Of Strength Quotes

#1. Youth boasts of strength;
age boasts of wisdom.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.

Kahlil Gibran

#3. My suffering helps me to find grace of strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Being part of a secret is a great source of strength.

Eoin Colfer

#5. Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Dalai Lama

#6. For what can excuse a man in the eyes of other men for lack of strength?

Zora Neale Hurston

#7. Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.

Jay Alan Sekulow

#8. 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.

John Knowles

#9. Kindness is never a sign of weakness but an attribute of strength and courage.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Nor ought we ever to allow any growing power to acquire such a degree of strength as to be able to tear from us, without resistance, our natural, undisputed rights.

Polybius

#11. Certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.

Erica Jong

#12. Spirituality gives sacredness of strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Humility is the surest sign of strength.

Thomas Merton

#14. healthy. I believe that when one can grow to the point where he loves his work, this gives him a kind of strength that is most valuable.

Booker T. Washington

#15. I observed the woman I had been up until then: weak but trying to give the impression of strength. Fearful of everything but telling herself it wasn't fear - it was the wisdom of someone who knew what reality was.

Paulo Coelho

#16. A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.

Aaron Eckhart

#17. Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing.

Helen Keller

#18. How often have we ourselves said or have heard others exclaim in times of crisis or trouble, 'I just don't know where to turn'? If we will just use it, there is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance.

Marvin J. Ashton

#19. To find out that there is even one devoted fan who loves you, as a singer, without any condition, gives you tremendous amount of strength and courage. I work over and over again so I dont disappoint those people.

BoA

#20. Man or woman......It doesn't matter! One of strength......And nobility......Is always a prince.

Be-Papas

#21. Expression is a sign of Strength, not Weakness...

Alex Okoroji

#22. Angie called pause again, rose from the bed, went to the window. She felt an elation, an unexpected sense of strength and inner unity.

William Gibson

#23. We're kindred spirits. And you're strong, Nikki. There's a core of strength and confidence in you that's damn sexy.

J. Kenner

#24. Love is the foundation of strength.

Elizabeth Hunter

#25. Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play ... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#26. Dream chasers are full of strength, are full of desire, are passionate and they cling unto their dreams until they produce life.

Euginia Herlihy

#27. I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me from the fear.

Peter Gabriel

#28. Your majesty, please reconsider," Lord Dudley pleaded. "Your position will be much stronger with your husband as king. The people will see it as a sign of strength - "
She took a deep breath. "They need signs of my strength, not my reliance on the men around me

Cynthia Hand

#29. Either way, emotions aren't a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength and passion.

Demi Lovato

#30. Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and then allows you to learn something new.

Barack Obama

#31. Men have special needs too: for example, a man generally needs a higher daily intake of calories than a woman. But this has never been though of as a sign of men's inferiority to women; if anything, it is a sign of strength and an entitlement to extra food.

Jonathan Wolff

#32. I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.

Julio Iglesias

#33. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.

Mao Zedong

#34. Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.

Ron Fournier

#35. Do not be afraid that too much labour over the composition is going to kill the spontaneity. Those who absorb and digest their experiences are, of a sudden, mountains of strength and can produce pictures with spontaneous start and finish.

John F. Carlson

#36. To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable art: yet what could be more necessary than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds in which high spirits play no part. Only excess of strength is proof of strength.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#37. Americans see independence as a symbol of strength, viewing interdependence as a sign of weakness

Adam M. Grant

#38. Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.

Clive James

#39. My hero among heroes is my grandmother, she's the epitome of strength and I try to mock that strength all the time. She's a beast.

Aeriel Miranda

#40. And a man who is six feet three in height has six feet and three inches of evil to do battle with, if he has not six feet three of strength and honesty to fight for him.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#41. I know Vladimir Putin. He respects strength. He lied to our president's [Barack Obama] face; didn't both to tell him about warplanes and troops going into Syria. We need to speak to him from a position of strength.

Carly Fiorina

#42. I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.

Zac Goldsmith

#43. The human hand has an amazing quality that nothing else has: tremendous efficiency of strength and yet total gentleness.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#44. I am still trying to glue together the broken pieces of this person I love. He manages his tortured side with remarkable skill, but even Chris, with his endless supply of strength and clarity, could not survive all that he did without scars.

Jessica Park

#45. In a world where masculinity is respected and femininity is regularly dismissed, it takes an enormous amount of strength and confidence for any person, whether female- or male-bodied, to embrace their feminine self.

Julia Serano

#46. During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.

Asger Jorn

#47. 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.

Arthur Holly Compton

#48. The most difficult kind of strength
restraint.

Rick Riordan

#49. As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.

George Washington

#50. The king's name is a tower of strength.

William Shakespeare

#51. Isn't it funny how ignorance is the source of strength of so many?

Lionel Suggs

#52. It was funny how just when you thought you knew yourself through and through, you stumbled on a new kind of strength, a fresh reserve of power inside you that you never knew you had, and all at once you found yourself burning a little brighter and hotter than you ever had before.

Lev Grossman

#53. Strength is nothing more than enduring life - to be able to survive the heartaches and agonies we go through with our heads held high. Sometimes just walking through adversity to get to the other side is a sign of strength.

Sylvia Browne

#54. It was when I entered the military preparatory school and put on its uniform, that a feeling of strength came to me, as if I had become master of my own destiny.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#55. With speed skating, it's like doing one-legged squats over and over again, with that one leg absorbing more than 80 percent of your weight. It takes an enormous amount of strength, and you're in such a weird position.

