Quotes About Body Strength

#1. It's almost sad that it's something that's just associated with stripping or because someone is slutty. That's really not it. It's actually a really great way to get a work-out and to build upper body strength and to have fan.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

#2. Women are seen as imperfect or unclean, because of a myth of a tempting apple, because they bleed monthly, because they lack equivalent upper body strength.

Thomm Quackenbush

#3. People with no upper-body strength, who read poetry. These are my people.

Caitlin Moran

#4. Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.

Sid Waddell

#5. I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.

Bear Grylls

#6. In the game of football, you need to be strong, and at my position, you need to be able to put up a good fight. So I work on my upper body and lower body strength because your body's got to be able to last.

LaMarr Woodley

#7. Strength of body. Strength of mind. strength of personality. All this things lie within a person. They define us. They determine our limits.

Patrick Rothfuss

#8. Males
they've all trained against each other. They expect attacks to certain zones on their bodies and from someone who's used to relying on upper-body strength. And they always, always underestimate women.

Susan Ee

#9. They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've further advanced in that regard.

Daryl Gates

#10. The sign of vigour, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, the sign of everything that is good, is strength. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, [and strength] in the hand.

Swami Vivekananda

#11. Yoga is about balance, both mind and body, as well as increasing self-awareness, with by-products of better strength and flexibility.

M.E. Dahkid

#12. It's not his body
that changes
right away.
it's something
inside. he says
he wants to
be a little
weaker. i don't
understand.
i say 'thinner?'
and he says
'no, i want
to be stronger
in a different
way.' not
because of me,
but for me.

David Levithan

#13. I want
you to have
this,

all the beauty in my eyes, and the grace of my mouth,
all the splendor of my strength,

all the
wonder of the musk parts
of my
body,

for are we
not talking about real love, real
love?

Mirabai

#14. Silence nurtures the soul, relaxes the body temple and gives us the strength we need in moments of uncertainty. Welcome it.

Ana Ortega

#15. Bean also saw how the man's body moved inside his clothes, with a kind of contained strength that made his clothes seem like Kleenex, he could rip through the fabric just by tugging at it a little, because nothing could hold him in except his own self-control.

Orson Scott Card

#16. Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testable body of knowledge constantly open to rejection or confirmation. In science, knowledge is fluid and certainty fleeting. That is at the heart of its limitations. It is also its greatest strength.

Michael Shermer

#17. Because happiness alone is good for the body; whereas sorrow develops the strength of the mind.

Marcel Proust

#18. It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.

Arlene Croce

#19. What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

Meryl Streep

#20. Pain seared through me again-a hot, burning stab in my gut-and yet my body found strength I didn't know I had, correcting as I fell.

Ally Carter

#21. Courage conquers all things:
it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

#22. For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself

Thomas Hobbes

#23. In the world in which we live, it is almost a necessity to be able to regain one's strength of body and spirit, especially for those who live in the city, where the conditions of life, often feverish, leave little room for silence, reflection and relaxed contact with nature.

Pope Benedict XVI

#24. There are many forms of magic in this world, High Lord. Some come in large packages, some in small. Some work with fire and strength of body and heard ... and some work with revelation.

Terry Brooks

#25. The greatest comfort comes from within. Sit down comfortably. As you control your breath, let your mind watch your body. Tell yourself, "It's Ok." At this moment your soul will find peace and your body, too, will follow, finding comfort and new strength.

Ilchi Lee

#26. To cherish my purity and set boundaries are, in my opinion, the highest forms of feminism - a woman who saves her body proves she is strong and secure enough to resist the men who seek to claim her, that she's more than what lies between her legs.

Caroline George

#27. Hope replaced fear. Light subsumed darkness. Strength, born of the power of this presence, mingled with Kathryn's own determination and reordered the last of her mangled body and soul, realigning them into all that she had once been.
What she would now be was once again an open question.

Kirsten Beyer

#28. Strength is not in the body, it's in the mind. It doesn't lie in flexing your muscles and crushing those who oppose you. It lies in being the last one standing. By any means. At any cost.

Leah Raeder

#29. Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakeneth the body of man, and effeminateth the strength of the heroic mind.

