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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
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
— Corrie Ten Boom
I like criticism. It makes you strong.
— LeBron James
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.
— Stephen Covey
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
— Marge Piercy
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
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
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
— Leo Buscaglia
Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
— Ho Chi Minh
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
Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
— J. C. Watts
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
— Audre Lorde
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
— Lao Tzu
Even cowards can endure hardship only the brave can endure suspense. 
— Mignon McLaughlin
The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
— Benjamin Banneker
Right now, when we're hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been - and will always be - our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.
— Michelle Obama
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
Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.
— Steven Cojocaru
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
If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
— Francis Bacon
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
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.
— Rumi
As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
— Mike Tyson
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
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
He who conquers others is strong He who conquers himself is mighty. 
— Lao Tzu
Problems are not the problem coping is the problem. 
— Virginia Satir
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
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
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
— Rosa Parks
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
A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.
— Sylvester Stallone
We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.
— Josefa Iloilo
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
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
— Arnold Palmer
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
— Cesar Chavez
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
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
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
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
— John Cheever
Heroism is endurance for one moment more.
— George F. Kennan
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
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
— Chinua Achebe
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
— George W. Bush
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
— Calvin Coolidge
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
— Billy Corgan
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
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
— William Ellery Channing
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
It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.
— Patti Davis
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
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
— Henry Miller
But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.
— Jason Mraz
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
— Mike Murdock
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
They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.
— Curtis Joseph
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
— Hal Borland
There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
— Pat Riley
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
In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.
— Grace Paley
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
Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such.
— Ellen Key
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
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
— Eric Hoffer
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
— Peter Drucker
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
The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
— Garrett Fort
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
— Booker T. Washington
When you're playing upside down, it takes twice the strength.
— Tommy Lee
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
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
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
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 single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
— Tecumseh
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
— Thomas Paine
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
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
— Winston Churchill
Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
— Lal Bahadur Shastri
What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.
— Winona LaDuke
Insincerity is always weakness sincerity even in error is strength. 
— George Henry Lewes
Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.
— William Moulton Marston
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
— John Ruskin
What's so lovely about Wonder Woman is yes, she has the strength and power of a goddess, but she has the heart and mind of a human. So I play her as I think a woman like me would act in the situations she's going through. You treat her as a normal woman who happens to be fantastic and almighty.
— Gal Gadot
A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you can find strength in the balm of Christ. It will help you meet the heartaches and challenges with faith and serenity.
— James E. Faust
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
Sometimes your greatest strength can emerge as a weakness if the context changes.
— Harsha Bhogle
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
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
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline simulated fear postulates courage simulated weakness postulates strength. 
— Lao Tzu
My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
— Marge Piercy
It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.
— Carson Kressley
My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: 'This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.'
— Prince William
To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.
— Tony Dungy
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
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
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
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
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
— Giacomo Casanova
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 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
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
— Blaise Pascal
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
— John Burroughs
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
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
I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
— Black Elk
When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our strength. The real strength of our nation comes from our people - not our buildings.
— Michael Enzi
Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.
— Jennifer Chiaverini
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
— Anais Nin
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible not to run away. 
— Dag Hammarskjold
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
— Samuel Smiles
Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
— Unknown
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
— Jean de La Fontaine
My strength is my humility. When you are humble, people like you.
— Mohammad Azharuddin
Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.
— Russell Brand
I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.
— Charlotte Rampling
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
Physical strength in a woman - that's what I am.
— Tina Turner
When you talk about peace through strength, what you're talking about is the concept of deterrence.
— Chris Gibson
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
— Pearl S. Buck
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
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
— Anna Freud
He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
— Ben Jonson
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
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
As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.
— Frederic Chopin
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
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
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
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
Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.
— Brad Henry
I've always enjoyed singing and can't recall a time in my life where I wasn't singing. I'm most grateful for the strength I have in that department. I have a lot of bad habits on the guitar which limits my playing ability. But I get a little better each year.
— Jason Mraz
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
An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.
— Stokely Carmichael
May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.
