Strength Quotes

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.

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

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.

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

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 exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.

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

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.

One ever feels his twoness - 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.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

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.

Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

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.

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.

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.