Strength Quotes - page 9

My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders. (Miguel Indurain)
Everything that I have worked for, everything that I have hoped for, everything that I have believed in during my public life, has crashed into ruins. There is only one thing left for me to do; that is, to devote what strength and powers I have to forwarding the victory of the cause for which we have to sacrifice so much. I cannot tell what part I may be allowed to play myself; I trust I may live to see the day when Hitlerism has been destroyed and a liberated Europe has been re-established. View quote
Neville Chamberlain
The Russians are liars – you can't trust them. At Potsdam they agreed to everything and broke their word. It's too bad the second world power is like this, but that's the way it is, and we must keep our strength. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Good actions give strength to ourselves, and inspire good actions in others. View quote
Samuel Smiles
Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. View quote
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. View quote
Marquis de Sade
Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and the happiness of others. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. View quote
Thomas Paine
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary. View quote
Maimonides
The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g., some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind... they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them. (Maimonides)
Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength. View quote
George Henry Lewes
Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself. View quote
Paulo Coelho
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him. View quote
François Rabelais
War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war. View quote
François Rabelais
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains. View quote
François Rabelais
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself. View quote
George Eliot
There is something strangely winning to most women in that offer of the firm arm the help is not wanted physically at that moment, but the sense of help, the presence of strength that is outside them and yet theirs, meets a continual want of the imagination. View quote
George Eliot
A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away. (Thomas Hardy)
The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today. View quote
Max Lucado
Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support the greater it curtails human freedom. View quote
William O. Douglas
A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths. View quote
Greg Walden
The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react. View quote
Erwin Rommel