Top 100 Strength Is Quotes
#1. What is the purpose of piety if there are no temptations to resist? Man is not God, his strength is the ability to restrain his own nature, so I thought, and if he has nothing to restrain, then what are his merits?
Mesa Selimovic
#3. How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it
that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.
J.G. Holland
#4. The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.
Swami Vivekananda
#5. Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
Mignon McLaughlin
#6. Our strength is seen in the things we stand for; our weakness is seen in the things we fall for.
Theodore Epp
#7. ...strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them.
Terrence Real
#8. Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means
Doris Humphrey
#9. We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.
Jennifer Granholm
#10. If you think you are only strong if you can lift a certain number, whatever that number is, you will feel pretty weak most of the time. Strength is not a data point; it's not a number. It's an attitude.
Pavel Tsatsouline
#11. Jose Enrique's strength is that he's very strong
Kevin Keegan
#12. Love is not enough; intelligence is not enough; powerful strength is not enough. You may put everything on one side of the scale, but if you are missing gratitude, you shall lose.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#13. Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
Joseph Conrad
#14. McAfee's No. 1 strength is that they have a fantastic R&D team, engineering, as well as research at the core of security: database threat management.
Renee James
#16. Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.
Guy Finley
#17. Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
James Russell Lowell
#18. Strength is more than crushing a creature beneath you until it is squashed. It is facing the dark truth even after the last shred of hope has died.
Tracy Ann Miller
#19. One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.
Sun Tzu
#20. I don't have anything left. My strength is pouring out of me just as my blood is. I've been in a death-storm countless times before. Is this death in its true form?
Nobuhiro Watsuki
#21. To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
Barry Goldwater
#22. Lack of strength is alright, lack of confidence is what we should be worried about.
Sarvesh Jain
#23. Strength is paradoxical. I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish as a result of my play with them, but because I can allow them to do what they wish in the course of my play with them.
James P. Carse
#24. Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it.
Werner Herzog
#25. The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
Lech Walesa
#27. 'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.
Natalie MacMaster
#28. The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
Audre Lorde
#29. We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions ... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life ... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.
Asger Jorn
#31. Strength is given us for service, not to convey status (see Romans 15:2). I wonder how much trouble would be averted in the world at large if everyone knew and adhered to this principle. What if we knew that our strength was to serve the weak, fearful, or timid? It would all be good!
Lisa Bevere
#34. I think Democrats are always challenged to have a unified message, and it's in part because our strength is our diversity as a party, but our weakness is also the fact that because we're so diverse, we have a hard time getting on one page on message.
Martin Heinrich
#35. Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
Joseph Conrad
#37. Strength is not created by adversity; it is merely awakened by it.
Mark Eddy Smith
#39. Strength is not just in muscle and bone," Rovender said
"That is right," Soth added. "Emotional strength is more powerful.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#40. Superior strength is a sword that manifests one's will.
Hiroyuki Takei
#41. I treasure my meetings with individuals affected by autism - parents, children, teachers and friends. Their strength is inspiring. They deserve all possible opportunities for education, employment and integration.
Ban Ki-moon
#42. I say my greatest strength is my speed, and I think that I could use some work on my concentration.
Jacoby Jones
#43. My greatest strength is the love for my people, my greatest weakness is that I love them too much.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
#44. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.
Mahatma Gandhi
#45. Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity ... If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior ... If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.
Mahatma Gandhi
#46. My biggest strength is I'm courageous, or if I am afraid of something, I do it anyway. I do what I feel. It's nothing personal against anyone, so that courageousness has been very good to me.
Keith Stanfield
#47. Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
Felicia Hemans
#48. A strength is a lot like oxygen. We don't really pay much attention to it - unless it's missing.
Julie Winkle Giulioni
#49. Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
Watchman Nee
#50. The most satisfactory proof of intellectual strength is to be found in the existence of a power which enables the mind to conquer its prejudices and to correct its own errors
John Ayrton Paris
#51. Brute strength is overrated. With the right skills, a does can defeat a lion.
