Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

Tony Blair

a tribute to the strength of our relationship.

Thomas Fuller

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Mike Montgomery

We just got to do it with this group. Find out what our strengths are.

The strength of Warrack has always been its outpatient care. We want to play to our strengths.

The strength of our team has been our defense.

The strength is there, but I don't know about the endurance.

Mike Fisher

The strength is just not there and I don't really have anything on my shot,

Richelle Mead

I used to think you were weak and just didn't fight back ... but now, honestly, I think you're actually pretty tough. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to not complain and lash out.

Rebecca West

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Tryon Edwards

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.

P. C. Cast

Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.

Meher Baba

Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.

Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall . . . everything.

Martin Buber

Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.

Pierre Bonnard

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

Pierre de Coubertin

The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence.

Pope Francis

May all people here find inspiration and strength to build a future of reconciliation, justice and peace for all the children of this beloved land.

Paulo Coelho

And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.

Phillips Brooks

You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally and spiritually strong, whose strength did not come to him in struggle. There is no exception anywhere. Every true strength is gained in struggle.

Phillips Brooks

O, do not pray for easy lives...

Victor Hugo

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

Victor Hugo

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

Robert Frost

States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.

Richard E. Byrd

There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Thucydides

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

Thomas Paine

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

Thomas Paine

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Paine

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Vita Sackville-West

I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.