Strength Quotes

I want to exude strength and intelligence.

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.

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

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.

So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness.

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

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

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

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

I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

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

It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

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.

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.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

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

I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.

As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.

I spend around two and half hours on the track every day running and another 2 hours in the weight room lifting weights with my strength coach.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong.

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

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.