Strength Quotes - page 15

We are one another's strength. (T. B. Joshua)
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance. View quote
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. View quote
George Sand
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. View quote
Max Lerner
Strength and success- they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. View quote
John Steinbeck
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage. View quote
Thucydides
The Jew is contrary to our being. ... He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our customs rotten, and polluted the morale. View quote
Joseph Goebbels
Every day before supper and before we went to services on Sundays my grandmother would read the Bible to me, and my grandfather would pray. We even had devotions before going to pick cotton in the fields. Prayer and the Bible, became a part of my everyday thoughts and beliefs. I learned to put my trust in God and to seek Him as my strength. View quote
Rosa Parks
For their own good, vegetarians should never be allowed near fine beers and ales. It will only make them loud and belligerent, and they lack the physical strength and aggressive nature to back up any drunken assertions. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse? (Ivan Turgenev)
Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself. View quote
Kevin Rudd
I am a Republican because I believe in the constitution, strength in national defense, limited government, individual freedom, and personal responsibility as the concrete foundation for American government. They reinforce the resolve that the United States is the greatest country in the world and we can all be eternally grateful to our founding fathers for the beautiful legacy they left us today. View quote
Martha Raye
Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 - a whole community saying grace - made me expect the worst. View quote
Pauline Kael
What acquaintance have the people at large with the arena of political rectitude, with the connections of kingdoms, the resources of national strength, the abilities of ministers, or even with their own dispositions?...I pay no regard whatever to the voice of the people: it is their duty to do what is proper, without considering what may be agreeable. View quote
Charles James Fox
The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well-ordered homes of the people. View quote
Lydia Sigourney
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience. View quote
Lech Wałęsa
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him. View quote
Denis Diderot
Give, and thou shalt receive. Give thoughts of cheer,Of courage and success, to friend and stranger.And from a thousand sources, far and near,Strength will be sent thee in thy hour of danger. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
How easy it is for men to be swollen with admiration of their own strength and glory, and to be lifted up so high as to lose sight both of the ground whence they rose, and the hand that advanced them. (Joseph Hall)
Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race! View quote
William Cullen Bryant
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
There is a comfort in the strength of love Twill make a thing endurable, which else Would overset the brain, or break the heart. View quote
William Wordsworth
He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive. View quote
Jack London