Top 100 A Strength Quotes
#1. When this ultimate crisis comes... when there is no way out - that is the very moment when we explode from within and the totally other emerges: the sudden surfacing of a strength, a security of unknown origin, welling up from beyond reason, rational expectation, and hope.
Emile Durkheim
#2. What is my strength? Do I even have a strength? Maybe I have too many strengths, and that's why I can't think of just one.
Wendy Mass
#3. You have to care. You can't do good work if you don't care. That's not necessarily a strength, but it gives you strength.
William Albert Allard
#4. This isn't a strength, Aunt True," I said, "but it's dark in here."
"That's because it's nighttime, you moron!" scoffed Danny.
Heather Vogel Frederick
#5. We need to begin to see hyper-masculinity as the disorder it is, and not as a strength.
Bryant McGill
#6. There is a strength of conviction that can only come from being 100% wrong.
Stephen Schneider
#7. Knowing your limits is a strength, not a weakness.
Kim Harrison
#8. Give them wisdom and devotion in the ordering of their common life, that each may be to the other a strength in need, a counselor in perplexity, a comfort in sorrow, and a companion in joy.
Julia Spencer-Fleming
#9. There's a strength to being able to look at products through a customer's eyes, but it is also dangerous.
Francois-Henri Pinault
#10. An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#11. Believe in a love that is preserved for you like a heritage, and trust that in this love there is a strength and a blessing which you are not bound to leave behind you though you may travel far!
Rainer Maria Rilke
#12. Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.
Josephus Daniels
#13. Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#14. If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter.
Warren Buffett
#15. By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#16. Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you're doing it you look forward to doing it; while you're doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you've done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours.
Marcus Buckingham
#17. Ladakh's Prakash, Paryavaran, Paryatan are a strength for both J&K and India.
Narendra Modi
#18. Most bravery, dear little one,' he said as he pulled the dog from the water and rested it across the back of his thickly muscled neck, 'is marked by a strength less than imagined, and a hope farther from reach than one expects.
Steven Erikson
#19. When I first started acting, somebody once said to me that anything that is a problem that prevents you from getting a job will eventually be a strength. It works both ways. The odder you are, the harder it is to get work, but once you sort of establish it, you have no competition.
Tom Noonan
#20. I got a strength coach. My wife. She gets big chains, and at night she puts them around the refrigerator. They are so strong, I can't break them.
George Foreman
#21. In education if you strengthen a strength you weaken a weakness.
Thomas Davis
#23. I don't know if I'm an action star or if that's just how things are shaping up. I would hate to be boxed into that forever, but it's probably just a strength as far as my type goes, and I'm fine with that.
Jai Courtney
#24. Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world.
John Elder Robison
#25. I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
Ossie Davis
#26. Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it.
Paul Brunton
#27. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go. Call that a strength or a failing, whatever.
Sanjay Dutt
#28. I love people, I really do. I'm a people person. I think that's a strength of mine. I love being around people, especially in a team setting.
Jim Harbaugh
#29. The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.
Aisha Tyler
#30. The sea refreshes our imagination because it does not make us think of human life; yet it rejoices the soul, because, like the soul, it is an infinite and impotent striving, a strength that is ceaselessly broken by falls, an eternal and exquisite lament.
Marcel Proust
#31. The true man trusts in a strength which is not his, and which he does not feel, does not even always desire.
George MacDonald
#32. I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.
Joe Torre
#33. The heart of Casterly Rock. Remember the fate of Rhaegar's children." She saw the fear in his young eyes then, but there was a strength as well. "Then I will not lose,
George R R Martin
#34. Actually I don't know if honesty is a strength or some kind of weakness.
Ani DiFranco
#35. Our connection was like a hidden force pulling us towards one another, and resisting it took a strength that I didn't know I could keep up for much longer.
Michelle Madow
#36. My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
Carly Fiorina
#37. When the storms of life come, if they come to me personally, to my family or to the world, I want to be strong enough to stand and be a strength to somebody else, be shelter for somebody else.
Anne Graham Lotz
#38. Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change.
- Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out.
- Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure
- Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.
Dan Millman
#39. Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#40. What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life then? You had to hand it to Theo Wyre, just carrying on living required a strength and courage that most people didn't have.
Kate Atkinson
#41. Working on a weakness within a strength zone will always produce positive results. Working on a weakness outside of the strength zone will not.
John C. Maxwell
#42. To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
#43. There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out, but people tend to think of me for that particular archetype, or whatever you want to call it, and I don't mind it. I think there is a strength to it.
Natalie Zea
#44. 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.
Miriam Makeba
#45. The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know.
Alicia Keys
#46. These various interests are well organized, command more wealth than most modern nations, and are represented in Congress with a strength far greater than is justified in any constitutional or democratic sense. (Modern politics is expensive - power follows money.)
Edward Abbey
#47. Every actor has a strength, and sometimes you just respond to things that you see yourself better at. I'm aware of what I can and can't do.
Jason Statham
#48. But Ana, how could I have been such a lousy judge of character?" I groaned.
"Because you don't much care to judge people's characters," she answered after a moment's thought. "It's a strength, you know, as well as weakness."
It was small consolation.
Chris Stewart
#49. This afternoon the pain occasioned by my loneliness came upon me so piercingly and intensely that I became aware that the strength which I gain through this writing thus spends itself, a strength which I certainly have not intended for this purpose.
Franz Kafka
#51. I know of only a few truisms, one being [that] if your parents didn't have children, you won't have children. Another is whenever you make a strength program easier, you will get weaker.
Bill Starr
#52. Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.
