Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.
~By Adele Faber ~
When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.
~By Patricia Neal ~
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
~By Lawrence Clark Powell ~
God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
~By Richard Holloway ~
If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength.
~By Steve Albini ~
For those of us who have lived abroad and seen our nation in a highly competitive 21st century, and kind of see where this world is going - unless we are able to strengthen our core, we're going to see the end of the American century. And that is totally unacceptable.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~
I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
~By Bainbridge Colby ~
You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.
~By David Strathairn ~
One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development.
~By Frank Murkowski ~
If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.
~By Gijs de Vries ~
My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
My family is my strength and my weakness.
~By Aishwarya Rai ~
I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.
~By Steven Soderbergh ~
I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
~By Robert Browning ~
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
~By William J. Clinton ~
It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.
~By Eleanor Clift ~
The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.
~By Richard J. Daley ~
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
I'm constantly watching people. Watching their strengths and weaknesses. I find myself going into theater less and less, let alone horror. I gave that up when I was seven or eight years old.
~By Jonathan Frid ~
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
~By Ben Jonson ~
Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
~By Andrei Sakharov ~
The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.
~By Franz Kafka ~
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
~By Francis Jeffrey ~
I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
~By Miriam Makeba ~
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
~By Jean Paul ~
Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
~By Richard E. Byrd ~
You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.
~By Jack LaLanne ~
Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.
~By Mitt Romney ~
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
~By Walter Martin ~
Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.
~By Chris Chocola ~
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.
~By Scott Hamilton ~
Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.
~By John Shimkus ~
The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together.
~By Ben Edwards ~
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
~By Francois Rabelais ~
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.
~By Merlin Olsen ~
We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
~By Sextus Propertius ~
Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
~By Drew Barrymore ~
Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
~By Vladimir Putin ~
I think this is one of the greatest strengths of this school. Not only do the students go on to achieve great milestones in their own lives, they never forget their roots and the school that gave them the chance they needed to improve their lives and their families' lives.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
~By Plato ~
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
~By David Hume ~
I have the strength to endure it all.
~By Moshe Dayan ~
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
~By John Ruskin ~
We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. America's lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.
~By Ben Nelson ~
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
~By John Muir ~
Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
~By Alfred Jarry ~
Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
~By Michel Foucault ~
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.
~By Ruth Benedict ~
It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.
~By Aime Cesaire ~
Our passion is our strength.
~By Billie Joe Armstrong ~
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
~By Robert South ~
Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
~By John Beecher ~
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
~By Henry Drummond ~
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
~By Robert Kiyosaki ~
The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
~By Robert Browning Hamilton ~
Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.
~By William Moulton Marston ~
We should seek a system that provides outlets for those skills and talents so that everyone can find a way to work and serve in a manner that best suits the strengths of each individual.
~By Lee R. Raymond ~
Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
~By Martin Amis ~
I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.
~By Kurt Huber ~
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
~By Thomas Paine ~
Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.
~By Lech Walesa ~
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
~By Peter Drucker ~
Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.
~By Robert Redford ~
I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.
~By Carry Nation ~
My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.
~By Michael Eisner ~
I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.
~By Dudley Moore ~
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
~By William Feather ~
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.
~By Lydia Sigourney ~
But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.
~By Anna Letitia Barbauld ~
Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team.
~By Laurent Jalabert ~
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
~By Francis Quarles ~
There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.
~By John Knowles ~
The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.
~By George W. Bush ~
Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.
~By William Cavendish ~
Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims.
~By Gijs de Vries ~
My strength is my enthusiasm.
~By Placido Domingo ~
'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
~By Henry Ellis ~
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
~By Mattie Stepanek ~
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
~By Elizabeth I ~
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.
~By William Hazlitt ~
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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