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.