Best 2623 quotes in «strength quotes» category

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.

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

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

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

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

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

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?

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

My strength is my weakness and weakness is my strength

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness

Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it.

Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.

That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.

The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

The most important thing is to be strong. With strength, one can conquer others, and to conquer others gives one virtue.