— Swami Vivekananda
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
— Gene Roddenberry
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 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
The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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
One of the primary purposes of civilization - and certainly its primary strength - is the guarantee that family life can flourish in unity, peace, and order.
— Robert Kennedy
Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.
— Philip Sidney
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
A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.
— Matthew Perry
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
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
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
— Maggie Kuhn
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
— Lewis Carroll
I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility.
— Mark-Paul Gosselaar
'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
— Thomas Fuller
Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.
— Sid Waddell
Our veterans and service members are known for their strength, but when they're recovering from an operation or receiving emergency care, that strength can depend on seeing a spouse, talking with the kids or just knowing that loved ones are by their side. It isn't difficult to imagine what a difference keeping families together can make.
— John Delaney
I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, 'It's the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.' I've thought about that so many times in my life when things didn't go right.
— Bonnie Hunt
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.
— Christian Lous Lange
The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.
— Adam Savage
When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.
— Audre Lorde
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
— Euripides
Life asks not merely what you can do it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled. 
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
— Herodotus
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
— John Locke
True strength is delicate.
— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Endure and persist this pain will turn to good by and by. 
— Ovid
In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
— Robert E. Lee
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
— W. H. Auden
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
What is to give light must endure burning.
— Anton Wildgans
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
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
The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.
— James Cash Penney
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
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
Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I'm drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.
— Beyonce Knowles
Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.
— Charles Lindbergh
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
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
— Robert Henri
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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
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
Anyone can wear my dresses. They will look good on any figure, no matter what shape you are. I want to celebrate a woman's inner strength, to inspire real women and make them feel confident and beautiful.
— Tadashi Shoji
My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone. 
— Missy Elliott
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
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
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
— Ruby Dee
Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.
— Georgette Mosbacher
When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation.
— Dhani Jones
Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day.
— Mattie Stepanek
We have to nurture our young women and understand the beauty and the strength of being a woman. It's kind of a catch-22: Strength in women isn't appreciated, and vulnerability in women isn't appreciated. It's like, 'What the hell do you do?' What you do is you don't allow anyone to dictate who you are.
— Jada Pinkett Smith
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
— Eckhart Tolle
Being a caretaker is, and never will be, an easy job; in fact, it is that hardest job in the world and many times a thankless job. You have to be the pillar of strength even when you feel like you are crumbling to pieces inside.
— Jenna Morasca
I think that we should remember that social change can happen when people join together with some strength.
— Haskell Wexler
A champion's strength comes from never being contented.
— Stephan El Shaarawy
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
— Ovid
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm. 
— Jean Paul
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
— Paul Cezanne
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
— Barbra Streisand
I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.
— Evita Peron
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
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
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
— Francis Quarles
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
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
— William J. Clinton
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 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
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
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
— William Samuel Johnson
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
— Sextus Propertius
Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.
— William Moulton Marston
I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.
— Jane D. Hull
At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.
— Vint Cerf
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
My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders.
— Miguel Indurain
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.
— Shemar Moore
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
— Harold Bloom
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
— William Shakespeare
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
— Elizabeth I
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
Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.
— Jennifer Granholm
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
— E. O. Wilson
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
— Queen Elizabeth II
Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it's a total body workout for your legs and abs, and works your heart and core unlike any other sport.
— Samantha Stosur
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
When you have a certain fitness projection, it's going to give you an advantage. Having strength, stamina and speed is important because I'm working with dogs who can kill me.
— Cesar Millan
It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.
— Xenophanes
India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, religious and economic freedoms that enrich the lives of all citizens. India is not only the world's largest democracy; it is also a secular, pluralistic society committed to inclusive growth.
— Henry Paulson
I'm not against working out. It's just not effective for weight loss. I like strength training to tone and firm the body so you look tight. But working out just makes you hungrier.
— Jorge Cruise
The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as an eagle. I witnessed, close up, effortlessness and lightness combined with strength, precision and determination.
— Norman Foster
All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength.
— Diane von Furstenberg
When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.
