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"Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved."
Mattie Stepanek"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."
Arnold Schwarzenegger"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."
Thomas Carlyle"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."
W. H. Auden"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go."
Hermann Hesse"A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong."
Tecumseh"Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths."
Drew Barrymore"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
Friedrich Nietzsche"Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."
Charles Spurgeon"It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go."
J. C. Watts"I like criticism. It makes you strong."
LeBron James"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle."
Napoleon Hill"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."
Liane Cordes"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
Khalil Gibran"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
William Ellery Channing"When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on."
LL Cool J"Heroism is endurance for one moment more."
George F. Kennan"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death."
Leonardo da Vinci"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength."
Saint Francis de Sales"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
Mahatma Gandhi"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
Ernest Hemingway"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive."
Audre Lorde"As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want."
Mike Tyson"A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep."
Vernon Howard"I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it."
Demi Lovato"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
Abraham Lincoln"My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title."
Layne Staley"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."
Orison Swett Marden"The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong."
Rick Perry"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
Samuel Johnson"Only the gentle are ever really strong."
James Dean"What is to give light must endure burning."
Anton Wildgans"A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done."
Marge Piercy"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."
Oprah Winfrey"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
Marcus Aurelius"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory."
William Barclay"Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on."
Henry Rollins"Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense."
Mignon McLaughlin"My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure."
Alfred Lord Tennyson"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."
Samuel Smiles"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."
Peter Marshall"I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."
Christopher Reeve"Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason."
Francis Bacon"I am closest to my mother, as she is my rock, my pillar of strength, and my world. Not only has she stood by me through all times - happy, sad, and otherwise - but there have even been moments when I had completely lost hope, and her immense belief in me had lifted me up."
Amruta Khanvilkar"You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things."
Ken Kesey"True strength is delicate."
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
Max Lerner"Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength."
George Henry Lewes"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."
Buddha"What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged."
Salma Hayek"Humble souls are fearful of their own strength."
William Gurnall"When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself."
Tecumseh"He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty."
Lao Tzu"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
Helen Keller"Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong."
Leo Buscaglia"We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength."
Charles Stanley"A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world."
Marilyn Monroe"Pink is the color of strength, a color of conviction, a color of decision making."
Angad Bedi"Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message."
Charles Vest"Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool."
Esther Williams"When I make a fist, it's strong, and you can't tear it apart. As long as there's unity, there's strength."
Ara Parseghian"Nothing has more strength than dire necessity."
Euripides"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it."
Winston Churchill"Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength."
Eric Hoffer"My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times."
Bear Grylls"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."
Mahatma Gandhi"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
Walt Disney"Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career."
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam"The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong."
Swami Vivekananda"There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself."
Louis XIV"True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself."
Henry Miller"When you surround yourself with like-minded athletes who are all going through the same thing as you, it gives you more drive and strength to get through those moments when you don't want to do it any more, when you think it's hard."
Jessica Fox"People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood."
Zoe Saldana"I was always fascinated by strength. Arnold was an idol of mine."
Brock Lesnar"I do believe in the old saying, 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity."
Angelina Jolie"I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it's a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough. I say let's own who we are and use it as a strength."
Gal Gadot"Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh"Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces."
Judith Viorst"The woman is a gentle, loving bond who encourages, consoles, builds, reconciles, and makes all things new and vibrant. The woman is strength in time of suffering, courageous in failure, intuitive in time of danger. A woman is ingenuous when all fails, resourceful in times of want, and a true helpmate for man."
Mother Angelica"From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains."
Francois Rabelais"People do not lack strength; they lack will."
Victor Hugo"Silence is a source of great strength."
Lao Tzu"Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance."
Virgil"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast."
Charles Dickens"When you're playing upside down, it takes twice the strength."
Tommy Lee"Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines."
Paul Brunton"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"
Eleanor Roosevelt"The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city's biggest strength, and it is Toronto's unique strength."
Anthony Bourdain"As hard as it is, owning who you are and knowing what you want is the only sure path to affirmation... I want women to know they can get out of any situation if they return to their core source of strength: themselves."
