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 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
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
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 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
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
– John F. Kennedy
Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
– Henry Miller
Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.
– Friedrich Nietzche
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
– Dag Hammarskjld
