this city’s greatest strength.’ – Jane Byrne

‘Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.’ – Jerry Costello

‘The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.’ – Robert Teeter

‘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.’ – Ted Olson

‘A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.’ – Greg Walden

‘I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.’ – Bainbridge Colby

‘We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.’ – John M. McHugh

‘While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.’ – Louise Slaughter

‘There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.’ – Fay Wray

‘The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she’s not just annoying. It’s that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn’t have time because she has so much going on in her brain.’ – Mary Lynn Rajskub

‘Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That’s the key.’ – Jack LaLanne

‘Without strength and courage it’s really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you’re alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.’ – Scott Hamilton

‘What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.’ – Geraldine Ferraro

‘Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.’ – Shimon Peres

‘Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.’ – George Porter

‘Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point.’ – Charles Francis Richter

‘I’m not just a doormat. I’m not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it’s about trying to find some strength through that.’ – Lucinda Williams

‘You get elected, often, if you’re a woman, on the strength of the women’s vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.’ – Eleanor Clift

‘We’ve worked very hard as a band and would like to think we’ve got this far on the strength of our music.’ – Caroline Corr

‘Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.’ – Joseph Barber Lightfoot

‘My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders.’ – Miguel Indurain

‘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.’ – Alex Campbell

‘I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.’ – Guy Forget

‘I want kids to understand that strength doesn’t come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.’ – Willie Aames

‘I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is… I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances… but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.’ – Gregory Harrison

‘I don’t think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.’ – Little Richard

‘My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength.’ – Anthony Anderson

‘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.’ – Warren Christopher

‘That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.’ – Edward Grey

‘I’ve completed the first part of my preparations without injury problems. My speed is good and I’m doing lots of volume for strength.’ – Jonathan Brown

‘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.’ – Jay Alan Sekulow

‘I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.’ – Merlin Olsen

‘Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.’ – John Lothrop Motley

‘That’s one strength that Stevie has. She’s really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.’ – Lindsey Buckingham

‘A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.’ – Walter Martin

‘You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I’ve had it. I haven’t got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don’t get a lot of expression on the keyboard.’ – Midge Ure

‘The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.’ – William Bligh

‘I have the strength to endure it all.’ – Moshe Dayan

‘With a houseful of kids you give each other strength.’ – Michael Landon

‘All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.’ – Arthur Scargill

‘The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.’ – Daniel Nathans

‘I like form and shape and strength in pictures.’ – Herb Ritts

‘Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.’ – Henry Villard

‘I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me.’ – Susan Smith

‘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.’ – Agnes Smedley

‘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.’ – Alison Bechdel

‘What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.’ – Hassan Nasrallah

‘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.’ – Max Muller

‘The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent’s playing ability is comparable, does the game develop.’ – Vladimir Kramnik

‘My mother’s sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.’ – Buffalo Bill

‘I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.’ – John Sebastian

‘To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.’ – Philip Kaufman

‘All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.’ – Christian Lous Lange

‘In view of China’s growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia’s permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.’ – Jim Costa

‘I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I’ve definitely been through it – not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.’ – Alison Lohman

‘For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He’s right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.’ – Brian Mulroney

‘It’s always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you’re always afraid that you don’t know your own strength and might hurt someone.’ – Catherine Deneuve

‘Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.’ – Shemar Moore

‘Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.’ – Timothy Murphy

‘I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.’ – Louis Finkelstein

‘I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.’ – Kurt Huber

‘My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America’s strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.’ – Ernest Istook

‘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.’ – Ernest Istook

‘Productive power is the foundation of a country’s economic strength.’ – Stafford Cripps

‘I saw him… at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength.’ – Dennis Nilsen

‘My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it’s a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month’s time, so it’s going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I’m good to go so far.’ – Picabo Street

‘Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation’s civil rights history.’ – John Shimkus

‘Took us a great amount of strength to get them into the world, and for them to be in the world. I think that their little spirits, you know, just said, well, we’re going to be there. So it makes it very special because of it.’ – Cheryl Tiegs

‘The first thing is that we’re being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They’re trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.’ – John Frankenheimer

‘With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.’ – Alphonsus Liguori

‘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.’ – Elvis Stojko

‘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.’ – John George Nicolay

‘Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.’ – Christian Lous Lange

‘I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.’ – Georg Brandes

‘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.’ – Alan Thicke

‘But I really like hosting, I think it’s a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I’m funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.’ – Garry Shandling

‘Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.’ – Karl Radek

‘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.’ – Michael McCaul

‘Well first of all it’s a business and it’s a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that’s getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.’ – Robert Redford

‘I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it’s in our unity that we’ll have the greatest strength.’ – Woody Harrelson

‘When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.’ – Christopher Lasch

‘The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.’ – Goldwin Smith

‘The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?’ – Georges Duhamel

‘In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.’ – Marlo Thomas

‘The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.’ – Laurent Fabius

‘Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.’ – Lech Walesa

‘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.’ – Randy Neugebauer

‘I want to exude strength and intelligence.’ – Portia de Rossi

‘I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.’ – Joshua Lederberg

‘Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.’ – Gijs de Vries

‘The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.’ – John L. Lewis

‘Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.’ – Josephus Daniels

‘I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility.’ – Mark-Paul Gosselaar

‘Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.’ – Moshe Sharett

‘It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.’ – Paul von Hindenburg

‘If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.’ – Brittany Murphy

‘I haven’t strength of mind not to need a career.’ – Ruth Benedict

‘I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it’s own greatest strength – it’s diversity.’ – Melissa Etheridge

‘Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.’ – Sophie Swetchine

‘Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.’ – Black Elk

‘Good composition is like a suspension bridge – each line adds strength and takes none away.’ – Robert Henri

‘The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.’ – Augustus Hare

‘Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.’ – Charlotte Bunch

‘To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.’ – Norman Thomas

‘We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.’ – John Dos Passos

‘It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength – a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.’ – Mitt Romney

‘Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.’ – Robert Reich

‘I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.’ – Ruth Benedict

‘It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.’ – Joseph Conrad

‘Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.’ – Georg Buchner

‘Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.’ – Joseph Conrad