If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength.
– La Rochefoucauld
If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness.
– Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
– Hal Borland
If you're an ant, and you're walking along across the top of a cup of pudding, you probably have no idea that the only thing between you and disaster is the strength of that pudding skin.
If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
– French Proverb
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.
– James Allen
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins--not through strength but by perseverance.
– H. Jackson Browne
In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.
– George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
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.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
Inflation is a force of pressure. If the socioeconomic system of a country is open and democratic, the pressure will dissipate via elections and peaceful change of government. On the other hand, if the system is closed, it might be able to contain the pressure for a while, but the pressure will continue to build up and at a certain point it will exceed the strength of the system causing it to crack. Rulers who learn from history and create a socioeconomic system that is open will achieve stability and continuity. Those who fight against these socioeconomic forces may win some battles in the short term, but they will lose the war.
– Med Jones
Inquisitiveness and strength make me want to rise above my valley-bound brothers. I must reach the summit to see the truth.
– Delores Seats
Invincibility lies in the defense the possibility of victory in the attack. One defends when his strength is inadequate he attacks when it is abundant.
– Sun-tzu
It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers.
– John P. Loughrane
It is absolutely impossible to be a rich Christian " Because he does not follow Jesus.Jesus answered, Mark 12:30 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
– Sunny Mathew Cheruthanniyil
It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.
– Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03-20-05
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
– Simone de Beauvoir
It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
– Homer
It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
– Lillian Hellman
It was a world which granted privileges to some and imposed prohibitions on others...Endowed with strength and eager to learn, one had to drag himself in a narrow prison cell when he could see an open field, a vast horizon in the distance; when he could feel the beatings of a heart; and when he believed himself entitled to enjoy the beauty of a dream.
– Dr. Jose P. Rizal
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
– Mother Theresa
Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
– Lao Tzu
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
– John W. Gardner
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
– Louis Pasteur
Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that progress gain in strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it.
– Josiah Gilbert Holland
