strength
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 quotes from Emmet Fox
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
17 thoughts from Calvin Coolidge
I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
10 other wisdom & wit from Arthur Ashe
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible not to run away.
13 views from Dag Hammarskjold
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
15 views 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 more 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 more views from Ernest Hemingway
What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.
2 quotes from Max Jacob
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
9 wisdom & wit from George Sand
Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.
4 views 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 wisdom & wit 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 more sayings from Maggie Kuhn
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
4 thoughts 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 quotes from Luc de Clapiers
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
2 views from Walter Martin
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
9 wisdom & wit from Elizabeth I
Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
3 thoughts 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 more 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 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts 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 views from Mahatma Gandhi
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
24 other sayings from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
33 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 thoughts from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.
2 more thoughts from Moshe Sharett
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
28 views from Napoleon Hill
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
103 thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche
The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.
2 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
With a houseful of kids you give each other strength.
5 views from Michael Landon
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
30 wisdom & wit from Eleanor Roosevelt
Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
30 views from Eleanor Roosevelt
You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
13 views 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 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 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Oliver Goldsmith
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
74 other quotes 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 wisdom & wit from James Allen
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
14 views from Laurence Sterne
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
18 other quotes from Baruch Spinoza
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
13 views from Amos Bronson Alcott
The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
3 more quotes from Benjamin Banneker
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
4 other quotes from Jacques Maritain
The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
7 other 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 quotes from Felix Frankfurter
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
3 quotes 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 sayings from William Shenstone
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 more views 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 quotes from Anna Freud
It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
14 other 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 quotes from Louis Pasteur
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
19 quotes 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 quotes 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 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 quotes from Orison Swett Marden
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
10 quotes from Charles de Secondat
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
4 sayings from William Gurnall
In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
11 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 sayings from Albert Schweitzer
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.
56 views from Khalil Gibran
Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.
30 more quotes from Charles Caleb Colton
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
12 thoughts from Thomas Merton
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
24 more 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 quotes from Lawrence G. Lovasik
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
23 sayings from Paul Cezanne
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
9 quotes 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 other quotes 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 other thoughts from John Ruskin
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
13 more quotes from Francois Rabelais
I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
3 sayings 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 quotes from James Dean
People do not lack strength they lack will.
73 other views 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 thoughts 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 quotes from John Ruskin
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
31 more quotes from Thomas Paine
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
26 other views from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
26 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 other 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 more 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 sayings 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 other 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 wisdom & wit from Lawrence Welk
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
8 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 more quotes from Jean Paul
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
17 quotes from Leo Buscaglia
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
3 other 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 other views 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 other 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 views from George Henry Lewes
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
4 views 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 views 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 wisdom & wit 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 other thoughts from David Brainerd
Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
2 other quotes from John Lothrop Motley
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
81 views from William Shakespeare
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
7 thoughts from Corrie Ten Boom
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
41 quotes from Marcus Aurelius
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
22 thoughts 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 other 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 quotes from Sigmund Freud
Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
3 views from Ho Chi Minh
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
135 quotes 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 quotes from Norman Vincent Peale
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
13 more thoughts from James M. Barrie
The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
22 more sayings from Robert Browning
The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.
2 quotes from Richard J. Daley
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
135 other views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
135 quotes 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 sayings from John Cheever
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
9 sayings from Charles Spurgeon
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
57 quotes from Blaise Pascal
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
31 other thoughts from Helen Keller
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
58 more sayings from Henry Ward Beecher
He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
4 other views from Ben Jonson
I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.
3 more thoughts from Ruth Benedict
I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.
3 sayings from Ruth Benedict
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
59 other 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 other views from Lillian Hellman
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
26 other sayings from Frank Lloyd Wright
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
14 quotes from Jean Anouilh
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
21 quotes from Mignon McLaughlin
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
5 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 more views from Vince Lombardi
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
57 more thoughts from Blaise Pascal
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
47 quotes from George Orwell