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.'
~By Jimmy Carter ~
Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes.
~By Chris Chocola ~
That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.
~By Lindsey Buckingham ~
America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.
~By Bill Frist ~
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
~By Pythagoras ~
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.
~By William Temple ~
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 ~
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.
~By Elvis Costello ~
The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.
~By Bernard Ebbers ~
The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
~By Ninon de Lenclos ~
'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.
~By James Sinegal ~
I think that one of the strengths of Cop Shoot Cop lay in the different, and at times, clashing personalities, Ideally, I want to have both ways of working in my life.
~By Jim Coleman ~
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.
~By W. E. B. Du Bois ~
Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.
~By Gerhard Schroder ~
I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.
~By Evita Peron ~
I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
~By Josephine Baker ~
The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
~By Arthur Miller ~
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.
~By John Forsythe ~
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
~By Corrie Ten Boom ~
Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
~By Drew Barrymore ~
To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
~By Arthur Holly Compton ~
Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.
~By Lisa Murkowski ~
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 ~
By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.
~By Christopher Dodd ~
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
~By Beatrice Potter Webb ~
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 ~
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
~By Robert Peel ~
I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.
~By Alison Lohman ~
There's no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment.
~By Steven Gerrard ~
I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction.
~By Nick Lampson ~
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
~By Paul Brunton ~
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.
~By Jerome S. Bruner ~
We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements.
~By Anna Lindh ~
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 ~
Men and women have strengths that complement each other.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
I like form and shape and strength in pictures.
~By Herb Ritts ~
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
~By Walter Scott ~
Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.
~By David Blunkett ~
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
~By John W. Gardner ~
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.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
~By Saint Francis de Sales ~
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
~By John Keats ~
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 ~
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
~By Lewis Carroll ~
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
~By Henry Drummond ~
Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.
~By Bill Owens ~
For all of us who have been involved in the recovery efforts to bring back and strengthen wild salmon runs, we fear that this change in policy could lead to further declines in these wild stocks.
~By Norm Dicks ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal.
~By Mitch McConnell ~
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 ~
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
~By Barbra Streisand ~
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 ~
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
~By Black Elk ~
Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less; but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart, and with the whole soul; with all his strength and with all his will.
~By Max Muller ~
He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
~By Ben Jonson ~
The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.
~By Robert Teeter ~
I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.
~By Shania Twain ~
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
~By Charles Kingsley ~
When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from.
~By Elvis Stojko ~
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
~By Harold Bloom ~
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.
~By Gregory Harrison ~
Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.
~By Charlotte Bunch ~
I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
~By Anna Quindlen ~
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.
~By Geraldine Ferraro ~
Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
~By Abdul Kalam ~
There are plenty of opportunities for common grounds that we need to explore and strengthen. The Hispanic community has a strong affinity for our relationship with Israel.
~By Robert Menendez ~
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 ~
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it's a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month's time, so it's going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I'm good to go so far.
~By Picabo Street ~
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
~By Winston Churchill ~
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.
~By Mark E. Smith ~
I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.
~By Jim Brown ~
It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.
~By Paul von Hindenburg ~
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 ~
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
~By Mother Teresa ~
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 ~
I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
~By Georg Brandes ~
Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.
~By Hassanal Bolkiah ~
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
~By Walter Jon Williams ~
As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.
~By Melissa Bean ~
I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.
~By Melissa Manchester ~
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
~By Francis Quarles ~
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
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