Ashley Graham"My being a black woman is not a deficit. It is a strength. Because I could not be where I am had I not overcome so many other barriers. Which means you know I'm relentless, you know I'm persistent, and you know I'm smart."
Stacey Abrams"Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong. -Catherine Zeta"
Jones"The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way."
Robert Kiyosaki"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Samuel Johnson"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength."
Betty Friedan"I think the reason why strong women have such a powerful impact is that you've got the strength of a man with the heart and sensitivity of a woman."
Emilia Clarke"We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld"Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character."
Arnold Palmer"I wish I'd known that apologizing is a sign of strength. I had the impression that if you apologize, it's a sign of weakness. I kind of picked up the message from my father, 'Real men don't apologize. You just do your best, and if you happen to hurt some people, that's their fault. You just go on. Don't apologize. That's a sign of weakness.'"
Gary Chapman"The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less."
Arthur Miller"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"Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength."
Charles Lindbergh"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity."
Albert Schweitzer"Every burden is a blessing."
Walt Kelly"Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away."
Dag Hammarskjold"It's never too late to reclaim your inner diva and reclaim your inner strength."
Michelle Visage"Safety and security of women and children will determine the well-being and strength of our nations."
Rajnath Singh"The true measure of strength is through a squat and deadlift."
Mark Henry"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves."
Leon Trotsky"One of the pillar ideas of how CrossFit thinks of physical fitness is how competent an individual is at cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed, coordination, accuracy, agility, and balance."
Rich Froning Jr."My family is my strength and my weakness."
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan"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"The core of my life is Islam, my religion. Without that, I have no strength, no belief in God or in myself."
Naseem Hamed"Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground."
Pope Paul VI"London's greatest strength is our diversity, and it's wonderful to see Londoners celebrating our capital's different traditions, determined to stand up to division."
Sadiq Khan"The strength of brand loyalty begins with how your product makes people feel."
Jay Samit"If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me."
Charles Spurgeon"Don't worry about not fitting in. The things that make people think you're weird are what makes you you, and therefore your greatest strength."
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen"The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country. -Kim Jong"
un"The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength."
Jack Ma"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."
Anais Nin"The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human."
Elizabeth Edwards"He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise."
George Herbert"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure."
Winston Churchill"Nobody picks on a strong man."
Charles Atlas"Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him."
Ellen G. White"I'm God's chosen child. I don't worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I've always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you."
Rohit Shetty"We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations."
Sharon Salzberg"A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head."
Elizabeth I"I know and I've always felt for Canada that we recognize that diversity is a great source of strength."
Justin Trudeau"God has always given me the strength to say what is right."
Rosa Parks"I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed very quickly and very young, all succumbing to a combination of illness and disease and the lack of strength to fight off both."
Isabel Sanford"I was raised in a sort of village. I have a huge family, and I think there is strength in that. It helped me to deal with some of the complications of living in the South because I always felt like I belonged, no matter what."
Chadwick Boseman"If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees."
Hal Borland"My parents, especially my mother, has been my pillar of strength."
Sangram Singh"Each year, Labor Day gives us an opportunity to recognize the invaluable contributions that working men and women make to our nation, our economy and our collective prosperity. It gives us a chance to show gratitude for workers' grit, dedication, ingenuity and strength, which define our nation's character."
Tom Perez"Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life."
Gregory Peck"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Lao Tzu"A good life depends on the strength of our relationships with family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and strangers."
David Lammy"Patience and time do more than strength or passion."
Jean de La Fontaine"Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body."
Ovid"All that I have achieved has been possible not only because of my own strength and perseverance, gained through hardship, but also through other people's support and belief in me."
Clemantine Wamariya"To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need."
L. Lionel Kendrick"The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off."
Zygmunt Bauman"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen."
Thomas Carlyle"Strength and wisdom are not opposing values."
William J. Clinton"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."
Napoleon Bonaparte"The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it."
John Burroughs"Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues."
John Locke"Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have."
Norman Vincent Peale"Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength that's very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who's going to look after his woman."
Stephen Moyer"I'm in love with red. I think it's such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. It's power, there's no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don't. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. They're all magic."
Bryan Batt"We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered."
