Strength Quotes

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

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.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

My strength is my enthusiasm.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from.

There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated certain people poorly at times. It was because of who I was. It was almost my strength. I came in all business. I tried to find ways to fit in with that demeanor, but it's not easy.

I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.

A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.