Brittany Comeaux
#52. There was a time when I looked to other people for recognition, because I didn't have enough confidence to trust my own judgment. Now I'm not looking for reassurance, because I realize how fickle people are. My own strength is the best I can have.
Annie Lennox
#53. True strength is shown by the gentle kindness in one's character.
James Kuiken
#54. Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.
Joseph Joubert
#55. Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.
Anais Nin
#56. There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.
George Eliot
#58. When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
Saint Augustine
#60. 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
#61. Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
Judith Viorst
#62. I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is ... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances ... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.
Gregory Harrison
#63. My weight is not enough and strength is not enough either, so I have to take the fight by mastery.
Fedor Emelianenko
#65. Strength is the first virtue," Alera said. "That is not a pleasant fact. Its distastefulness does not alter the truth that without strength to protect them, all other virtues are ephemeral, ultimately meaningless.
Jim Butcher
#66. I think my strength is to do a take all the way through. I am definitely not someone who can do a sprint. Maybe I am not that smart, but it takes me a while to find the moment, and I like to be pushed toward it.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#67. The measure of a person's strength is not his muscular power or strength, but it is his flexibility and adaptability.
Debasish Mridha
#68. But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by ill health. Therefore, since these advantages fail me, I shall win your approval, as I hope, by the help of my knowledge and my writings.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#69. 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
#71. 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
#72. You must nurture a close walk with God through prayer, because humility's strength is grounded in God.
Jim George
#73. I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.
Patrick Rothfuss
#74. Where does strength come from? It is not muscle strength any more. It is not also mere intellectual strength. What is strength? Strength is the support of the people.
Indira Gandhi
#75. Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
James Dyson
#76. When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
Mencius
#77. My instinct is to keep people guessing. I think as an actor your greatest strength is your versatility, I suppose. The blanker the canvas, the easier it is to project the illusion of a character onto it. I think there are many actors who do that very successfully.
Tom Hiddleston
#78. In an easy cause anyone can be eloquent; the slightest strength is enough to break what is already shattered.
Ovid
#79. PRO24.10 If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
Anonymous
#80. Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#82. Be careful when power comes to thee also, lest thou too shouldst smite in thine anger or thy jealousy, for unconquerable strength is a sore weapon in the hands of erring man
H. Rider Haggard
#83. I trust Cuba as a principled country. Cuba's strength is that it has been steadfast in its commitment to the principles of liberation, freedom, of resistance to the kind of institutionalized terrorism that the United States government does every day.
Assata Shakur
#84. Sourav's greatest strength is his mind. He is hardworking - not only in the nets but also mentally. He bounces back.
Sachin Tendulkar
#85. But their strength is the strength of numbers and of stubbornness and persistence; do not underestimate it.
Robin McKinley
#86. As much as I appreciate people putting me in the category of these very acrobatic belters, I feel like my strength is my ... interpretation and my truthfulness with songs, and I don't want young people to think it's all about the high notes that they have to hit.
Idina Menzel
#87. A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.
Aaron Eckhart
#88. Your inner strength is your outer foundation
Allan Rufus
#89. Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.
Henry Rollins
#90. 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.
Pearl S. Buck
#91. A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness ...
David Gemmell
#92. If I "try" to play, I fail; if I force the play, I crush it; if I race, I trip. Any time I stiffen or brace myself against some error or problem, the very act of bracing would cause the problem to occur. The only road to strength is vulnerability.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#93. The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end ... in the end it is our only ally.
Joanne Greenberg
#94. Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise ... Blessed are those whose strength is in you ... blessed is the one who trusts in you!
David
#95. The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
J.C. Ryle
#96. Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.
Sun Tzu
#97. This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Swami Vivekananda
#98. Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drink it straight. And God is the same. Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
Margaret Atwood
#99. At times to think of one's outer helplessness is good, but to think always of one's inner strength is infinitely better.
Sri Chinmoy
#100. In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.
Simon Van Booy
