Quotes on strength

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.

Author: Willie Aames

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

Author: Aeschylus

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.

Author: Steve Albini

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

Author: Amos Alcott

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

Author: James Allen

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Author: Jean Anouilh

Our passion is our strength.

Author: Billie Armstrong

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Author: Francis Bacon

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Author: Alain Badiou

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

Author: Josephine Baker

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

Author: Benjamin Banneker

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

Author: James Barrie

The strongest person is not the one who always wins, but the one who dares to face their fears with courage and resilience.

Author: Amanda Smith

First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.

Author: William Bartram

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Author: Henry Beecher

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.

Author: John Beecher

The strongest hearts are forged through the fires of adversity, emerging with a resilience that shines brighter than any polished facade.

Author: Maya Angelou

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

Author: Ruth Benedict

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

Author: Ruth Benedict

Embrace the beauty in being different, for the world needs your unique light to shine bright.

Author: Cassandra Clare

The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.

Author: William Blackstone

True strength is not found in force, but in resilience and grace.

Author: Grace Lee

The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.

Author: William Bligh

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

Author: Harold Bloom

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.

Author: Orlando Bloom

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.

Author: W. Bois

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Author: Corrie Boom

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

Author: Hal Borland

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

Author: Georg Brandes

Cherish your uniqueness, for it is your most powerful weapon against conformity.

Author: Jennifer Lopez

I've completed the first part of my preparations without injury problems. My speed is good and I'm doing lots of volume for strength.

Author: Jonathan Brown

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

Author: Paul Brunton

The strongest trees are rooted in the darkest soils, just as the strongest souls are forged through life's toughest trials.

Author: Nikki Giovanni

That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.

Author: Lindsey Buckingham

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

Author: George Bush

Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength.

Author: Jane Byrne

Adversity reveals the true character of a person, for it is in times of struggle that our inner strength shines brightest.

Author: Maya Angelou

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun, but it's the one that stands tall and faces all adversities with resilience.

Author: Nikki Giovanni

Our scars tell stories of resilience, our wounds reveal our strength, and our hearts bear witness to the depth of our compassion.

Author: Natalie Portman

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.'

Author: Jimmy Carter

Sometimes the strongest minds disguise themselves in the quietest souls, for they know that true power speaks volumes in silence.

Author: Ella Hughes

At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

Author: Vinton Cerf

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

Author: Aime Cesaire

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Author: Paul Cezanne

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

Author: Henry Chadwick

The greatest power lies not in conforming to the status quo, but in staying true to who you are no matter the storm.

Author: Maya Angelou

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

Author: Cesar Chavez

Don't be afraid to stand out, for originality shines brightest in a sea of conformity.

Author: Angela Davis

It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.

Author: Warren Christopher

I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.

Author: Bainbridge Colby

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

Author: Charles Colton

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

Author: Joseph Conrad

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

Author: Anna Cooper

Embrace the beauty of being different, for it is in our uniqueness that true power and purpose reside.

Author: Sophia Johnson

The only true power lies in being unapologetically yourself, in a world that feeds off conformity and mediocrity.

Author: Angela Davis

I mean I'm not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it's right and when it's wrong and that's what my strength is.

Author: Jim Cramer

Dare to stand out in a sea of conformity, for the strongest souls shine brightest in the darkest of times.

Author: Lisa Jackson

The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'

Author: Willem Dafoe

The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.

Author: Richard Daley

Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.

Author: Judge Dalzell

True strength lies in the ability to embrace vulnerability, for it is in our flaws that we find our greatest power.

Author: Brene Brown

The strongest trees are rooted in the deepest soils; so too, are the most resilient souls grounded in the depths of adversity.

Author: Samantha Clarkson

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

Author: Ossie Davis

Strength comes from standing alone, not blending in with the crowd.

Author: Cassandra Clare

I have the strength to endure it all.

Author: Moshe Dayan

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.

Author: Catherine Deneuve

We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

Author: Indra Devi

Your uniqueness is your superpower, wield it with confidence and watch the world marvel at your brilliance.

Author: Angela Davis

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

Author: Ani DiFranco

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.

