Strength Quotes - page 11

... this dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth. (Jane Addams)
In innocence there is no strength against evil,” said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. "But there is strength in it for good. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength will dissipate. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
If you feel proud, let it be in the thought that you are the servant of God, the son of God. Great men have the nature of a child. They are always a child before Him; so they are free from pride. All their strength is of God and not their own. It belongs to Him and comes from Him. View quote
Ramakrishna
I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective. View quote
Gloria Estefan
We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds. But it was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying... It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness. View quote
Moshe Dayan
My greatest strength is the love for my people, my greatest weakness is that I love them too much. View quote
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
The deeper we look, the more we shall be convinced that the one thing wanting, which we must strive to acquire before all others, is strength - strength physical, strength mental, strength moral, but above all strength spiritual which is the one inexhaustible and imperishable source of all the others. If we have strength everything else will be added to us easily and naturally. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
When [Nelson Mandela] was in prison I admired him for his moral strength... Of his period in power I can see few results. Apartheid no longer exists, at least to all appearances, but no one understands what the new government in South Africa is doing. View quote
Mengistu Haile Mariam
Why do you lack the strength to escape the obligation to breathe? (Emil Cioran)
We cannot bank our hopes on possibilities. We must put our trust in ourselves, in our capabilities and efforts and strength and preparations not only for our success but even to avoid our own defeat. View quote
Aung San
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. View quote
Maya Angelou
There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength. View quote
Paul Bourget
I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength. View quote
Woody Harrelson
I have the ability to build myself up or break myself down. I stay positive. Strength comes from within. View quote
Hayley Williams
It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind. View quote
Morrissey
America is my home - I believe in her promise and I will do what I can to secure that promise for future generations of our children. America is great - not because of our military might or our economic strength - but because of the greatness of Americans, and I welcome the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder, side by side with all of you to preserve our heritage rich in "liberty and justice for all." View quote
Alberto Gonzales
Strange is the vigour in a brave man's soul. The strength of his spirit and his irresistible power, the greatness of his heart and the height of his condition, his mighty confidence and contempt of danger, his true security and repose in himself, his liberty to dare and do what he pleaseth, his alacrity in the midst of fears, his invincible temper, are advantages which make him master of fortune. View quote
Thomas Traherne
The customs of that most criminal nation have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors. View quote
Seneca
Greece expects you not merely to die for her, for that is little, indeed; she expects you to conquer. That is why each one of you, even in dying, should be possessed by one thought alone – how to conserve your strength to the last so that those who survive may conquer. And you will conquer, I am more than sure of this. (Eleftherios Venizelos)
Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before you; and when your strength begins to fail, and your spirits are well nigh exhausted, let the animating view rekindle your resolution, and call forth in renewed vigour the fainting energies of your soul. View quote
William Wilberforce
... To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget. ... View quote
Arundhati Roy
The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension - working strength - is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces. View quote
Hans Hofmann
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. View quote
Abraham Joshua Heschel