Strength
- Always remember, there is more strength in you than you ever realized or even imagined. Certainly nothing can keep you down if you are determined to get on top of things and stay there.--Norman Vincent Peale
- Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.--Sarah Dessen
- The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.--Paul Cezanne (Letters)
- Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all management of human affairs.--Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Power" The Conduct of Life)
- Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.--August Wilson
- Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it.--Fred Rogers (The World According to Mr. Rogers)
- 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. --Vince Lombardi
- Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness--a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.--William Cullen Bryant
- Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.--Phillips Brooks
- Each day brings new life, new strength, new dreams and new hope. May you find courage, confidence and hope to reach out for your dreams.--Lailah Gifty Akita
- Father hear the prayer we offer:
Not for ease that prayer shall be,
But for the strength that we may ever
Live our lives courageously.--Love Maria Willis ("Father hear the prayer we offer")
- Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.--Richard E. Byrd
- Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.--Seneca
- God of wilderness, God of wildness, lead me to the quiet places of my soul. In stillness, in openness, may I find my strength.--Jan Richardson
- Good timber does not grow with ease;
the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.--J. Willard Marriott
- Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.--Henry Ward Beecher (Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher)
- I like women who stand up and take charge. Women who lasso the lies of our culture and fan the flames of clarity. You women have been fed a pack of lies that now bounce around in your head. Quit hating your body, trying to fit into an airbrushed ideal. Life is too short and you are too beautiful.--Nancy Thurston ("Rising Up With a Little Kick-Ass Help," Feb. 14, 2014)
- I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strenght 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.--Thomas Paine
- I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.--Etty Hillesum (An Interrupted Life)
- If we are strong, our character will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.--John F. Kennedy (undelivered address, Dallas, November 22, 1963)
- If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.--Hal Borland
- I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.--Ellen Glasgow
- It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.--Helen Keller
- It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.--May Sarton (May Sarton: Excerpts from a Life)
- It’s not in numbers but in unity that our great strength lies.--Thomas Paine
- Know your strengths and take advantage of them.--Greg Norman
- Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.--Drew Barrymore
- Life needs women who will claim their power, own their power, and use it well for all of us. That is Every-woman’s destiny.--Sarah Ban Breathnach (Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self)
- Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible--not to have run away.--Dag Hammarskjold
- A man doesn't realize how much he can stand until he is put to the test. You can stand far more than you think you can. You are much stronger than you think you are.--Martin Niemoller
- Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.--Sigmund Freud (On the History of the Psychoanalytic Movement)
- Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.--Ralph Sockman
- Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.--Jean Paul Richter
- Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.--Mignon McLaughlin (The Second Neurotic's Notebook)
- Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by the art of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived by the fear of punishment.--Mohandas Gandhi
- Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.--Ann Landers
- Some people strengthen others just by being the kind of people they are.--John M. Gardener
- Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.--Napoleon Hill
- Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.--Mahatma Gandhi
- Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.--Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Strength is the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of those pieces--Judith Viorst
- Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.--Amos Bronson Alcott
- Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on "giving as good as they get."--Elbert Hubbard (The Notebook)
- A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.--Jimmy Carter
- There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.--Booker T. Washington
- There is a growing strength in women, but it's in the forehead, not in the forearm.--Beverly Sills
- There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.--Aaron Hill
- There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.--George Macdonald (The Marquis of Lossie)
- Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.--Rachel Carlson
- True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.--Henry Miller (The Time of Assassins)
- What is strength without a double share of wisdom?--John Milton (Samson Agonistes)
- When events occur that we didn’t expect, they increase our faith, strengthen our ability to endure, and bring forth our hidden talents, abilities and strengths.--Iyanla Vanzant
- When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.--Chilon
- When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.--Thomas Merton (No Man Is an Island)
- With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.--Eleanor Roosevelt
- A woman is like a tea bag--only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.--Nancy Reagan (The Observer, 1981)
- You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride.--Charleszetta Waddles
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