Strength Quotes: Harnessing Inner Power and Overcoming Adversity
Discovering the Power Within
Strength is not merely measured by physical prowess, but by the resilience, courage, and determination that resides within us. It is the ability to rise above challenges, persevere in the face of adversity, and find solace in our inner power. In this article, we delve into the realm of strength and present a collection of inspiring quotes that celebrate resilience, encourage perseverance, and remind us of the remarkable power we possess.
Strength is not the absence of vulnerability; it is the willingness to confront our fears, embrace our emotions, and push beyond our limits. It is in the moments of struggle that we discover our true capacity for growth and transformation. By harnessing our inner strength, we can navigate life’s challenges with grace, emerge stronger than ever, and inspire others along the way.
Words of Inspiration: Quotes that Inspire Strength
Throughout history, poets, philosophers, and resilient individuals have shared their insights and wisdom to inspire strength in others. Their quotes encapsulate the essence of resilience, determination, and the indomitable human spirit. Below, we present a collection of strength quotes that remind us of our inherent power, encourage us to persevere, and inspire us to embrace challenges as opportunities for growth.
Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.
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.
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.
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.
I would say darts is probably 15 per cent throwing. The rest of it is mental strength. Being able to hold your nerve.
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.
Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
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.
Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people’s desire for change.
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
Pilates has been the perfect solution to maintaining strength and vitality in my life.
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.
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.
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.
Adding muscle and strength will be a big help to me.
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.
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.
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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.
With a houseful of kids you give each other strength.
Defiance in itself is a sign of strength, and strength is a light side of human nature – when at all present, that is.
I’m an activist for gay marriage equality and children’s rights. I’m the face of Share Our Strength.
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.
We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.
The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.
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.
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.
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
My strength is my enthusiasm.
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.
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.
Gene Roddenberry continually reminded us that the Star Trek Enterprise was a metaphor for starship Earth. And the strength in this starship came from its diversity, coming together and working in concert as a team. That is the strength of our countries, Canada and the United States. We are nations of diversity.
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.
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
Each year, the State of the Union reflects the priorities of the current administration – and it provides the American people with a collective moment to reflect on the strength and security of our country.
My poet’s heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.
I’m probably the least flexible athlete you’ll find. When it comes to yoga, I can’t get in the positions and I can’t hold them. You have to be pretty flexible to do it. Once you get certain positions, you have to have the core strength to hold those positions. It’s a pretty good workout.
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.
I’m not a rich person financially, but I am in mind and soul. I have so much energy and strength, and I can do a lot of things that make me, and I think my fans, quite happy. When everything’s gone, music alone shall live on.
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.
Being a great horseman does not rely on physical strength but more on the mind and sensibility.
I’m a true believer in the strength of teamwork, in the power of dreams.
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
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.
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.
What is a superhero? They’re supposed to represent hope, opportunity, and strength for everybody.
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.
The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
My whole life, my strength was my technical ability and my vision and being able to see certain things on the field.
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.
I loved Catherine Deneuve, Sophia Loren, and Ursula Andress. They had an incredible strength but fragility at the same time, especially Catherine Deneuve, who had an aloofness that impressed me.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
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.
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.
A good life depends on the strength of our relationships with family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and strangers.
The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
Sometimes your greatest strength can emerge as a weakness if the context changes.
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
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.
The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Nobody picks on a strong man.
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
God gave me such great abilities, and sometimes that’s a strength and sometimes it’s not a strength. It’s just the way it is.
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.
I expend a lot of energy in my 50-60 minutes of cardio and strength training every day.
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.
I’ve come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren’t comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It’s a contradiction.
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
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.
I don’t believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn’t give strength; it just gives loneliness.
If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would… but its just impossible to get to everyone.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
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.
When you expand a business as fast as McDonald’s did, part of the strength you have is the process and the efficiency.
I’d try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn’t always work.
Building mental strength is the key to reaching our full potential in life.
My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
It takes strength to be kind; it’s not a weakness.
