Strength Quotes

"I firmly believe in prayer. It is possible to reach out and tap the unseen power which gives strength and anchor in time of need."

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

"When what we introduce into the children's world of ideas and feelings is in line with the direction of the developmental forces of a given stage of life, we strengthen the entire developing person in a way that remains a source of strength throughout that person's life."

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

"Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads."

"I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!"

"The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world."

"In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it."

"Strength and wisdom are not opposing values."

"I've already had two stem cell transplants. Very rarely does somebody have a third, so I have to maintain my strength so I can go through this."

"Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same."

"May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea."

"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."

"I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism."

"Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow."

"You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength."

"I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days."

"It's a real strength for me that I've never minded the training process. It's something I enjoy. I really like being in the gym or, certainly, on the field."

"I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America."

"'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm."

"In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to 'believe in God' and 'don't give up' to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can't call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony."

"Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength."

"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."

"Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go."

"I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage."

"My strength is translating emotion because I'm such a feeler."

"When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."

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

"I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently."

"People do not lack strength; they lack will."

"We believe with all the strength of our spirit that mankind has a supreme, primary and irreplaceable need which can be satisfied only through Jesus Christ, the first-born among men, the head of the new humanity, in whom each individual reaches full self-realization."

"A living art of teaching, one that rests on a true understanding of the human being, has a thread of strength running through it that stimulates individual students to participate so that it is not necessary to keep their attention through direct 'individualized' treatment."

"If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me."

"We acquire the strength we have overcome."

"I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on."

"The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized."

"To see a friend who has suffered the loss of all things begin again with trust and love, gives us strength to continue on."

"Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable."

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

"Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive."

"Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him."

"Extraordinary circumstances often bring along with them extraordinary strength. No man knows, till the experiment, what he is capable of effecting."

"A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies."

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

"Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground."

"Increased spiritual strength is a gift from God which He can give when we push in His service to our limits. Through the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, our natures can be changed. Then our power to carry burdens can be increased more than enough to compensate for the increased service we will be asked to give."

"It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh."

"The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?"

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

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