Author: Everett Dirksen

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

Author: Peter Drucker

Adversity is the fuel that ignites the flames of resilience within us, creating diamonds from the pressure we endure.

Author: Sierra Johnson

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

Author: Georges Duhamel

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

Author: Elizabeth Edwards

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Author: Dwight Eisenhower

My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.

Author: Michael Eisner

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Author: George Eliot

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

Author: Elizabeth Elizabeth I

I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.

Author: Black Elk

True strength is not measured by the challenges we face, but by the grace with which we overcome them.

Author: Lisa Mantle

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Author: Ralph Emerson

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Author: Ralph Emerson

Embrace the messiness of life, for it is in the chaos that true growth and transformation can take place.

Author: Brene Brown

The strongest hearts are forged in the fiercest flames of adversity.

Author: Michelle Obama

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Author: Euripides

It is better to be a lonely lion than a popular sheep.

Author: Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Author: Guy Forget

Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.

Author: John Forsythe

Do not be afraid to stand out in a crowd, for it is in your uniqueness that you find true strength.

Author: Sophia Johnson

The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.

Author: John Frankenheimer

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

Author: Felix Frankfurter

The strongest individuals are those who embrace the power of vulnerability and authenticity in a world full of masks and facades.

Author: Brene Brown

America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.

Author: Bill Frist

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

Author: Thomas Fuller

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

Author: Indira Gandhi

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Author: Johann Goethe

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Author: Oliver Goldsmith

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

Author: Billy Graham

That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.

Author: Edward Grey

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

Author: William Gurnall

Adversity is the key that unlocks hidden strengths within us, revealing our true resilience and determination.

Author: Angela Davis

If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but its just impossible to get to everyone.

Author: Dante Hall

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

Author: Robert Hamilton

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

Author: Augustus Hare

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

Author: David Hare

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.

Author: Paul Harris

Embrace the storms of life, for they can only strengthen your roots and make you more resilient.

Author: Maya Angelou

Like a tree standing tall and unyielding in the storm, let adversity only strengthen your roots, not sway your branches.

Author: Maya Angelou

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

Author: Arthur Helps

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Author: Robert Henri

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

Author: Brad Henry

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

Author: Katharine Hepburn

Embrace the storms of life, for they only serve to make you stronger and more resilient in the end.

Author: Lisa Brown

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

Author: Adolf Hitler

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

Author: Eric Hoffer

Do not be afraid to be different, for it is in your uniqueness that you will find your greatest strength.

Author: Angela Davis

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Author: Elbert Hubbard

The strongest hearts are forged in the fires of adversity, emerging as beacons of resiliency and hope.

Author: Maya Angelou

Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.

Author: Douglas Hurd

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

Author: Miguel Indurain

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.

Author: Robert Ingersoll

Embrace your unique journey, for it is in the twists and turns that you discover your true greatness.

Author: Michelle Obama

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

Author: Francis Jeffrey

Being kind is not a sign of weakness, but a display of strength and empathy.

Author: Lisa Frank

In a society that thrives on conformity, embracing your uniqueness is not only an act of defiance, but a celebration of your true self.

Author: Michelle Obama

Embrace the beauty of your own uniqueness, for true strength lies in staying true to oneself amidst a sea of conformity.

Author: Angela Davis

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

Author: William Johnson

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

Author: Ben Jonson

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

Author: Franz Kafka

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

Author: Meir Kahane

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.

Author: Chiang Kai-shek

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Author: Abdul Kalam

On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.

Author: Patrick Kennedy

Embrace the challenges that come your way, for it is through adversity that true strength and resilience are revealed.

Author: Maya Angelou

I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.

Author: Jaime King

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Author: Barbara Kingsolver

True strength is found in vulnerability, for only in embracing our flaws can we truly grow and evolve.

Author: Brene Brown

The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent's playing ability is comparable, does the game develop.

Author: Vladimir Kramnik

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Author: Charles Lamb

I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction.

Author: Nick Lampson

With a houseful of kids you give each other strength.

Author: Michael Landon

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

Author: Christian Lange

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

Author: Joshua Lederberg

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

Author: Robert Lee

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

Author: Ninon Lenclos

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

Author: Max Lerner

He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.

Author: Jared Leto