Francis Quarles

#30. The impact of human intention on physical systems within as well as outside the body has been scientifically demonstrated and reveals a shortcoming of the conventional medical paradigm and highlights a strength of the energy medicine paradigm.

Jed Diamond

#31. And when he
catches me
off guard
and says
'i love you'
i catch him
off guard
and say 'i need your help.

David Levithan

#32. The female body was designed as a source of pleasure, fertility, movement, strength and wellbeing.

Christiane Northrup

#33. We become one body ; the enemy being separated into ten parts. We attack the divided ten with the united one. We are many, the enemy is few, and in superiority of numbers there is economy of strength.

Sun Tzu

#34. What strength does a mother have, and from which of her body cells does that energy come from?

Maria Tzoutzopoulou

#35. Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord, and let your service be according to reason.

Clare Of Assisi

#36. How can the face that welcomed me into the world be the face I'll soon forget? How can the body I came through be the body I don't really know?

Michelle Carithers

#37. If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by good nutritious food-then only will the mind be strong.

Swami Vivekananda

#38. The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

Thomas Jefferson

#39. God, everything about him radiated sex, from the strength in his body to the way he moved to the smell of his skin.

J.R. Ward

#40. She would figure out how to get what she wanted, what she needed, even when her long lashes failed to convince, when her body was no longer young and beautiful. She'd be more than pretty, She'd be strong.

Kass Morgan

#41. 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.

Henry Villard

#42. 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.

Agnes Smedley

#43. I hate how my body shivers at the idea of glory. There's something deep in man that hungers for this. But I think it weakness, not strength, to abandon decency for that strange darker spirit.

Pierce Brown

#44. Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

#45. Hair on a man's chest is thought to denote strength. The gorilla is the most powerful of bipeds and has hair on every place on his body except for his chest.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#46. If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act.

Emmanuelle Beart

#47. The sheer strength of the storm lifted my body further and I began twisting with it like a ballerina in an out of control pirouette.

Elle Klass

#48. The body tries to stop the mind from killing itself, no matter the cost. It is only the lack of strength, the fatigue that lets the jumpers fall at last.

Thomm Quackenbush

#49. She had taken many more punches to both body and soul than anyone should ever have to endure. But she had been able to rebel every time.

Stieg Larsson

#50. It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#51. Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future.

Anthony Trollope

#52. As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

#53. First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#54. Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth

Christiane Northrup

#55. You have to keep a little bit extra fat on the body. The strength and conditioning guy is always all over me about it, but it seems to make guys bounce off me better.

Tony Amonte

#56. Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.

Jane Fonda

#57. What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?

Plutarch

#58. Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.

Ann Richards

#59. Now to act with integrity, according to that strength of mind and body with which our creator hath endowed each of use, appears necessary for all.

John Woolman

#60. The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions.

Edmund Burke

#61. What strength he once possessed had left his body and gone to a tiny girl with freckles.

Paullina Simons

#62. I've just always felt it's an incredibly empowering thing, particularly for young women, to capitalize on their coordination and their strength. It's a very empowering thing to feel strong in your body.

Alanis Morissette

#63. At all times, in all circumstances, Christ is able and willing to provide the strength we need to be content. Contentment occurs when Christ's strength is infused into my weak body, soul, and spirit.

Linda Dillow

#64. Divine love"
"Don't Leave me,
ONLY
To carry my body
on my two feet
I need you

Seema Gupta

#65. Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

Henry Chadwick

#66. Prayer is only another name for good, clean, direct thinking. When you pray, think well what you are saying, and make your thoughts into things that are solid. In that manner, your prayer will have strength, and that strength shall become part of you, mind, body, and spirit.

Richard Llewellyn

#67. Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.

Rachel Platten

#68. What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.

Annie Besant

#69. His lips brush my ear as his voice causes my body to come to attention. If the night never ends, then there's never a new day ... and with a new day comes renewed hope, light.

J.B. McGee

#70. Every line from you exhilarates my spirits and gives me a glow of pleasure, but your kind congratulations are solid comfort to my heart. The little strength of mind and the considerable strenght of body that I once possessed appear to be all gone, but while I breathe I shall be your friend.

