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 ~
If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals.
~By Robert Conklin ~
We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.
~By Caroline Corr ~
Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.
~By Henry Villard ~
On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.
~By Naomi Watts ~
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.
~By Allen West ~
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.
~By William Godwin ~
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.
~By Matthew Henry ~
Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength.
~By Jane Byrne ~
The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.
~By James Cash Penney ~
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
~By Jean Anouilh ~
I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.
~By Archibald Cox ~
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
~By Charles de Secondat ~
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 ~
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
~By Cesar Chavez ~
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
~By Christopher Reeve ~
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 ~
Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
~By Mattie Stepanek ~
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
~By Barbara Bush ~
I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.
~By Louis MacNeice ~
The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.
~By Andy Stern ~
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
~By Plato ~
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
~By Francis Jeffrey ~
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
~By Lao Tzu ~
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
~By Anais Nin ~
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
~By William J. Clinton ~
Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.
~By Robert Reich ~
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
~By Cesare Pavese ~
I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.
~By Cindy Sheehan ~
There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
~By Fay Wray ~
Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
~By Charles Lamb ~
The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.
~By Albert Bushnell Hart ~
Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education.
~By Tipper Gore ~
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 ~
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
~By Anna Freud ~
Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us.
~By Larry Summers ~
Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
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.
~By Francois Rabelais ~
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
~By Maya Angelou ~
We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today.
~By Herb Kohl ~
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
~By Phil Jackson ~
Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
~By John Beecher ~
I give myself strength by staying away from any music.
~By Alannah Myles ~
Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform.
~By Dave Reichert ~
The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.
~By Paul Harris ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.
~By David Brainerd ~
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 ~
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
~By Audre Lorde ~
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
~By Mother Teresa ~
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
~By William Feather ~
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
~By Peter Drucker ~
I like form and shape and strength in pictures.
~By Herb Ritts ~
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'
~By Mitch Daniels ~
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.
~By Black Elk ~
Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.
~By Gerhard Schroder ~
We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to reject privatization schemes and work together to strengthen Social Security.
~By Debbie Stabenow ~
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 ~
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
~By George Eliot ~
And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.
~By Alison Bechdel ~
The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
~By Ninon de Lenclos ~
With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.
~By Mark Morris ~
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
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 ~
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
~By Ossie Davis ~
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 ~
You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.
~By Evan Parker ~
The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.
~By Mark Udall ~
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
~By Ralph Cudworth ~
But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.
~By Garry Shandling ~
Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.
~By David Blunkett ~
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
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 ~
Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
~By Li Ka Shing ~
Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.
~By Steve Bartlett ~
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