Strength Quotes - page 12

Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others. (Tacitus)
We must make this campaign an exceedingly active one. Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength. A defensive campaign can only be made successful by taking the aggressive at the proper time. Napoleon never waited for his adversary to become fully prepared, but struck him the first blow. View quote
Stonewall Jackson
Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
The holy Cross goes forward; it brings joy and consolation to every quarter where Christians live; and these God-fearing people, elated, stand in their doorways and greet it reverently, the strength, the salvation of the universe, the Cross. View quote
Constantine P. Cavafy
She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men - not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, the strength of their soul, their compassion, and - ah, this above all - their conversation. View quote
Orson Scott Card
It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others. View quote
Orson Scott Card
There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
The U. S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military. View quote
Chester W. Nimitz
Hope of consciousness is strength Hope of feelings is slavery Hope of body is disease. View quote
G. I. Gurdjieff
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. View quote
Anaïs Nin
A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness ... (David Gemmell)
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is. View quote
Thomas à Kempis
I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country. View quote
Lindsey Graham
Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection. View quote
André Maurois
Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death. View quote
André Maurois
Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form,grace, strength, compactness, and the harness and brilliance of a diamond. View quote
Patañjali
Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, ... It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to. View quote
Jodi Picoult
The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water, So men's height is just as great as their inner strength. View quote
Thiruvalluvar
When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze. View quote
Cassandra Clare
I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong. View quote
Vita Sackville-West
In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.' (Jimmy Carter)
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. View quote
Corrie Ten Boom
Intellect is not sexed;... strength of mind is not sexed; and ... our views about the duties of men and the duties of women, the sphere of man and the sphere of woman, are mere arbitrary opinions, differing in different ages and countries, and dependent solely on the will and judgment of erring mortals. View quote
Sarah Grimké
Freud says, "Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling.” Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant. View quote
Camille Paglia
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. View quote
Karen Armstrong