Simon Sinek"Strength comes in so many forms. Not just the physical strength, but to understand the emotional strength. To have emotional vulnerability, to show that's not a weakness."
Cory Barlog"Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide."
Bill Owens"All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."
James Freeman Clarke"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people."
Franklin D. Roosevelt"We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. -Jean"
Jacques Rousseau"Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength."
Ovid"Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength."
Theodor W. Adorno"When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible."
Mahatma Gandhi"Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society."
Michel Foucault"Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible."
Thomas a Kempis"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
Thomas Paine"I'm a true believer in the strength of teamwork, in the power of dreams."
Julie Payette"Now, when you get a viral infection, what normally happens is it takes days or weeks for your body to fight back at full strength, and that might be too late. When you're pre-immunized, what happens is you have forces in your body pre-trained to recognize and defeat specific foes. So that's really how vaccines work."
Seth Berkley"When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way."
Dalai Lama"One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow."
Louis Navellier"The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers."
Benjamin Banneker"I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them."
Janelle Monae"My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions."
Peter Drucker"The scars in my face are the source of my strength."
Franck Ribery"Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show."
Mignon McLaughlin"They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength."
Curtis Joseph"Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by."
Ovid"Force has no place where there is need of skill."
Herodotus"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong."
Calvin Coolidge"Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem."
Virginia Satir"The soul that is within me no man can degrade."
Frederick Douglass"Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats."
Benjamin Netanyahu"The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success."
Michael Korda"Ronald Reagan succeeded in bringing down the Iron Curtain by showing strength and resolutely standing up to the Soviet Union. President Trump needs to be similarly resolute towards Putin."
Dan Lipinski"My biggest flaw is probably my attention span or lack thereof. And while it might seem contradictory, my biggest strength is my work ethic."
Tom Holland"Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light."
Saint Bernard"Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less; but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart, and with the whole soul; with all his strength and with all his will."
Max Muller"Our passion is our strength."
Billie Joe Armstrong"Early childhood education remains one of the strongest investments we can make in the long-term success of our students and the long-term economic strength of our communities."
Abigail Spanberger"Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field."
Lou Holtz"We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome."
Isabel Allende"There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better."
Mark Shields"When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day."
Chinua Achebe"I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger."
Vijender Singh"Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy."
Nicole Scherzinger"The goal of any true resistance is to affect outcomes, not just to vent. And the only way to affect outcomes and thrive in our lives is to find the eye in the hurricane and act from that place of inner strength."
Arianna Huffington"Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I'm interested in practical strength that's going to help me run, jump, twist, punch."
Jason Statham"Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
Mother Teresa"When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand."
Kevin McCarthy"As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities."
Alan Thicke"One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose."
Jean Anouilh"Perhaps I am stronger than I think."
Thomas Merton"If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues."
T. D. Jakes"This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble."
Ludwig van Beethoven"It takes strength to be kind; it's not a weakness."
Daniel Lubetzky"Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was competing with other schools. I did everything: running, volleyball, basketball, soccer, Olympic-style gymnastics, and more! My history with sports gave me good concentration, focus, strength, and motivation to stay healthy."
Izabel Goulart"My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength."
Michael Jordan"The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization."
James Cash Penney"Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation."
Debbie Ford"Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don't know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I'll get it."
Janis Joplin"Jimmy Fallon's strengths are that he's fun, and he's good at impressions, and he's musically inclined. And my strength is that I'm a joke writer, but I also have no filter, and I think that that's not a talent per se, but it's just a thing about myself that I have found that people like about what I do."
Nikki Glaser"Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character."
Les Brown"I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity."
Michelle Obama"I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism."
Narendra Modi"The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves."
Rudy Giuliani"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."
Woodrow Wilson"The awareness of our own strength makes us modest."
Paul Cezanne"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."
Helen Keller"It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless."
Giacomo Casanova"Strength training is a fantastic microcosm for a man's life: pushing yourself through discomfort, every single day, is the only way to make measurable progress. It's one of the few ways to grow as a man."
Steven Crowder"The puma... the cat... is not just about power and speed and strength... but it is also a very elegant animal. That's what we've tried to reflect in our products."
Jochen Zeitz"Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud."