— Henri Nouwen
I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.
— Isabel Allende
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 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 great American tradition is one of pluralism, not exclusive secularism. The strength of our country is reflected in the contributions that we all make to the common good.
— Donald Wuerl
If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In the end, it depends on the strength of ideas in each piece.
— Elizabeth Peyton
Our responsibility is to learn to draw upon the power of the Atonement. Otherwise, we walk through mortality relying solely on our own strength.
— Sheri L. Dew
Part of my advantage is that my strength is economic forecasting, but that only works in free markets, when markets are smarter than people. That's how I started. I watched the stock market, how equities reacted to change in levels of economic activity, and I could understand how price signals worked and how to forecast them.
— Stanley Druckenmiller
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
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
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
When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.
— Kevin McCarthy
I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
— Tom Landry
Obviously, swimming is my strength, but I'm also good at fencing.
— Elodie Clouvel
Germany's strength lies largely in the fact that the Federal Republic is a center of industry and that it's an export nation.
— Angela Merkel
It's a marathon, not a sprint. I actually feel like I come to work stronger when I've had a little time on the weekend to step away from it and enjoy my family and other things. I come back energized. If people think they're going to work 24/7, week in and week out, they're not bringing their full strength to the table.
— Mary Barra
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
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
We believe with all the strength of our spirit that mankind has a supreme, primary and irreplaceable need which can be satisfied only through Jesus Christ, the first-born among men, the head of the new humanity, in whom each individual reaches full self-realization.
— Pope Paul VI
Evolution is ultimately why cancer is so deadly. Take two biopsies from different sides of a tumor, and they can be genetically very different, making it that much harder to fight. Variation is the toolbox of evolution, and this variation gives cancer strength.
— Kyle Hill
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
Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.
— Lisa Murkowski
This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.
— Frederick Law Olmsted
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
The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.
— Daniel Nathans
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
— Claiborne Pell
People do not lack strength they lack will. 
— Victor Hugo
I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.
— Melissa Etheridge
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
— Baruch Spinoza
The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.
— Mitt Romney
We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.
— Jennifer Granholm
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
I firmly believe in prayer. It is possible to reach out and tap the unseen power which gives strength and anchor in time of need.
— Ezra Taft Benson
There were times when chemo would eat my body, but I told myself that I have the strength and courage to win and come out stronger.
— Yuvraj Singh
When I was younger, my feet would hurt a lot, but you build up calluses and strength, and you don't feel as much pain there. But then again, it's a give and take. The older you get, you may feel pain in your back or your hips.
— Misty Copeland
One thing I learned about Gordon Brown is you've got to have the strength to just get in there and take him on. When you first hear him spouting his statistics and boasting about his record, it can be quite intimidating. But over time, shadowing him, I just realised that a lot of it was rubbish; a lot of it was baloney.
— George Osborne
How can we love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength if we must separate our minds from our faith? Such a separation violates the very meaning of faith.
— Hugh Ross
The strength people need to proceed along the path of human development can come only from the spiritual worlds.
— Rudolf Steiner
When you're strong physically, it improves your strength in every other facet of your life. You're more confident, your self-esteem is higher, and your self image is better.
— Jillian Michaels
You have to know your strengths and weaknesses. If you don't have a particular strength, you need to go out and replace that.
— Tilman J. Fertitta
The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
— Sam Houston
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
— Orlando Bloom
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
— Blaise Pascal
I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.
— Ariel Sharon
We should have imposed new sanctions in 2013 and maintained the strength of our negotiating position, which is what brought Iran to the table in the first place.
— Tom Cotton
I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America. 
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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
I testify that inspiration can be the spring for every person's hope, guidance, and strength. It is one of the magnified treasures of life. It involves coming to the infinite knowledge of God.
— James E. Faust
I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.
— Mandy Patinkin
From the age of seven, I basically started practicing my hand-eye and foot coordination, balance, strength, endurance, discipline, and mental toughness three days a week until I was about 15.
— Ashton Eaton