Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marlo Thomas

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

May Sarton

It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.

May Sarton

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

Maurice Blanchot

The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.

The more participants we have, the better we can be. I think we can have a real strength in numbers.

Rod Stewart

There was nothing there. No strength. I was petrified. I was scared. This was my livelihood.

Susan Sarandon

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

Mother Teresa

Joy is strength- Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with Joy.

Mother Teresa

We don't need bombs and guns to destroy, to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.

Mother Teresa

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

Rachel Carson

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Queen Latifah

You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care about and really want to protect. Would you let someone take advantage of that person? Would you let someone use that person you really care about? Or would you speak up for them? If it was someone else you care about, you'd say something. I know you would. Okay, now put yourself back in that body. That person is you. Stand up and tell 'em, "Enough!

Placido Domingo

My strength is my enthusiasm.

Tecumseh

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cunning is strength withheld.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

Sophocles

The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

Sophocles

Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.

Starhawk

Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.

Sophie Swetchine

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

Marcus Aurelius

Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.

Marcus Aurelius

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

Marcus Aurelius

Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.

Sharon Osbourne

When you get pushed down, you pick yourself up and move on. I've never been a victim.

Swami Vivekananda

Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.

Swami Vivekananda

And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.

Swami Vivekananda

This is the only way to reach the goal, to tell ourselves, and to tell everybody else, that we are divine. And as we go on repeating this, strength comes. He who falters at first will get stronger and stronger, and the voice will increase in volume until the truth takes possession of our hearts, and courses through our veins, and permeates our bodies.

Swami Vivekananda

I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary.

Swami Vivekananda

Say to your own minds, "I am He, I am He". Let it ring day and night in your minds like a song, and at the point of death declare : "I am He". That is truth; the infinite strength of the world is yours.

Swami Vivekananda

Men are taught from childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are all glorious children of immortality, even those who are the weakest in manifestation.