Russell Brand"It wasn't until my girlfriend, photographer Jennifer Rovero, took hundreds of pictures of me as I recovered from my amputations that things started to change. The process was a sort of therapy for me, which Jennifer coined as 'photo therapy.' I grew to see the beauty and strength in myself and my journey through the lens of her camera."
Lauren Wasser"My inner strength comes from my friends. I have a very close group of friends and family, and we all help each other through our dark times."
Kathy Bates"Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace."
Alexis Carrel"The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character."
Arnold Schwarzenegger"Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly."
Lawrence G. Lovasik"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."
Booker T. Washington"Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors."
Clarissa Pinkola Estes"The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God."
Ellen G. White"Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know."
Charles Kingsley"The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity."
Ruby Dee"Over the years, golf has evolved from a leisurely game of stick and ball into a competitive sport for highly skilled athletes. Players not only spend countless hours fine-tuning technique on the course, but also improving strength, stability, and endurance in the gym."
Paige Spiranac"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"I always trained with men, and always had to use all my power and strength to win in the gym. When I tapped men in training, I thought if I finished a man, the fight will be easy. But that's not how it works and not how I should think. A fight is completely different, and that became an issue."
Amanda Nunes"We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it."
Alain Robert"Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America."
Gary Locke"People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of."
Dennis Prager"Victoria's Secret is really about celebrating women and what they stand for: the strength."
Cara Delevingne"I was born and raised in China, Mandarin is my first language, and I definitely know America. I think that will be my strength, to try and bring the two worlds together."
Chloe Zhao"The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage."
John Muir"No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them."
Alana Stewart"Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."
Henry Ward Beecher"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection."
Thomas Paine"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."
John Muir"There will always be obstacles and challenges that stand in your way. Building mental strength will help you develop resilience to those potential hazards so you can continue on your journey to success."
Amy Morin"In the midst of the heartbreak and wreckage of 9-11, the world also witnessed what is America's greatest strength. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, first responders and local residents worked around the clock to rescue and care for those injured."
Dan Coats"You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities."
Steve Case"I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine."
James Hetfield"Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength."
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam"I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness."
Ossie Davis"The basis for all human relationships and where we derive our greatest strength and power, trust is single-handedly the most powerful source of positive energy and, once in place, unlocks a freedom and peace to explore."
Angela Ahrendts"My biggest inspiration is my family. The support they give me, the strength they give me is something that is very rare and special. Each singer is inspired by different things, my strength comes from my family and soul."
Anuel AA"What is a superhero? They're supposed to represent hope, opportunity, and strength for everybody."
Aldis Hodge"In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength."
Robert E. Lee"A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe."
Wayne Dyer"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."
Leo Rosten"Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause."
Victor Hugo"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed."
Vincent Van Gogh"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."
Vince Lombardi"Solitude is the strength of being alone. It's where we become our best company."
Jay Shetty"Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two."
John Cheever"I am deeply honored by the trust the board has placed in me to lead Duke Energy. I have a high degree of confidence in the strength of our company's leadership and dedicated employees."
Lynn Good"My strength would be my honesty and my passion towards my work."
Sushant Singh Rajput"I found strength in what hurt me. And in my family - that's my strength as well. I'm truly grateful to be hurt as many times as I have, because I'm happy!"
Selena Gomez"Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects."
F. Sionil Jose"I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building."
Ian Mcewan"We get strength and encouragement from watching children."
Hayao Miyazaki"I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time."
Novak Djokovic"Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own. -Chiang Kai"
shek"Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow."
Dwight D. Eisenhower"Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation."
Gordon B. Hinckley"If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage. -Jean"
Bertrand Aristide"In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself."
Laurence Sterne"The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't."
Arthur L. Herman"Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength."
Phil Jackson"Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure."
George Sand"I realized that my strength was being different."
Betsey Johnson"Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used."
Richard E. Byrd"Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that."
Wladimir Klitschko"Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible."
Charles Spurgeon"I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength."
Sextus Propertius"There's an entire generation of male strength and endurance athletes, even recreational lifters, who have never gotten off the ephedrine-caffeine-aspirin stack. The process of getting off stimulants is really horrible."
Tim Ferriss"I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days."
Cristiano Ronaldo"Physical strength in a woman - that's what I am."
