Strength Quotations

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

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

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

To disarm the people is the best and most effectual Way to enslave them.

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

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.

The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.

My family is my strength and my weakness.

Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women - the way that he loves.

Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

When I was younger, I did not have the strength to jump well enough, but over the years I have gained that, worked on it. But the sensibility you simply have to have.

I grew up in a strong faith-based family. I think I have selected to return to those roots for strength, for my family, for myself and to protect our children and to forgive others and move on and face forward.

I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed very quickly and very young, all succumbing to a combination of illness and disease and the lack of strength to fight off both.

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.

The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't.

The fact that we're going through a crisis is an opportunity for Europe to be more coordinated and more integrated. We're actually talking about a European Monetary Fund or euro bonds, about guarantees for countries, about economic governance in the European Union. That shows the strength of Europe.

Anyone can wear my dresses. They will look good on any figure, no matter what shape you are. I want to celebrate a woman's inner strength, to inspire real women and make them feel confident and beautiful.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.

The darkest experiences in a human being's life allow that person to either go deeper and stay depressed or get the strength to stand up stronger than ever, and that's my case.

If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals.

'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

I think what initially attracts many kids to trains are the 'cool' things: strength, size, agency, speed. But trains also operate within a world of systems, schedules, codes, and fine distinctions. Enter the geeks. What I personally love most about trains is that they are transporting, that they take us places - literally and otherwise.

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

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

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

I threw my best to every hitter I faced, and I found I had the strength to go all the way.

If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In the end, it depends on the strength of ideas in each piece.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

Now, when you get a viral infection, what normally happens is it takes days or weeks for your body to fight back at full strength, and that might be too late. When you're pre-immunized, what happens is you have forces in your body pre-trained to recognize and defeat specific foes. So that's really how vaccines work.

The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.

Don't worry about not fitting in. The things that make people think you're weird are what makes you you, and therefore your greatest strength.

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.

I'm in love with red. I think it's such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. It's power, there's no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don't. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. They're all magic.

In all probability, when the 1919 series is over, a diagnosis of it will show that the final result was brought about by some unusual situation or freak happening that was given no consideration when the relative strength of the two clubs was considered.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

When we set our hearts upon the things of this world and fail to be strictly honest with the Lord, we do not grow in the light and power and strength of the gospel as we otherwise would do.

Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.