.... You ask, What is our policy? I will say; "It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy." You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
– Sir Winston Churchill, 1940, in his first address as the newly appointed Prime Minister.
A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
– Marjorie Holmes
A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
– Thomas Carlyle
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.
– Anthony Walton
At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slainThen, Prince You should have fear'd, what now you feelAchilles absent was Achilles stillYet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid.
– Homer
Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.
– Maxims of Ptahhotep
Be entirely tolerant or not at all follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.
– Heinrich Heine
Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.
Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage.
– Lao Tzu
Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
– Vince Lombardi
By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom.
– Omar Khayyam
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
– Jackie Mason
Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.
– Lao-Tzu
Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential.
– Black Elk
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
– Frances Rodman
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
– Charles Lamb
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.
– William Cullen Bryant
Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
– Arab Proverb
Every man needs his Siren to check his courage and strength when he hears her song in his travels through the unknown.
– Dejan Stojanovic
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
– Hasidic Saying
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
– Helen Keller, "The World at Her Fingertips" by Joan Dash
Faith is the strength that keeps you moving forward for better day
– The Omani Shed