Tina Turner"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"Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future."
Blanka Vlasic"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts."
Blaise Pascal"It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer"I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage."
Elizabeth Taylor"You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it."
Mary J. Blige"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business."
Jesse Ventura"The fact that societies are becoming increasingly multi-ethnic, multicultural, and multi-religious is good. Diversity is a strength, not a weakness."
Antonio Guterres"No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox"It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward."
Patti Davis"Stand and fight for those who are not weak but have yet to discover the strength that the evil of this world has done its best to conceal."
Logic"Gene Roddenberry continually reminded us that the Star Trek Enterprise was a metaphor for starship Earth. And the strength in this starship came from its diversity, coming together and working in concert as a team. That is the strength of our countries, Canada and the United States. We are nations of diversity."
George Takei"Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce."
Cesare Pavese"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind."
William Hazlitt"Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the First Commandment: Do not have any gods before me."
John Piper"Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has."
Mary J. Blige"I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea."
Thor Heyerdahl"As a boss, as a CEO, as a creative director, as a chef, I've learned that failure will always come. I've learned to give it a big squeeze, smile at it, humble myself to it and then use it as a springboard to send me on my way to strength, success, and fulfillment."
Christina Tosi"I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap."
Ani DiFranco"Believing in yourself and having confidence gives you outer strength."
Nikki Bella"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."
Vincent Van Gogh"The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology. -Kim Jong"
un"God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers."
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam"He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity."
William Samuel Johnson"Power over others is weakness disguised as strength."
Eckhart Tolle"The type of cuisine I do, especially after being on 'Iron Chef' for several years, is a lot of global cuisine. My strength has always been Mediterranean cuisine across the board from Morocco, Spain, Italy, Greece, France, but I think now I'm doing a lot of very different cuisines all the time."
Cat Cora"Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground."
Frank Lloyd Wright"It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times."
Bindi Irwin"In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'"
Jimmy Carter"There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength."
Pat Riley"My favorite off-mountain workout is the long run. It's great for building endurance and strength."
Jimmy Chin"The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother."
Charles Dickens"Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled."
Harry Emerson Fosdick"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves."
Dale Carnegie"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person."
Albert Einstein"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."
Louis Pasteur"You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'"
Mariah Carey"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."
Barbara Kingsolver"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"It's not all about strength, there is so much more involved, getting the horse into a rhythm, getting the horse to try for you, it's being patient and I'm so glad to win Melbourne Cup and hopefully, it will help female jockeys from now on to get more of a go."
Michelle Payne"Kindness is more than a virtue. It is a source of strength."
Vivek Murthy"It is a strength of mine to not really bother too much when people have their opinions, especially negative opinions."
Virgil van Dijk"It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman."
John Eldredge"Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball I'm definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out."
Steven Yeun"My natural abilities weren't necessarily brute power and strength. They were more about the ability to endure and not give up."
Tommy Caldwell"My strength is translating emotion because I'm such a feeler."
Selena Gomez"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony."
Benjamin Britten"I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God."
Tony Dungy"Having a superpower has nothing to do with the ability to fly or jump, or superhuman strength. The truest superpowers are the ones we all possess: willpower, integrity, and most importantly, courage."
Jason Reynolds"History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity."
Haile Selassie"The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others."
Robert Green Ingersoll"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
Thomas Jefferson"Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home."
Henry Drummond"If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come."
Lawrence Welk"Empathy seems to be seen as a weakness. We condition people to withdraw it to succeed. But really, it needs to be re-seen as a strength again if there is to be any kind of hope in the world."
Matt Bellamy"Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed."
A. N. Wilson"With the proper motivation, you can do anything. I was just a poor kid that ate pork and beans out of a can and apple sauce. I went from rags to riches. But it does take a lot of determination, inner strength, drive, and discipline."
Lee Haney"Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear."
Christina Baker Kline"Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success."
Zig Ziglar"What gives me strength and inspires me is never to go back to where I once was. My inspiration is to see my son as he admires me and knowing that I have someone there who depends on me. I have to do things right. I have to move forward."
Anuel AA"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies."
