Strength Quotes

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

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.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

One man with courage makes a majority.

The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.

It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

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.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.

The Strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Whatever is in me is stronger than what is out there to defeat me.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

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.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. 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.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

Differences can be a strength.

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.

To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out

When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.

Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

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.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

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.

I was only given this life because I'm strong enough to live it

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

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.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

To disarm the people is the best and most effectual Way to enslave them.

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

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.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

Usually, when people talk about the "strength" of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.

Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

Our passion is our strength.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

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.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

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.

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the "hero" within us is revealed.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

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.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

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.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

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.'

If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

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.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

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.

In union there is strength.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

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.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower, bringing us into our own together, a god whose name in history is love ...

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

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.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

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.

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

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

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

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.

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.

Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.

You can deal with stressful life experiences with strength from past ones.

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

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.

I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support a hydrogen economy.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

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.

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.

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.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from your plan. Once you can see, touch and feel your objective, all you have to do is pull back and put all your strength behind it, and you'll hit your target every time.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

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

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

You are never strong enough that you don't need help.

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.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable

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.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

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

Strength is a matter of a made up mind.

No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.

Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This modern world is an aggressive, hyperactive, competitive, masculine world, and it needs the woman's touch as never before.

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.

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.

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

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

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.

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.

Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

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

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

My family is like a sanctuary to me. I always turn to them for support and strength. I take comfort in knowing no matter which path I choose, my family stands behind me.

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.

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

Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.

I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

Strength lies not in defence but in attack

I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.

Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions."

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

In seperateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

Union gives strength.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Sadness, joy, wonder - all feelings come from a place of grounded strength that comes from trust in yourself. We spend so much time trying to control our feelings out of fear that something may happen, that somebody may not love us, or walk away or die. It's only when you stop living in that fear of what other people might do to you or how they will react, only then are you free to be alive.

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face… do the thing you think you cannot do.

Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

You have to care. You can't do good work if you don't care. That's not necessarily a strength, but it gives you strength.

What does not kill you makes you stronger.

To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.