Strength Quotes

Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength.

On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.

Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.

There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

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

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.

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.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

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.

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.

My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

True strength is delicate.

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

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.