Robert Louis Stevenson"When you talk about peace through strength, what you're talking about is the concept of deterrence."
Chris Gibson"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer."
Winston Churchill"Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession."
Mahatma Gandhi"Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you."
Mike Murdock"Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy."
Felicia Hemans"The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them."
Gene Roddenberry"There is power in unity. There is power in strength."
Bradley Beal"I have been lucky to meet some incredible people who do not possess what you would traditionally class as power, but through their charisma, passion, and strength of character, they are able to achieve things that 'richer or more powerful people' could only dream of."
Holly Branson"I'm a true believer in the strength of teamwork, in the power of dreams, and in the absolute necessity of a support structure."
Julie Payette"Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic."
William E. Gladstone"I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty... break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more."
John McCain"The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods."
Thorstein Veblen"In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times."
Virat Kohli"The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him."
Garrett Fort"Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it."
William Shenstone"I would just say that human beings are stronger together. Relying on someone else is not a sign of weakness; it shows strength that you're able to accept that you need help."
Dove Cameron"Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Though it gives you the power to love someone more than yourself, it becomes difficult to live when you lose something you are attached to. Even when we have lost, we should go beyond that and get truly attached to someone. Loving someone truly is the most beautiful feeling."
Shahid Kapoor"Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day."
Thalia"Indian democracy's greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics."
Atal Bihari Vajpayee"My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all."
Gloria Estefan"There is great strength in vulnerability, as it takes courage to push through the fear and share one's true self with others. In music, that vulnerability really speaks to listeners as it connects with their own hearts."
Anoushka Shankar"Disappointment builds character and strength."
Nafessa Williams"Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don't be intimidated. Read your Bible. That's really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God's name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever."
Margaret Keane"As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union."
George Mason"It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'"
George Michael"We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God."
David Brainerd"We acquire the strength we have overcome."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. -Elisabeth Kubler"
Ross"My intensity is my greatest strength. It's also my greatest weakness."
Jeff Van Gundy"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do."
Elbert Hubbard"Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent."
Winston Churchill"When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid."
Audre Lorde"Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also."
Marcus Aurelius"I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind."
Alexis Arguello"America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal."
Ernest Istook"If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life."
Hudson Taylor"I'm very proud of my heritage and the blood that runs through my veins. I take a lot of strength from that."
Robert Whittaker"Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel."
Tryon Edwards"There's something that's sexy about a guy who has the strength to kill somebody, but is also vulnerable enough to be in love. It's just those two sides - like, I don't know why, but women for some reason aren't attracted to normal guys, like, guys who are in between."
Evan Peters"I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar."
David Gilmour"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"God's grace is amazing! We're saved by grace - God's undeserved favor - and we live by grace, which is also God's power in our lives to do what we could never do in our own strength. And it's all because God is love, and He loves us unconditionally, constantly and completely."
Joyce Meyer"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."
Sigmund Freud"Most people give Kennedy a passing grade, a good grade on the Cuban Missile Crisis handling, but what they don't realize, if he had had strength, if he had showed strength before, there would never have been a Cuban Missile Crisis."
Louie Gohmert"I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work."
Wayne Gretzky"People are deeply interested in rewriting the established narratives and challenging what we see as the norm in every way. We want to see a new definition of beauty and sexy. We want to see different people look vulnerable and show strength and redefine what it means to be strong."
Winston Duke"All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice."
Theodore Bikel"Building mental strength is about regulating your emotions, managing your thoughts, and behaving in a positive manner, despite your circumstances."
Amy Morin"Strength lies in differences, not in similarities."
Stephen Covey"Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility."
Samantha Stosur"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength."
Richard L. Evans"There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges."
John C. Mather"Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same."
Angelina Jolie"We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure."
Cesar Chavez"The future belongs to us, because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment, we have the resourcefulness, and we have the strength of our people to share the dream across Africa of clean water for all."
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf"Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty."
John Ruskin"The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength."
Robert Shea"I bring a lot of energy and passion to what I do. Plus, I've had some weird feats of superhuman strength!"
John Cena"Yoga is equal parts strength, flexibility, balance, and endurance."
Mandy Ingber"I see myself as a survivor, and I'm not ashamed to say I'm a survivor. To me, survivor implies strength, implies that I have been through something and I made it out the other side."
