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 ~
You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.
~By Glenn Tipton ~
I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'
~By Ricky Williams ~
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
~By Henry Drummond ~
I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.
~By Cecil Taylor ~
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
~By John W. Gardner ~
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 ~
Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
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 ~
The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
~By Garrett Fort ~
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
~By John Ruskin ~
Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.
~By Stephen Lewis ~
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
~By Pythagoras ~
I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me.
~By Susan Smith ~
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 ~
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 ~
It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth.
~By Dennis Banks ~
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 ~
They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.
~By Diana Ross ~
Well, the economic recovery was successful even though the Democrats opposed the reforms every step of the way. And it is clear the Democrats have no clear plan to strengthen our economy, as Republicans do.
~By Todd Tiahrt ~
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.
~By Adam Schiff ~
Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.
~By Lindsey Graham ~
The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.
~By William Blackstone ~
I want to exude strength and intelligence.
~By Portia de Rossi ~
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
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 ~
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
~By Christopher Reeve ~
The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team.
~By Gerard Arpey ~
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
~By Hal Borland ~
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
~By Peter Drucker ~
The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
~By Clare Boothe Luce ~
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.
~By Branch Rickey ~
I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
~By Ossie Davis ~
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
~By Jean Paul ~
Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.
~By William Godwin ~
I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.
~By Jaime King ~
The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
~By Michael Korda ~
Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.
~By Steve Bartlett ~
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 ~
The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today's shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our resolve and remind us all of the danger of complacency during our continued war on terror.
~By Mark Foley ~
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 ~
Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
~By John Lothrop Motley ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.
~By Ernest Istook ~
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.
~By Brittany Murphy ~
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 ~
I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.
~By Louis MacNeice ~
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
~By William Shenstone ~
Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.
~By Diane Watson ~
It should strengthen investors' confidence. This is done through transparency, high quality financial reports, and a standardized economic market. This is not just for China, but also for the world market as a whole.
~By Richard Grasso ~
Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.
~By John Krasinski ~
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.
~By Lydia Sigourney ~
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 ~
I had to wait a while to get the scans back but it shows nothing in terms of needing surgery which is good. I hurt my AC joint and I just need to strengthen it. There is an outside chance to start training by the end of this week and if not than the start of next week.
~By Claudio Reyna ~
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
~By Betty Friedan ~
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
~By Arnold Palmer ~
There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.
~By John Raleigh Mott ~
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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 ~
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 ~
I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.
~By Ricardo Montalban ~
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
~By Ovid ~
The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain.
~By Mary Lynn Rajskub ~
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.
~By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
~By George Sand ~
One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
~By Barack Obama ~
I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.
~By Vita Sackville-West ~
Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.
~By Andrew Shue ~
Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
~By Andrei Sakharov ~
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them.
~By John Adair ~
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
~By Billy Graham ~
Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
~By Paul Gauguin ~
It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.
~By Whoopi Goldberg ~
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
~By Robert South ~
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
~By Phil Jackson ~
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
~By Plato ~
Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.
~By Sid Waddell ~
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 ~
This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.
~By Du Fu ~
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 ~
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
~By George Orwell ~
It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
~By Anna Quindlen ~
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
~By Harriet Tubman ~
Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .
~By Maria W. Chapman ~
You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.
~By Erskine Bowles ~
We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.
~By John Bacon ~
When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.
~By Audre Lorde ~
I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.
~By Douglas Wood ~
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
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