Quotes with strength

  • Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
  • Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle...
  • 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.
  • I'm not a rich person financially, but I am in mind and soul. I have so much energy and strength, and I can do a lot of things that make me, and I think my fans, quite happy. When everything's gone, music alone shall live on.
  • The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
  • I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
  • I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.
  • I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
  • 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.
  • As man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche ''To give style'' to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Lao-Tzu Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • William E. Gladstone Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Mark Twain It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Maggie Kuhn Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
    Maggie Kuhn
    American activist (1905 - 1995)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi
    When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • David Gemmell A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.
    Quest For Lost Heroes (2011) 43
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Alan Thicke As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Alan Thicke As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • Mother Teresa Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Charles Kingsley 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.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Vince Lombardi Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Bill Owens Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Stephen R. Covey It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Albert Einstein Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Our strength grows out of our weakness.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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