Best 2623 quotes in «strength quotes» category

Confidence comes from victory, but strength comes from the struggle.

Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.

Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.

Find your own 'sweet spot'. Take your talents and enjoy them, share them, expand them.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. Think of the times when you rose above your average level of performance and carried out an idea or a dream or a desire for which you had deeply longed. Hang these pictures on the walls of your mind and look at them as you travel the roadway of life.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.

I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.

If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.

If you know your strength it never becomes a weakness. If the market knows your strength then it becomes a weakness.

I am aware of the talent I was gifted and had to execute against it. It is just being very self aware and betting on your best strength.

I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and insights of the Black woman.

If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal" and "criminal," for, in the strength to set standards, resides the strength to maintain control.

If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.

I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn't popular to talk about it in some circles today. I'm not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I'm talking about a strong, demanding love.

In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

I'm just going to let people watch whatever little movie they think our lives are and go for it.

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.

In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths.

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

I paint a tree - I think of how the roots go deep, deep into the earth. How the tree grows year by year toward the sky. How it stands with the winds.

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 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.

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.

In union there is strength.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.