Top 100 Strengthened Quotes
#1. It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation. The other great tonic for the immune system is love - loving ourselves as well as others.
Bernie Siegel
#2. I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life, a strengthened feeling of existence, fullness and concentration of pulse, energy, growth, flowering, beyond the image of happiness or unhappiness.
Nina Berberova
#3. Love is strengthened by distance. Dreams have weight and velocity. They are signals, promises. They have a destination. One night we will know no doubts, feel no foreign forces, and our particles will come to rest.
Sean Michaels
#4. To those who believe but wish their belief to be strengthened, I urge you to walk in faith and trust in God. Spiritual knowledge always requires an exercise of faith.
James E. Faust
#5. It is not a rare occurrence among intimate friends that their friendship is strengthened when one has displeased the other but has afterwards humbled himself and asked pardon.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#6. One person is enough to inspire the world. One quote can quench the souls of millions. One voice can start a revolution. One dream can tap into the dreams of many, naturally strengthened
as it grows to inspire an ever-increasing number of people.
Elaina Marie
#7. The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It's then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives.
All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.
Walt Disney
#8. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.
Helen Keller
#9. When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.
Thomas Jefferson
#10. Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence.
Stefan Zweig
#11. See? Reading you all night has strengthened me. That's what God's love does. If you're beginning to feel uncomfortable now, it's because the changes in you are already beginning to happen and one day you'll be glad to say, Deliver me from meaninglessness.
Ian McEwan
#12. Unified thinking without borders in apparent dimensions can only be strengthened when focused collectively 'internally'.
AainaA-Ridtz
#13. Like the intense fire that transforms iron into steel, as we remain faithful during the fiery trial of our faith, we are spiritually refined and strengthened.
Neil L. Andersen
#14. Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
Robert Gass
#15. Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
Viktor E. Frankl
#16. And the shining strengthened me against the fright
whose agony had wracked the lake of my heart
through all the terrors of that piteous night.
Dante Alighieri
#17. The process of establishing the identity of passport applicants needs to be strengthened by introducing a requirement for some applicants to attend a passport office in person.
Des Browne
#19. Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.
Jean De La Bruyere
#20. When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.
[Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
Tacitus
#21. Purity both of the body and the soul rests on the steadfastness of the will strengthened by God's grace, and cannot be forcibly taken from an unwilling person.
Augustine Of Hippo
#22. Weak hearts will be strengthened, and drooping saints will be revived as they listen to our "songs of deliverance." Their doubts and fears will be rebuked, as we teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#23. White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.
Carrie Chapman Catt
#24. This was a fundamentally changed man, one who had come back strengthened, not weakened, by what he had endured, but who was also both less and more than he once had been. For
John Connolly
#25. The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened.
Swami Vivekananda
#26. To you who are worthy and able to attend the temple, I would admonish you to go often. The temple is a place where we can find peace. There we receive a renewed dedication to the gospel and a strengthened resolve to keep the commandments.
Thomas S. Monson
#28. Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity.
Simon Bolivar
#29. Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don't fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me.
Bayard Rustin
#30. As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives - in the gym, or a money management program - that strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked. Once willpower became stronger, it touched everything.
Charles Duhigg
#31. He has either strengthened your back to bear, or lightened your burden, or else opened an unexpected door of escape, according to promise (1 Corinthians 10:13), so that the evil which you feared did not come upon you.
John Flavel
#32. There's magic in stories, magic in hope, and magic in coming together. I have learnt from people's stories, been inspired by their hope, and been strengthened by their coming together.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#33. Nanak's encounter of God and God's court was in fact a profound hallucinatory Near-Death Experience caused by drowning that strengthened his pre-conceived notion of a rational, compassionate and unorthodox society.
Abhijit Naskar
#34. The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare and safety of the State, the greater is the security of the State.
Frederick Douglass
#35. People whose minds are not strengthened for endurance are by no means always unintelligent. They simply have never stopped to think that the use of the mind for the purpose of growth is a necessary part of a God-pleasing lifestyle.
