Strength Quotes - page 4

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit. (Andrei Sakharov)
What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.
Max Jacob
Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy.
Nicole Scherzinger
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.
Christian Lous Lange
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
Billy Graham
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
Judith Viorst
I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.
Etty Hillesum
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
Pythagoras
Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life. (Gregory Peck)
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
Bill Clinton
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
Branch Rickey
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
Dag Hammarskjöld
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
Felix Frankfurter
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus Aurelius
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Thomas Carlyle
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Theodor Adorno
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. (Henry Ward Beecher)
In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
Robert E. Lee
That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
But one cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.
Jean Anouilh
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
Samuel Johnson