Best 2623 quotes in «strength quotes» category

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

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'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Leverage your uniqueness.

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.

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

My strength is my weakness and weakness is my strength

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

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

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

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

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

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.

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

Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.

Since the real purpose of meditation is to increase our capacity to help others, taking time each day to meditate is not selfish. We have to manage our time and energy in such a way that we can be of maximum benefit to others, and to do this we need time alone to recover our strength, collect our thoughts, and see things in perspective

So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

So let it be in God's own might We gird us for the coming fight, And, strong in Him whose cause is ours In conflict with unholy powers, We grasp the weapons he has given,-- The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.