Gordon MacDonald
#36. Think of the repentance that could take place with lives changed, marriages preserved, and homes strengthened, if pride did not keep us from confessing our sins and forsaking them.
Ezra Taft Benson
#37. The feeling that passed between them, so powerful there was no language to describe it... It was not mere friendship, but something born of and strengthened by it.
Sarah J. Maas
#38. Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the same person; nay by their very opposition and desire to destroy each other, are they strengthened and increased.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
#39. Including myself, the majority of the Korean people believe in this staunch alliance between Korea and the United States and all of us hope that our traditional alliance will be further strengthened in the future.
Lee Myung-bak
#40. In the past I faced assassination attempts. I faced harassment, intimidation and prison due to my bold stand on this issue. But these difficult challenges strengthened my faith; strengthened my belief; and strengthened my commitment and devotion to this cause.
Shahbaz Bhatti
#41. In true marriage there must be a union of minds as well as of hearts. Emotions must not wholly determine decisions, but the mind and the heart, strengthened by fasting and prayer and serious consideration, will give one a maximum chance of marital happiness.
Spencer W. Kimball
#42. If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened.
George Muller
#43. The soul has neither beginning nor end [They] come into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of their previous lives
Origen
#44. When you refuse to entertain the possibility of a solution because you "know" it will not work, then you have successfully strengthened the problem at hand
Gary Hopkins
#45. More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.
Mason Cooley
#46. It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.
Drew Brees
#47. To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self; it is to have strengthened one's essential position [in life].
Sven Birkerts
#48. When social cooperation is disrupted, state power is always strengthened.
Wilhelm Reich
#49. When we help others to perform at the highest level of their potential, we receive something of value; our character is strengthened.
Ellen J. Barrier
#50. My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.
Steve Maraboli
#51. Imbued with the desire to secure for the German people the great religious, moral, and cultural values rooted in the two Christian Confessions, we have abolished the political organizations but strengthened the religious institutions.
Adolf Hitler
#52. The truth is that adversity is a part of most days. Whether you are ultimately weakened or strengthened by each event, or the accumulation of events, will depend on you first mastering the ability to Take It On!
Erik Weihenmayer
#53. Most people are either awakened to or are strengthened in their spiritual journey by experiences in the natural world.
Richard Louv
#54. Your thoughts exist. Whatever you have thought today, yesterday or many years back, it is energy and it exists. Your attention activates thoughts and it is strengthened with your repetition.
Hina Hashmi
#55. We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of course with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon us all.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#56. Fearlessly use the power of your will & determination to go forth in life, strengthened.
Eleesha
#57. It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.
Tipper Gore
#58. Yet we flatter our strength unduly when we compare it even to a reed stick! For whatever vain men devise and babble concerning these matters is but smoke. Therefore Augustine with good reason often repeats the famous statement that free will is by its defenders more trampled down than strengthened.
John Calvin
#59. I think we have to stand up against what is unacceptable, and to push the boundaries and reclaim a more humane way of being in the world, so that we can extend our compassionate intelligence and begin to work with a strengthened will and imagination that can take us into the future.
Terry Tempest Williams
#60. I've felt emotions onstage that I never felt before; it has strengthened me as a person and as an artist.
Ricky Martin
#61. If Wenger had strengthened in the window, Arsenal could have been stronger
Tony Cascarino
#62. They stayed for rapt moments in the crystal sphere of this soul, as if in a realm of invisible radiation, listening to unearthly music, and then returned to their daily lives with hearts cleansed and strengthened, as if descending from a high mountain peak.
Hermann Hesse
#63. Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.
Tryon Edwards
#64. Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
Madame De Stael
#65. To Moses We gave the Book and sent a succession of messengers after him. We gave Jesus, son of Mary, clear signs and strengthened him with the Holy Spirit. But, whenever a messenger came to you with something which you did not desire, you grew arrogant, calling some liars and slaying others.