My mom’s one of the toughest ladies I know. I’ve seen her lose both her brothers, both her parents. She’s been through a lot, and to see her get up every day and put a smile on her face, that shows nothing but strength.
It takes so much strength to say to your ego, ‘You know what? You’re going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.’
I think it’s very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.
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.
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.
The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
I’ve been through it all, baby, I’m mother courage.
Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.
I think America’s strength is in innovation.
I’m a fan of functional strength.
What gives you strength at any circumstance is your understanding of yourself.
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.
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.
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
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.
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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.
Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.
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.
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
God gave me the strength to see, and breathe, and talk.
Our manufacturing in India has grown with a lot of indigenous strength.
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.’
I just want people to understand that regardless of what it is that you do – whether you’re a teacher, whether you are a doctor, a single mother, a college student, a big sister – that you have strength within you, and I want people to be inspired to walk in their own superhero regardless of what it is that they do.
As long as I’ve got my life, health and strength, and I’m in my right mind? I’mma get money.
In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
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.
Solitude is the strength of being alone. It’s where we become our best company.
A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.
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.
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.
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.
It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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.
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.
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.
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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.
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.
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.
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.
And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
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.
The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
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.
Along with my will power, it was my parents who stood by me like a pillar of strength in my most challenging phase of life.
My biggest strength is my versatility.
As hard as it is, owning who you are and knowing what you want is the only sure path to affirmation… I want women to know they can get out of any situation if they return to their core source of strength: themselves.
Christopher believed that to overcome any adversity, no matter how challenging, you need to go forward each day with strength, determination and compassion.
At Casablanca we did ‘Midnight Express,’ ‘Flashdance,’ and ‘The Deep.’ My willingness for risk has always been my strength.
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
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.
I’m not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.
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.
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.
A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.
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.
I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength.
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.
There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated certain people poorly at times. It was because of who I was. It was almost my strength. I came in all business. I tried to find ways to fit in with that demeanor, but it’s not easy.
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.
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.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
The puma… the cat… is not just about power and speed and strength… but it is also a very elegant animal. That’s what we’ve tried to reflect in our products.
I realized that my strength was being different.
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.
Before I became a fighter pilot, everyone said that women didn’t have the physical strength. Well, I had just completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.
I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I’ve built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I’ve improved as a dancer.
On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn’t come naturally. It’s all necessary stuff I suppose but it’s not my strength.
I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!
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.
Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
Every team has its weakness, and every team has its strength.
Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
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.
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.
I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America’s communities, large and small.
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.
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.
In Europe, we see the underlying strength of the economy, especially in southern European countries.
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.
What’s so lovely about Wonder Woman is yes, she has the strength and power of a goddess, but she has the heart and mind of a human. So I play her as I think a woman like me would act in the situations she’s going through. You treat her as a normal woman who happens to be fantastic and almighty.
No force can conquer the service personnel and people who, in support of their great leader, have turned out in the struggle to defend their country with confidence in the validity of their cause and their own strength – this is a law and a truth taught by history.
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.
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.
You’re blessed if you have the strength to work.
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.
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.
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.
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I’m a complete overthinker about everything.
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.
Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.
Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.
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.
My mentality is my biggest strength.
The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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.
The potential strength of female friendship and the bonds that can be formed, especially over a lifelong relationship, is very profound.
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
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.
My being a black woman is not a deficit. It is a strength. Because I could not be where I am had I not overcome so many other barriers. Which means you know I’m relentless, you know I’m persistent, and you know I’m smart.
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.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
My inner strength comes from my friends. I have a very close group of friends and family, and we all help each other through our dark times.
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.
I had to be steadfast in my Christian beliefs, seeking strength from them.
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
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.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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.
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.
The scars in my face are the source of my strength.
I brought hurdles, all ten of them, to the beach and had my hurdling sessions very close to the water. Those days, I trained on the beach for nearly three months every season with coach Nambiar. I used to run into the water, almost chasing the receding waves, and that was how I built up strength.
I don’t think I’ve ever been as humbled as I have been in Pilates. It’s incredible how much body control and how much isolated strength you have to have to complete these movements successfully.
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.
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.
Heroism is endurance for one moment more.
Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.
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.
In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.
When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.
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.
It was a really interesting thing to explore, the strength it takes for someone to stay when they truly do not want to be on this Earth anymore.
People are realising that vulnerability isn’t a weakness, and the rise of mental health-related humour is making vulnerability feel like a strength.
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.
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.
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.
Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water!
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Yoga is equal parts strength, flexibility, balance, and endurance.
I believe that the U.S. is the strongest country in the whole world and the country that supports Israel the most. I believe that it has the strength to push Israel towards peace.
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.
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.
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
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.
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
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.
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.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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.
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.
To build my core strength, I do push-ups, sit-ups, crunches, on-the-spot running with bands, and individual runs.
I’m a true believer in the strength of teamwork, in the power of dreams, and in the absolute necessity of a support structure.
Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.
On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.
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.
Spend the first six to 12 months building a great product or service that people love, rather than chasing investors. When the time comes to engage investors, you will be meeting them from a position of strength. This makes all the difference.
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
I’m coming from a place of total strength and humility now.
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.
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.
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.
I was always fascinated by strength. Arnold was an idol of mine.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
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.
We as men, need to give the Indian women all the strength that she needs, rightfully asking to be able to walk with head held high.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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.
People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It’s their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.
Yoga is at the core of my health and wellness routine; even if it’s only for 10 to 15 minutes I find it helps me to re-center and to focus as well as improve my overall core strength.
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.
Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.
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.
My bad habits aren’t my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.
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.
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism… but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That’s success.
We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
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.
What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.
Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
My family is my strength and my weakness.
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.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
My father has been a constant source of love and strength in my life.
When adversity strikes, that’s when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.
I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.
I believe in prayer. It’s the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
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.
As long as I feel that inner strength, I’ll be all right.
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
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.
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.
I bring a lot of energy and passion to what I do. Plus, I’ve had some weird feats of superhuman strength!
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.
When the storms of life come, if they come to me personally, to my family or to the world, I want to be strong enough to stand and be a strength to somebody else, be shelter for somebody else.
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.
I just hope that God will give me the strength that I can prove my worth.
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.
My family and God is my strength.
I would say wrestling gives you confidence. It gives you strength. It helps you learn discipline, and to know that you have to love the process and respect the process, and if you just keep going, you can accomplish anything.
Strength of will is the test of a young man’s possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?
Silence is a source of great strength.
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.
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.
All Anne Lister wanted was a wife, and the other liaisons couldn’t commit, but Ann Walker did. She took sacrament with her, and they became wife and wife. That shows extraordinary strength.
Vladimir Putin is only going to respond to action, strength, and resolve. He’s not going to respond to words.
Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
All that I have achieved has been possible not only because of my own strength and perseverance, gained through hardship, but also through other people’s support and belief in me.
The strength people need to proceed along the path of human development can come only from the spiritual worlds.
I have the strength to endure it all.
God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
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.
We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
I feel like it’s always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It’s often times your greatest ‘flaw’ which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
We’ve always tried to convey these strong messages of strength and power and doing good in the world and, at the same time, to not be afraid to look at the difficulties that we experience.
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.
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.
I have a more personal insight into the importance of core strength because my wife Louise runs a Pilates studio in London. I have enjoyed getting into Pilates. I am not the most supple but I enjoy Pilates more than yoga.
Girls’ strength lies in its diversity, and its members have walked in a lot of borrowed shoes to make it that way. ‘Solitude’ is a bold and sweet example of inspiration trumping originality.
Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.
Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.
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.
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
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.
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
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.
We live in a cerebral society, in which we have forgotten how fascinating strength is.
All I can tell you is that I’ve never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don’t let it out. Then there’s a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy.
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.
Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
Kindness is more than a virtue. It is a source of strength.
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
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.
Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will want to modify their children, enhance their intelligence, their strength and their beauty and all the other so-called desirable characteristics.
An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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.
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, ‘It’s the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.’ I’ve thought about that so many times in my life when things didn’t go right.
The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.
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.
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness – a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster – children into strength and athletic proportion.
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.
My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system; strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density; core strength exercise for a stable mid-section; and stretching to maintain mobility.
Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.
To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak – you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
There’s no way Daniel Bryan can beat me in a Royal Rumble match. It’s ridiculous. He’s nowhere near as heavy as me; he doesn’t have a fraction of the strength I have. There are a lot of ways that Daniel Bryan can possibly beat me.
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.
Old age is not a disease – it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
I get up every morning and say, ‘Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.’
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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.
The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.
A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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.
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.
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.
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.
The more mental strength you have, the better. If you look at some of the best players that we have seen over the years and that I have been playing with, mentally they are the best competitors as well, something I have worked hard on.
My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn’t talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.
My mother was my pillar of strength.
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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.
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.
I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
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.
The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct kicks in and he jumps to protect you and prove he’s worthy of your love.
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
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.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
There were times when chemo would eat my body, but I told myself that I have the strength and courage to win and come out stronger.
Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.
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.
Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ’s accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.
If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
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.
There’s a way to express femininity and independence and strength without going for hanging fruit.
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.
Kettlebells are the best for everything. We do snatches and swings with them for explosiveness and hamstring and lower back strength, and we’ll also throw them into conditioning circuits where I’ll do a burpee holding the kettlebells and transition into a 2-handed snatch.
When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
I believe that my greatest strength is a deep-rooted, unshakeable trust to never let myself give up.
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
I want my children to attend inclusive schools where diversity is respected and acknowledged as a sign of strength.
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.
We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.
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.
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
You must rouse into people’s consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
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.
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.
For my size and frame, 135 pounds fits me better, and a I feel really good here. I’ve actually gotten stronger because I’ve done a lot of strength and conditioning to actually lose the weight. It made me better.
People don’t realize that when they ‘throw out’ their back, it’s often because of weak abs. These muscles are essential for lower-back strength and good posture.
My strength would be my honesty and my passion towards my work.
I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that I detect in everyone, Neapolitan or not. The idea that ‘Neapolitanism’ and mass ignorance are somehow indissolubly linked is one that I am prepared to fight with all the strength I have.
If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.
I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.
I have arm-wrestled here and there… guys seem to want to test my strength.
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
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.
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.
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Indian democracy’s greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics.
The most fundamental strength of India is that we are a land of seekers. Seekers of truth and liberation. Not a land of believers. We are a godless nation.
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.
Brittle masculinity, in the right setting, becomes political atrocity. Strength brings problems; weakness brings others, but weakness posing as strength is the most dangerous of all.
I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.
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.
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.’
At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.
It is definitely hard when you’re going against the tide. Of course, it is tough. But does that mean you can’t do it? No, it depends on your strength, stamina and ability to take so much power against you.
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There’s something that’s sexy about a guy who has the strength to kill somebody, but is also vulnerable enough to be in love. It’s just those two sides – like, I don’t know why, but women for some reason aren’t attracted to normal guys, like, guys who are in between.
True strength is delicate.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
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.
I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.
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.
Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother’s discernment and my father’s strength.
Venture capital is an inherently optimistic form of investment – which is both its primary strength and its primary weakness.
When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of the pieces.
If I have any strength as a dancer, I got it all from Nijinska. Her barre was tough, and there were very difficult combinations.
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.
In conclusion, strength quotes serve as powerful reminders of the remarkable resilience and power that resides within us. They inspire us to confront adversity with courage, find strength in vulnerability, and navigate life’s challenges with grace. Let these quotes be a source of inspiration, guiding you to harness your inner strength, overcome obstacles, and emerge stronger and wiser. Remember, within you lies an extraordinary well of resilience, and by tapping into it, you can conquer any obstacle and create a life filled with courage, purpose, and triumph.