Elizabeth Smart"Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men."
Alfred Jarry"Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions."
Samantha Stosur"I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me."
Paul Watson"Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength."
Jane Byrne"Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force."
Franklin D. Roosevelt"My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?"
Barbara Corcoran"Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars."
Brian Tracy"I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do."
Joan Jett"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
Unknown"What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other."
Barbra Streisand"Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own."
Madame de Stael"Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy."
James E. Faust"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."
Confucius"We had to forge an alliance of strength based not on colour but on commitment to the total abolition of apartheid and oppression; we would seek allies, of whatever colour, as long as they were totally agreed on our liberation aims."
Oliver Tambo"The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world."
Bill Gates"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"I have the strength to endure it all."
Moshe Dayan"But when I lived as a monk, solitude is often spoken of as a strength. And so the first thing I'd recommend is finding one thing that you can do every single day that brings you joy. It may be reading a book you love. It may be looking at a beautiful piece of art."
Jay Shetty"India's pluralism is its greatest strength and its greatest example to the world."
Ram Nath Kovind"There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm."
Beverly Sills"I believe to have shown that, at times, the impossible can become possible. It all depends on how much each and every one of us believes in our dreams, in our strength, and in our determination."
Roberto Baggio"The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength."
Vladimir Putin"To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness."
Zsa Zsa Gabor"Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength."
James E. Faust"My life will not be defined by a single political campaign. Those will come and go. But what has driven me to run for elected office in the past still drives me today: the knowledge that heroes do walk among us with tremendous strength and power."
Darryl Glenn"A strong economy is the source of national strength."
Yoshihide Suga"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
Mother Teresa"Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn't let them do it."
Ben Carson"Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust."
Marquis de Sade"Now I'm strong: I can run fast, I can lift weights, and that in itself is quite empowering, to have that physical strength. It changes my whole mental attitude. -Esme Creed"
Miles"When I look at a woman through my camera, I see her with complete admiration and appreciation of her beauty, strength, and power - and that's how I do my best to represent her."
Amanda de Cadenet"Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power."
Vernon Howard"America's greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress."
John McCain"Public corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority. The threat - which involves the corruption of local, state, and federally elected, appointed, or contracted officials - strikes at the heart of government, eroding public confidence and undermining the strength of our democracy."
James Comey"From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That's what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest."
Jane Goodall"Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength."
Samina Baig"The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness."
Paul P. Harris"I learned that there is an inner strength that blossoms when one cleanses themselves by processing and attempting to comprehend their situation and/or experience. Writing became my therapy!"
Dominique Jackson"Whatever I do I will do on my own strength."
Raj Thackeray"We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves."
Rudolf Steiner"Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?"
Nelson Mandela"Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness."
Amos Bronson Alcott"Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength."
Don King"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"Being a strongman is a real test of functional strength. What can you pick up, carry and how fast can you move it. It's not a weight room strength, it takes brute strength and power to lift, carry and pull all types objects from fire engines, Mack trucks, transport planes and large stones."
Brian Shaw"I grew up in Nacogdoches, Texas... raised by my grandmother. We were very poor and had no indoor plumbing. My grandmother was a very religious woman, though, and she gave me a lot of faith and inner strength."
Alana Stewart"I tell my daughter every morning, 'Now, what are the two most important parts of you?' And she says, 'My head and my heart.' Because that's what I've learned in the foxhole: What gets you through life is strength of character and strength of spirit and love."
Viola Davis"I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me."
Harriet Tubman"The serenity prayer, 'God grant me the strength to accept...' That's a prayer that's actually in my car. I say it every day."
Lauren London"I am not someone like A. B. de Villiers, Gayle, or Dhoni. I don't have that much power. I have to use my brain to manipulate the field and stick to my strength, which is to hit through the lines."
Rohit Sharma"We must keep both our femininity and our strength."
Indra Devi"Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart."
Steven Cojocaru"Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation."
Lal Bahadur Shastri"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."
Corrie Ten Boom"Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left."
Bobby Bowden"Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us."
Guy Finley"Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability."
Ho Chi Minh"I don't rely on the strength of my image."
