Strength Quotes
Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.
Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.
From my father's side I got the strength, the mental toughness, the heart, the courage.
He was gentle, like a man mindful of his own strength. In my dreams I beheld the kings of the earth standing in awe in His presence.
Every moment is an invitation to live out of your weakness or to live out of your strength.
Al was cruel, vindictive, angry, elegant, powerful. He gave me strength, he gave me wisdom, not only about magic, but about myself. He was a lot like Trent, only harsher around the edges.
Right now, it's just a matter of getting my strength and endurance back. So far, no setbacks.
One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.
She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.
There are also half bricks. As the bricks are always laid so as to break joints, this lends strength and a not unattractive appearance to both sides of such walls.
One evil receives strength from another. In the same way, good deeds also sprout one from another, and the one in whom they are found grows larger.
I like fighting at the higher weight. That extra seven pounds helps because of energy, strength and I can focus more throughout the training camp, without having to put extra time into making weight.
You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.
It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
In drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
Southern food derives its strength from many cultures. It's a melding of food cultures from Native Americans, enslaved African-Americans, and Europeans.
For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.
The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.
Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.
Our intuitions, as humans, aren't always very good. Changes that happen really suddenly, on the strength of the most minor of input, can be deeply confusing.
I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.
The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.
To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.
I dance but I also work out. I run, do strength training... you name it. I've got to!
When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.
If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.
Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.
This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.
Ignorance makes for weakness and fear; knowledge gives strength and confidence. Nothing surprises an intellect that knows all things with a sense of discrimination.
The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.
I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.
Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so.
A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.
When we talk about God, I think what most of us mean is some greater thing, some higher power that can help us access our own strength or give us strength.
I am not yet born; O fill me With strength against those who would freeze my humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with one face, a thing
It takes more strength to cry, admit defeat. I have truth on my side, you only have deceit.
We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.
In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.
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.
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.