Strength Quotes

One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate the cultural strength of African peoples.

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

Do not seek Adolf Hitler with your mind. You will find him through the strength of your hearts.

Smile doesn't mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you're strong.

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.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

Always assume that your opponent is going to be bigger, stronger and faster than you; so that you learn to rely on technique, timing and leverage rather than brute strength

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.

The strength of walls depends on the courage of those who guard them.

I know you feel worn and tired. I know you're tired of failing. Rest, but don't stop. You can do this. You got this. Not because you're strong, but because He's your strength.

Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

My greatest strength is the love for my people, my greatest weakness is that I love them too much.

Having faith does not mean having no difficulties, but having the strength to face them, knowing we are not alone.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

True strength is not always shown through victory. Stand up, try again and display strength of heart.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

It is great to be faced with the impossible, for nothing is impossible if one is meant to do it. Wisdom will be given, and strength. When the Lord leads, He always strengthens.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Your fragility is also your strength.

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.

Determination is the strength needed to succeed.

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility

A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.

Love - Truth-seeking The strength of Truth lies in Love and the strength of Love lies in Truth.

Among the major tasks before us none is of greater importance for our strength and stability than the task of building up the unity and solidarity of our people.

Cast yourself into the arms of God and be very sure that if he wants anything of you, He will fit you for the work and give you strength.

War makes extremely heavy demands on the soldier's strength and nerves. For this reason, make heavy demands on your men in peacetime exercises.

The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.

Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.

I believe now, as I alway have, that America's strength is in 'We the People.'

Survival is your strength not your shame.