Vallabhbhai Patel
#53. If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed culture, it is this: Great writing has been a staff to lean on, a mother to consult, a wisdom to pick up stumbling folly, a strength in weakness and a courage to support sick cowardice.
John Steinbeck
#54. In fact, there is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise.
Bryan Stevenson
#55. Within the nature of God is a strength that is fashioned in His perfection. Strength flows from the fountain of God's integrity. Honest people are the strongest people.
James MacDonald
#56. A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
Fay Weldon
#57. For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
Barack Obama
#58. Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.
Reed Hastings
#59. There's a strength in that look, a wilfulness; one would almost call it defiance except that it is so good-humoured. It is the look a woman would wear - would have worn - if she asked a man, a stranger, say, to dance.
Ahdaf Soueif
#60. The power of your positive words you sow into other people's lives will also be a strength engine right back to your life. And its called the law of giving and gaining.
Euginia Herlihy
#61. Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.
Criss Jami
#62. For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Anonymous
#63. A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
Elizabeth I
#64. There's an integrity and a strength to women who have been raised in rough country.
Brenda Strong
#65. A strength is a lot like oxygen. We don't really pay much attention to it - unless it's missing.
Julie Winkle Giulioni
#66. If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#67. There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.
Doris Humphrey
#69. Hope means hoping when things are hopeless or it is no virtue at all. It is only when things are hopeless that hope begins to be a strength (G. K. Chesterton). Hope is an undefeated forward look.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#70. African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
Wangari Maathai
#71. I was born to speak. I got in trouble as a kid for talking. I already knew it was a strength.
Eric Thomas
#72. Every weakness contains within itself a strength.
Shusaku Endo
#73. That has always been a strength of Haiti: Beyond crisis, it has beautiful art; it has beautiful music. But people have not heard about those as much as they heard about the coups and so forth. I always hope that the people who read me will want to learn more about Haiti.
Edwidge Danticat
#74. With a strength I can be proud of, I live only for myself, and only die for myself. I'll never die for someone, cause I know the pain of who remains alive, this is my pride.
Kazuya Minekura
#75. Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Jack Welch
#76. Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
Mike Murdock
#77. Any weakness a person may have, is just a strength waiting to happen.
Sharon Fletcher
#78. Whatever happens I'll not be afraid again; for, when you've once pushed through the place of torment to the peace beyond, you know that you can do it again. You know there's a strength somewhere that you can call upon. You've confidence.
Elizabeth Goudge
#79. Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.
Mickey Kaus
#80. Sometimes it seems that men
yes, and even women too!
if they believe in a thing strongly enough, they get a strength or endurance that they wouldn't have believe possible.
Carter Dickson
#81. As long as I can remember, I've been worried. Occasionally, this seemed like a strength. My obsession with avoiding risk helped me to dodge perils of all kinds. I rarely forgot my homework. My holidays were compulsively well-planned.
Neil Hughes
#82. Losing a battle or losing everything we thought we possessed will bring us moments of sadness, but when those moments pass, we will discover the hidden strength that exists in each of us, a strength that will surprise us and increase our self-respect.
Paulo Coelho
#83. One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness.
Mitch Landrieu
#84. There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort.
Sean Penn
#85. If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying.
Kevin Heath
#86. Family prayer is a fourth vital link in the chain of spiritual strength - a strength we are trying to build to protect us from a world gone mad. Practicing prayer as a family, not just a flippant blessing before a meal, can give us the security we need.
Billy Graham
#87. Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
Barry Ritholtz
#88. It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becoming diminished in their eyes, but another entirely to be brave when there is nobody to witness your courage. The latter is an elemental bravery, a strength of spirit and character.
John Connolly
#89. I realize now that there's a strength in dunking that I can use to my advantage. When you dunk all the time it isn't as demoralizing to the opponent, but when you dunk at a key moment in the game you can use it to change the momentum.
Kobe Bryant
#90. Beginning today, set an intention and a relentless focus on living your life as the greatest person you can be, in all situations. Demand that you demonstrate a strength of character in such a way that you find pride in who you are, and that others see you as a role model.
Brendon Burchard
#91. Did the color of his skin matter? No, Lina decided, wouldn't his racial ambiguity be a strength? Wasn't this a history from which they had all emerged, every American, black and white and every shade in between?
Tara Conklin
#92. Trust is a competency. It's something you can get good at. It's a strength you personally, and your team and your company can master. Being good at it will elevate every other strength you have.
Stephen Covey
#93. Accept obstacles as a strength building exercise on the way to success.
Debasish Mridha
#94. I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.
Oprah Winfrey
#95. A barrier for me - which has been both a strength and a weakness - has been my taste. The kind of things I'm interested in aren't always mainstream.
Randa Haines
#96. I'm not a comedian, I'm not a stand-up and I don't come from a comedy background. I am an actor, but I've had a very fortunate foray into comedy, and it seems to have become a bit of a strength, and you can't complain when you become known for something.
Darren Boyd
#97. As long as matters are really hopeful," wrote Chesterton, "hope is mere flattery or platitude. It is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength at all. Like all the Christian virtues, it is as unreasonable as it is indispensable.
Eugene H. Peterson
#98. Elinor ... whose advice was so effectual, possessed a strength of understanding and coolness of judgment ... her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them.
Jane Austen
#99. It is a strength of character to acknowledge our failings and our strong points, and it is a weakness of character not to remain in harmony with both the good and the bad that is within us.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#100. Cinders. Embers. Ashes. Michelle hoped that whatever strength had allowed this child to survive the fire all those years ago was a strength that still burned inside her. That it would go on burning, hotter and hotter, until she was as bright as the rising sun. She
Marissa Meyer