Apolo Ohno

#56. Humility is not weakness but a quality of strength.

Paul Gitwaza

#57. Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

Vladimir Lenin

#58. So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness.

Angela Merkel

#59. Soft things are terrifying. They're the real signals of death. Images of strength can never be that terrifying. It's the images of weakness that are a real apocalypse.

Jenny Hval

#60. There are many types of strength beyond the ability to wield a blade and end lives.

Sarah J. Maas

#61. I will never quit. My nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down i will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my enemies and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight.

Marcus Luttrell

#62. My mother was very ill when I was 18. She had a brain operation and then a nervous breakdown. It's very strange when you see your parents, who have always been your pillars of strength, suddenly become vulnerable. You don't know whether to be angry that they are not strong or devastated.

Emilia Fox

#63. Fighting to protect the people you cared for was one thing. Trusting someone you loved to fight for themselves took a different kind of strength and bravery.

Martina Boone

#64. Characteristics of strength and
individuality requires confidence and self-assurance to choose what is right
against all odds.

Lorna Jackie Wilson

#65. The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Swami Vivekananda

#66. There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is.

Oprah Winfrey

#67. A father's tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remains as a pillar of strength throughout our lives.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#68. The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Swami Vivekananda

#69. To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#70. It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.

David Levithan

#71. It's important to remember how fortunate we are as a country to have a currency and a bond market that is seen in every way as a source of strength and it's a huge responsibility for us to keep it that way.

Lawrence Summers

#72. To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

Karen Horney

#73. The paradox of relaxation is the renewal of mind; rekindle of spirit and revitalize of strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#74. The body is a self-sufficient source of strength, happiness, healing power, love and resilience. The secret to tap into these sources, is to increase your spirituality.

Linda Alfiori

#75. Any man will be able, after sufficient practice, to accomplish remarkable feats of strength, but he may go only so far and no farther. There is a limit to human physical strength that no one can exceed.

Gichin Funakoshi

#76. It was well to impress one's enemies with a show of strength. It was even better to be sure one's friends remembered it as well.

Robin Hobb

#77. Be more loving. Great teams are built by authentic leaders who are not afraid to speak truthfully and show kindness. This is not a sign of weakness, it is a sign of strength.

Robin S. Sharma

#78. You have a strong active nature. And this in you is a point of strength. If you can mould it rightly this will become a very great strength. On the other hand, this too is your weak point - a hindrance in sadhana.

Sri Aurobindo

#79. Substitution is a true test of strength. The real performance of a player is seen not only during playing time but also and more especially when the player is substituted.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#80. Feeling comes in aid
Of feeling, and diversity of strength
Attends us, if but once we have been strong.

William Wordsworth

#81. [The loss- of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#82. No matter what is going on around or within you, everything at some point must change. It's harder to accept when things are great - and a source of strength when change is what you need. Either way, it reminds me to try my best to be fully present in every moment.

Kandyse McClure

#83. Do not abandon love. Love is the foundation of strength. What we build on and hold to. Find

Elizabeth Hunter

#84. Weak and needy people finding their hope in Christ's grace are what mark a mature relationship. The most dangerous aspect of your relationships is not your weakness, but your delusions of strength.

Tim Lane And Paul Tripp

#85. Sensibility, imagination, reason, each is subservient to the other. Every one of these faculties would be nothing but a disease, but weakness, instead of strength, if it were not modified or completed by the collective character of our nature.

Germaine De Stael

#86. Lack of strength is alright, lack of confidence is what we should be worried about.

Sarvesh Jain

#87. Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.

Mitt Romney

#88. Every time he is unable to answer one of her questions he feels another theft of strength from his limbs.

Glenn Haybittle

#89. It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. We have nothing else to give.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#90. There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'
No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

Dalai Lama XIV

#91. I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Thomas Jefferson

#92. A pillar of strength, Daffy had once remarked, was a nice way of saying someone was terminally bossy,

Alan Bradley

#93. Savings give you a lot of strength, flexibility and control. They are what give you the most powerful Answer In The World.

Patrick Bet-David

#94. I crave broken men.
When I try to save other people
am I trying to save myself?
Am I covering up for my lack of strength
by putting people back together?
I am tired.
I want someone to save me -
build an intricate web
and place it beneath me in case I fall.

Samantha Schutz

#95. Our family is a circle of strength and love ... Our family with ever birth and every union the circle grows, our family is a circle of strength every crisis faced together makes the circle stronger.

Harriet Morgan

#96. Beloved Christian reader, in matters of grace you need a daily supply. You have no store of strength. Day by day you must seek help from above. It is a very happy assurance that you are provided with a regular allowance.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#97. [T]hose who are in a position of strength have a responsibility to protect the weak.

Thomas Cushman

#98. Hope is not pretending that troubles don't exist. It is the trust that they will not last forever, that hurts will be healed and difficulties overcome. It is faith that a source of strength and renewal lies within to lead us through the dark into the sunshine.

Liz Chase

#99. Maybe becoming a monster is a sign of strength.

Rafael Yglesias

#100. I want to take you until you are boneless. I want to drain you of strength. I want to fill you and take my fill of you. My dear, Ivy, I want to devour you. I want your juices on my toung, flooding my mouth. I want your wetness on my face, your scent covering me. I want your blood in my veins.

Kathryn Smith