Anonymous
#66. Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
John R.W. Stott
#67. Friendship is strengthened by ... that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#68. Tens of thousands of God's saints and sufferers through the ages have found their dark nights lightened and tortured souls strengthened because they found help from the Spirit in the Word of God.
Billy Graham
#69. Life is a mixture of successes and failures. May you be encouraged by the successes and strengthened by the failures. As long as you never lose faith in God, you will be victorious over any situation you may face.
Peace Pilgrim
#70. Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
Josh Billings
#71. In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.
John Of The Cross
#72. The breaking of us has actually been the making of us . . . the God-strengthened us He could use.
Lysa TerKeurst
#73. Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.
Charles Caleb Colton
#74. That's the lesson for us. It's never too late. We're never too far gone. We haven't strayed too far. God is always good, and he always remembers us. Our prayer isn't to get revenge on a group of people, but it's to be strengthened once more so we might live for God's glory.
Louie Giglio
#75. I valued the biblical foundation I got at Biola. I was able to take classes that strengthened my faith and helped me to better understand what I believe and how to, in a practical way, apply my faith in real-world situations.
John Thune
#76. War ... strengthened the position of the armament industries ... to a point ... that these industries dominated the economies and therefore the governments of all the participating nations ... war barbarised and lowered the already very low level of accepted conduct.
Doris Lessing
#77. May we be strengthened with the understanding that being blessed does not mean that we shall always be spared all the disappointments and difficulties of life.
Heber J. Grant
#78. Kindness is not a fixed trait that we either have or lack, but more like a muscle that can be developed and strengthened.
Sharon Salzberg
#79. They must go out of the theatre with the strength they live by strengthened from looking upon some passion that could, whatever its chosen way of life, strike down an enemy, fill a long stocking with money or move a girl's heart.
W.B.Yeats
#80. We have weakened the parties and strengthened all the special interests.
Mark Shields
#81. Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood.
Lord Chesterfield
#82. Our communications reflect in our countenance. Therefore, we must be careful not only what we communicate, but also how we do so. Souls can be strengthened or shattered by the message and the manner in which we communicate.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#83. Disgust at idols strengthened his love for idolaters, and the man who once held Gentile neighbors at a distance now listened to their problems, fears, and temptations.
John Charles Pollock
#84. The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together.
Ben Edwards
#85. I'd like to think that we've certainly strengthened the position of some of our government businesses.
Peter Gutwein
#86. Was forged in the bowels of this hard world. Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love. He
Pierce Brown
#87. As your faith is strengthened, you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will and that you will flow with them to your great delight and benefit.
Emmanuel Teney
#89. Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.
James E. Faust
#90. So I took courage because I was strengthened by Yahweh my God,
Anonymous
#91. The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.
Pope Paul VI
#92. Grace, lavished upon us by God and communicated through the Mystery of the Incarnate Word, is an absolutely free gift with which nature is healed, strengthened and assisted in pursuing the innate desire for happiness in the heart of every man and of every woman.
Pope Benedict XVI
#93. Faith is like a tender plant, rooted in Christ alone, watered by the Spirit and the Word, strengthened by the winds of adversity and the sunshine of blessing.
Anne Graham Lotz
#95. I come from a state that has virtually no gun control. And yet, at political peril, I voted for an instant background check, which I want to see strengthened and expanded. I voted to ban certain types of assault weapons which are designed only to kill people.
Bernie Sanders
#96. Love ... is a deep unity maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both parents ask, and receive, from God.
C.S. Lewis
#97. Every one's abilities may be increased or strengthened by a kind of culture.
Jacob Abbott
#98. Our long wanderings have made a man out of him, too. They have not only strengthened his frame and hardened his constitution, but they have given stability to his character. He is thoughtful and prudent, and his advice will always be valuable, while of his courage I have no doubt.
G.A. Henty
#99. Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.
Stephen Lewis
#100. Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit ...
C.S. Lewis
