strength
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
10 thoughts from Og Mandino
I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
5 other quotes from Black Elk
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
3 views from Anna Freud
It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
14 quotes from Joseph Conrad
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
4 views from Louis Pasteur
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
19 wisdom & wit from Woodrow Wilson
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
5 more thoughts from Max Lerner
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
23 other views from Henry Miller
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
45 more thoughts from Thomas Fuller
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.
25 more quotes from Orison Swett Marden
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
10 more views from Charles de Secondat
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
4 other sayings from William Gurnall
In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
11 other wisdom & wit from Robert E. Lee
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
67 more thoughts from Francis Bacon
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
15 more quotes from Albert Schweitzer
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.
56 quotes from Khalil Gibran
Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.
30 quotes from Charles Caleb Colton
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
12 other sayings from Thomas Merton
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
24 wisdom & wit from Franklin D. Roosevelt
Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
2 quotes from Lawrence G. Lovasik
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
23 quotes from Paul Cezanne
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
9 more sayings from Swami Vivekananda
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.
3 more quotes from Everett Dirksen
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
10 views from Charles Lamb
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
45 views from John Ruskin
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
13 quotes from Francois Rabelais
I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
3 views from Georg Brandes
I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.
6 more wisdom & wit from Huey Newton
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
8 more quotes from James Dean
People do not lack strength they lack will.
73 sayings from Victor Hugo
The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
3 sayings from Robert Shea
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
31 quotes from Thomas Paine
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
45 more wisdom & wit from John Ruskin
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
31 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Paine
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
26 more quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
26 other wisdom & wit from Charles Dickens
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.
9 wisdom & wit from Audre Lorde
When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.
9 other views from Audre Lorde
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
8 wisdom & wit from Vernon Howard
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
23 views from Vincent Van Gogh
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.
9 wisdom & wit from Lawrence Welk
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
8 quotes from Malcolm Muggeridge
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
105 thoughts from Albert Einstein
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.
18 sayings from Jean Paul
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
17 more thoughts from Leo Buscaglia
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
3 quotes from Richard L. Evans
The virtue of paganism was strength the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
5 quotes from Augustus Hare
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
3 sayings from Cesar Chavez
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
13 more quotes from John Muir
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
6 sayings from Leo Rosten
Insincerity is always weakness sincerity even in error is strength.
9 wisdom & wit from George Henry Lewes
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
4 sayings from Giacomo Casanova
Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
2 quotes from Adolf Hitler
Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
7 quotes from James Anthony Froude
The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
2 quotes from Adolf Hitler
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
10 more quotes from Booker T. Washington
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
38 more sayings from William Hazlitt
We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.
4 sayings from David Brainerd
Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
2 more sayings from John Lothrop Motley
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
81 sayings from William Shakespeare
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
7 other thoughts from Corrie Ten Boom
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
41 more quotes from Marcus Aurelius
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
22 sayings from James Dyson
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
46 views from John F. Kennedy
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
33 quotes from Thomas Huxley
I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
22 quotes from Robert Browning
I have the strength to endure it all.
5 sayings from Moshe Dayan
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
3 views from Hal Borland
Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.
3 quotes from William Moulton Marston
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
26 sayings from Sigmund Freud
Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
3 more thoughts from Ho Chi Minh
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
135 thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
11 other quotes from Norman Vincent Peale
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
13 quotes from James M. Barrie
The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
22 wisdom & wit from Robert Browning
The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.
2 thoughts from Richard J. Daley
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
135 other sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
9 more wisdom & wit from John Cheever
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
9 more views from John Cheever
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
9 quotes from Charles Spurgeon
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
57 sayings from Blaise Pascal
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
31 other sayings from Helen Keller
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
4 more views from Ben Jonson
I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.
3 other quotes from Ruth Benedict
I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.
3 views from Ruth Benedict
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
59 more quotes from Elbert Hubbard
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
7 quotes from Lillian Hellman
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
26 more views from Frank Lloyd Wright
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
14 other wisdom & wit from Jean Anouilh
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
21 other quotes from Mignon McLaughlin
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
5 other quotes from Alexis Carrel
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.
16 quotes from Vince Lombardi
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
57 other quotes from Blaise Pascal
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
47 other views from George Orwell
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
18 thoughts from Marcel Proust
As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.
4 sayings from Emmet Fox
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
17 views from Calvin Coolidge
I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
10 quotes from Arthur Ashe
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible not to run away.
13 other thoughts from Dag Hammarskjold
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
15 quotes from Jean de La Fontaine
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
31 quotes from Eric Hoffer
Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.
10 quotes from Hermann Hesse
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts not amid joy.
6 quotes from Arthur Helps
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
35 quotes from Ernest Hemingway
What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.
2 more sayings from Max Jacob
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
9 other quotes from George Sand
Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.
4 sayings from Meir Kahane
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
18 quotes from Mother Teresa
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
15 quotes from Walter Scott
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
3 quotes from Maggie Kuhn
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
4 quotes from Henry Drummond
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
50 more quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
10 other thoughts from Luc de Clapiers
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
2 thoughts from Walter Martin
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
9 sayings from Elizabeth I
Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
3 other quotes from Alfred Jarry
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
63 quotes from Samuel Johnson
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
5 views from Cesare Pavese
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
90 other quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
26 thoughts from Theodor Adorno
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
5 other quotes from Cesare Pavese
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
4 quotes from William Samuel Johnson
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
100 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
24 more sayings from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
33 quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
33 more quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.
2 thoughts from Moshe Sharett
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
28 quotes from Napoleon Hill
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
100 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.
2 other quotes from Daniel Nathans
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
33 more wisdom & wit from Dwight D. Eisenhower
The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
6 quotes from Georg Buchner
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
100 other sayings from Mahatma Gandhi
With a houseful of kids you give each other strength.
5 wisdom & wit from Michael Landon
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
30 sayings from Eleanor Roosevelt
Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
30 sayings from Eleanor Roosevelt
You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
13 quotes from Mahalia Jackson
A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
5 more views from Indira Gandhi
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
52 views from George Eliot
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
8 more thoughts from Oliver Goldsmith
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
74 other wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
12 other quotes from James Allen
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
14 quotes from Laurence Sterne
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
18 sayings from Baruch Spinoza
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
13 other quotes from Amos Bronson Alcott
The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
3 more wisdom & wit from Benjamin Banneker
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
4 quotes from Jacques Maritain
The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
7 quotes from Ninon de L'Enclos
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
6 other quotes from Felix Frankfurter
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
3 other sayings from Ivan Turgenev
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
8 other thoughts from William Shenstone