strength
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 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 quotes from Leo Rosten
Insincerity is always weakness sincerity even in error is strength.
9 more quotes from George Henry Lewes
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
4 thoughts from Giacomo Casanova
Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
2 thoughts from Adolf Hitler
Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
7 thoughts from James Anthony Froude
The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
2 sayings from Adolf Hitler
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
10 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 quotes from William Hazlitt
We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.
4 thoughts from David Brainerd
Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
2 quotes from John Lothrop Motley
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
81 other wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
7 other sayings from Corrie Ten Boom
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
41 more wisdom & wit from Marcus Aurelius
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
22 other wisdom & wit from James Dyson
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
46 quotes 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 sayings from Hal Borland
Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.
3 thoughts 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 views from Sigmund Freud
Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
3 wisdom & wit from Ho Chi Minh
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
135 sayings 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 more wisdom & wit from Norman Vincent Peale
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
13 more sayings from James M. Barrie
The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
22 quotes from Robert Browning
The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.
2 sayings from Richard J. Daley
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
135 other views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
9 more quotes from John Cheever
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
9 quotes from John Cheever
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
9 other quotes from Charles Spurgeon
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
57 views from Blaise Pascal
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
31 views from Helen Keller
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
58 more quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
4 views from Ben Jonson
I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.
3 wisdom & wit 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 sayings 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 other quotes from Lillian Hellman
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
26 views from Frank Lloyd Wright
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
14 more quotes from Jean Anouilh
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
21 thoughts from Mignon McLaughlin
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
5 more sayings 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 thoughts from Vince Lombardi
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
57 sayings from Blaise Pascal
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
47 views from George Orwell
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
18 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Emmet Fox
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
17 more thoughts from Calvin Coolidge
I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
10 more thoughts from Arthur Ashe
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible not to run away.
13 more 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 more quotes from Eric Hoffer
Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.
10 other wisdom & wit from Hermann Hesse
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts not amid joy.
6 other sayings from Arthur Helps
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
35 sayings from Ernest Hemingway
What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.
2 other views from Max Jacob
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
9 sayings from George Sand
Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.
4 other views from Meir Kahane
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
18 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts 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 wisdom & wit from Maggie Kuhn
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
4 other sayings 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 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
10 thoughts from Luc de Clapiers
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
2 quotes from Walter Martin
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
9 other thoughts 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 sayings from Samuel Johnson
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
5 more quotes from Cesare Pavese
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
90 wisdom & wit from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
26 quotes from Theodor Adorno
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
90 other 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 more quotes from Cesare Pavese
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
4 other 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 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
24 quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
33 more sayings 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 other quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.
2 sayings from Moshe Sharett
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
28 more quotes from Napoleon Hill
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
100 other quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
103 other quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.
2 more 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 views 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 thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi
With a houseful of kids you give each other strength.
5 quotes from Michael Landon
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
30 quotes 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 other 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 other quotes 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 other sayings 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 sayings from Oliver Goldsmith
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
74 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 sayings 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 views 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 thoughts 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 wisdom & wit 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 views from Felix Frankfurter
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
3 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 quotes from William Shenstone
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
10 more quotes 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 thoughts 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 thoughts from Anna Freud
It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
14 wisdom & wit from Joseph Conrad
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
4 more quotes from Louis Pasteur
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
19 more views 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 wisdom & wit from Max Lerner
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
23 quotes from Henry Miller
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
75 more quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
45 more views 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 other quotes from Orison Swett Marden
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
10 other quotes from Charles de Secondat
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
4 wisdom & wit from William Gurnall
In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
11 more quotes from Robert E. Lee
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
67 quotes 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 thoughts from Khalil Gibran
Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.
30 thoughts 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 quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt
Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
2 more views 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 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from Everett Dirksen
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
10 quotes from Charles Lamb
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
45 more quotes from John Ruskin
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
13 more sayings from Francois Rabelais
I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
3 wisdom & wit from Georg Brandes
I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.
6 quotes from Huey Newton
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
8 more thoughts from James Dean
People do not lack strength they lack will.
73 more quotes 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 views from Thomas Paine
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
45 thoughts from John Ruskin
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
31 views from Thomas Paine
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
26 sayings from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
26 other quotes 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 quotes 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 quotes 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 quotes 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 thoughts from Lawrence Welk
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
8 more wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Albert Einstein
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.
18 thoughts from Jean Paul
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
17 wisdom & wit from Leo Buscaglia
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
3 thoughts from Richard L. Evans
The virtue of paganism was strength the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
5 thoughts from Augustus Hare
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
3 other views from Cesar Chavez