Strength Quotes

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.

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but its just impossible to get to everyone.

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

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.

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

You're blessed if you have the strength to work.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

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

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

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

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

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

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

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

Our passion is our strength.

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

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

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

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

I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.

I give myself strength by staying away from any music.

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.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

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

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.

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

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