JPEGMAFIA"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
Anais Nin"We gain the strength of the temptation we resist."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity."
Cesare Pavese"The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born."
Malala Yousafzai"You're blessed if you have the strength to work."
Mahalia Jackson"When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."
Audre Lorde"I do a lot of free weights in the gym, with lots of squats, lunges and push-pull exercises to help develop strength and power."
Joe Root"Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work helps, but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely."
Deepika Padukone"Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg."
Dwight D. Eisenhower"It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize."
Stephen Covey"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
Eleanor Roosevelt"That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."
William Wordsworth"You must all be aware that modern war is not a mere matter of military operations. It involves the whole strength and all the resources of the nation. Not only soldiers, but also all citizens without exception, take part. -Chiang Kai"
shek"It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ."
Ellen G. White"Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while."
Jack Welch"Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive."
Robert Kiyosaki"You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have."
J. R. R. Tolkien"My father has been a constant source of love and strength in my life."
Hunter Biden"On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity. -Yi So"
Yeon"I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet."
Carry Nation"To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor."
Ezra Taft Benson"What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God."
Rick Warren"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
George Orwell"Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else."
Sara Blakely"Sometimes your greatest strength can emerge as a weakness if the context changes."
Harsha Bhogle"Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses."
Maggie Kuhn"Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength."
Billy Graham"I believe in blood, soil, and honour; family, homeland, and hamingja; strength, traditions, and courage."
Varg Vikernes"I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength."
Elisabeth Shue"I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect."
Melanie Griffith"Draw great strength from your family and give in turn to those who come after you."
Janet Reno"Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage."
John W. Gardner"I defend my position. I am not Messi. I am not Ronaldo. I have something else. I am not the quickest, like Walcott. I have to be clever and read situations. If I didn't have that, I wouldn't be able to play Premier League. Everybody has a strength - this is mine."
Toby Alderweireld"You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men."
Benjamin Disraeli"For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core. A take-charge kind of guy who has his own inner strength and a strong sense of right and wrong - which might not dovetail with the conventional wisdom. I mean, he might bend the law if he thinks the ends justify the means."
Ruth Glick"I have the people behind me and the people are my strength."
Huey Newton"You find strength in your moments of weakness. -Kim Zolciak"
Biermann"From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength."
Cesar Chavez"My strength is that I'm an empath."
Catriona Gray"There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can 'be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough' are not true. They are fairy tales."
Jocko Willink"A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others."
Indira Gandhi"Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength."
Charles Caleb Colton"My mother is a strong woman. Her strength comes from being tested by life's unpredictability. It comes from soldiering on for her children, even when she might rather have given up. I know it hasn't always come easily, but I also know it's her greatest gift."
Matt Lauer"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power."
Lao Tzu"When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way."
Sam Raimi"We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. America's lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns."
Ben Nelson"Garage-rock eccentric King Khan may be from Montreal, but his heart is almost a thousand miles away, throbbing from Atlanta to Castle City, Mont., until it hits cardiac arrest in Kalamazoo. Khan and His Shrines warn that this so-called 'Land of the Freak' is where only the strong survive, but it's a strength that can't be measured in muscle."
Anthony Fantano"Having the strength to tune out negativity and remain focused on what I want gives me the will and confidence to achieve my goals."
Gisele Bundchen"Along with my will power, it was my parents who stood by me like a pillar of strength in my most challenging phase of life."
Sudha Chandran"In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result."
James Allen"Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health."
Dalai Lama"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."
Maya Angelou"Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance."
Lisa Murkowski"I'm taking each day one day at a time, and building up my strength and endurance. It's crazy because it takes no time at all to lose everything you have and then so much time to gain it back."
Michelle McCool"I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition."
Jim Brown"Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown. -Li Ka"
shing"Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it."
Joan Didion"The strength people need to proceed along the path of human development can come only from the spiritual worlds."
Rudolf Steiner"My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system; strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density; core strength exercise for a stable mid-section; and stretching to maintain mobility."
Samantha Stosur"Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities."
Narendra Modi"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time."
Anna Freud"I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward."
Isabel Allende"Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry."
Jack Herer"We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future."
John Hoeven"I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures."
Pierce Brosnan