Strength Quotes

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.

My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.

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

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

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.

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.