David McCullough

#71. The difference in my body from pre-pregnancy to post-baby was night and day. I didn't have the strength, I didn't have the flexibility, I didn't have the stamina, I didn't have the mobility. I felt like I was handicapped.

Evangeline Lilly

#72. At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.

Osamu Dazai

#73. A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.

David Gemmell

#74. I am overwhelmed by the strength of my body and the power of my mind. For one moment, just one second, I feel immortal.

Diana Nyad

#75. True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible however never means weakness but something more like adaptability and openmindedness. Gentleness always overcomes strength.

Kyuzo Mifune

#76. When we hold onto worry, regret, and anger, peace of mind, strength of body, and freedom of spirit eludes us.

Charles F. Glassman

#77. In Ayurveda our body type or Dosha provides the key to understanding what we are, allowing us to examine and fine-tune our diets and lifestyles to create health, strength and energy for life. We

Linda Bretherton

#78. You can train your mental strength just like you train your body. If your body looks fit or ripped, it looks strong, and you can flex your muscles. So, physically, you have a certain strength. Mentally, it's the same thing. You can train your psychological strength.

Wladimir Klitschko

#79. Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate. I wallow in a thick depression. My body shuts down my mind.

Henry Rollins

#80. There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.

Philip Sidney

#81. It is one of the great ironies of my life that only when it became virtually impossible for me to keep my body from moving would I find the peace, security, and spiritual strength to stand in one place. I couldn't be still until I could - literally - no longer keep still.

Michael J. Fox

#82. It is not his body which makes a man strong, but his spirit. Nothing on the outside, but only that which comes from within.

Jocelyn Murray

#83. All the sudden high-impact stress can really take a toll on your body. So if you still want to be active and get in a good workout, go to a yoga class or pilates class, or get in some strength and conditioning.

Sophia Bush

#84. ... I never understood until the past months why the Master so often withdrew alone into the wilderness. There is not only food and medicine for one's body; there is also healing for the heart and strength for the soul in nature. One gets very close to God ... in these temples of God's own building.

Harold Bell Wright

#85. Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them

G. Stanley Hall

#86. How is domestication a violent process? A living thing's wildness is something potent: its strength lies in every cell of the body. Nothing was born to live in captivity, to be tamed, subdued and made submissive, and nothing accepts such a role without being forced.

Miles Olson

#87. I was in love when I felt your soul speaks in my Body

Seema Gupta

#88. Your enemy wants to strip you, make sport of you, and merchandise your body, but your heavenly Father wants to clothe you with beauty, strength, dignity and honor that will endure.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#89. O God, You know me to be set in the midst of great peril. Grant me such strength of mind and body, that those evils which I suffer for my sins I may overcome through Thy assistance. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

S.M. Stirling

#90. Greatness in your body is strength.
Greatness in your mind is wisdom.
Greatness in your heart is faith.
Greatness in your soul is love.
Greatness in your life is God.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#91. It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

Frank Duff

#92. Yoga means addition - addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.

Amit Ray

#93. You can give illness to her body but you can't take the gypsy out of that girl.

Nikki Rowe

#94. As ages roll on there is doubtless a progression in human nature. The intellectual comes to rule the physical, and the moral claims to subordinate both. It is no longer strength of body that prevails, but strength of mind; while the law of God proclaims itself superior to both.

James McCosh

#95. Suffering has no strength to wound a weary body.

Paulo Coelho

#96. Her strength and spirit were both dripping away, leaving her empty inside. She could feel her filth and hunger, and her body was protesting violently about her long period of tension, and drug and alcohol abuse.

Martin Millar

#97. What no one really talks about, though, is the main reason many of us fail with our weight loss efforts: our minds won't let us.

Helen M. Ryan

#98. My voice rings down through thousands of years to coil around your body and give you strength, you who have wept in direct sunlight, who have hungered in invisible chains, tremble to the cadence of my legacy: An army of lovers shall not fail.

Rita Mae Brown

#99. All physical activity begins with the body's core. I maintain the strength in my core so that I can jump, run, start, stop, and accelerate at the highest levels.

Derrick Rose

#100. You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets.

Ta-Nehisi Coates