Best 2623 quotes in «strength quotes» category

I stand by this man (President George W. Bush). I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers and rubble and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message, that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound.. with the most powerfully staged photo ops in the world.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

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.

I think that when you look at the great politicians, the two greatest in my view were George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, they certainly had character traits. You also know Abraham Lincoln overcame severe depression problems that he had when he was younger, which gave him the strength and the character later on.

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

It is a strength of character to acknowledge our failings and our strong points, and it is a weakness of character not to remain in harmony with both the good and the bad that is within us.

I think to deal with Putin, you need to deal from strength. He's a bully, you enable bad behavior when you're nuanced with a guy like that.

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

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

It's easier to be ignorant and say I don't know about the problem. But once you know, once you've seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together as a team, we can be unstoppable.

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.

It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.

I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support a hydrogen economy.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.

Leverage your uniqueness.

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.

Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones.

Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them

Love is the biggest eraser there is. Love erases even the deepest imprinting because love goes deeper then anything. If you childhood imprinting was very strong, and you keep saying: "It's their fault. I can't change," you stay stuck.

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

Must I remind you that a chain is no stronger than its weakest link?

My strength is my weakness and weakness is my strength

My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

One of the weaknesses of Indian industry is that in many areas.. like consumer goods.. it is very fragmented. Individually, the companies might not be able to survive. What is needed is a consortium of like companies in one industry, presenting a strong front to the multinationals. The Swiss watch industry did this.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Only our own strength, a strong conservative party, can prevent Red-Red-Green from taking power at the federal level in 2017.

Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical.

Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to . . . dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

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

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal.

Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.

Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking.