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My mother has always instilled in us that we should carry ourselves with dignity despite the horror that came with the civil war. She also taught us that where you come from is very important because that's what makes you who you are. So for me, whatever I've gone through had profoundly shaped me; it has given me strength and unwavering faith.
— Alek Wek
I think the key to beautiful, frizz-free curls in the summer is to keep hair healthy. It's really the strength of your hair that causes frizz, not humidity, so it's really important to me that I keep my curls strong and moisturized to protect my hair from breakage and frizz. It definitely gives my whole summer look a new life!
— Jillian Hervey
I can make all the throws. My mental side is a strength as far as understanding defense schemes and our playbook. I'm able to change plays when needed. I think that sets me apart.
— Carson Wentz
Living according to the basic gospel principles will bring power, strength, and spiritual self-reliance into the lives of all Latter-day Saints.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Then when I went to Iraq and saw the strength and character the men and women in our military service exhibit every day and their belief in what they're doing, I knew I wanted to get that on film and share it with everyone. They are my inspiration.
— Joe Nichols
Diversity is valued, and it is prized. We learn to appreciate each other and each other's struggles. From diversity, we draw our enormous and our lasting strength.
— Janet Reno
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
I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction - especially autobiographies and biographies. I've read 'Long Walk to Freedom' by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I'm totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years.
— Richard Branson
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
— Jonathan Swift
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
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
— Walter Scott
The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.
— John Marshall
The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.
— Robert Gottlieb
The Clinton strength was to play to people without a college education. High school people. That's how you win elections.
— Stephen Bannon
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
Jay Z is building a range of businesses just on the strength of his brand. Lady Gaga has formed really interesting partnerships. Justin Bieber and his manager Scooter Braun are investing in a number of different companies and also promoting them in many ways.
— Anita Elberse
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
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
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
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
— Queen Elizabeth II
From the preemptive strike that destroyed Egypt's air force during the Six-Day War, to the daring raid on Entebbe, to using all available means to slow the Iranian nuclear program, Israelis have combined strength with ingenuity to keep the country's enemies at bay.
— Ted Deutch
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
I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
— Elizabeth Taylor
I'm very sensitive about the fact that there's not a lot of good work for women in cinema that also deals with strong characters. But 'strong character' doesn't mean 'masculine character' - but something that finds the strength in femininity and the beauty in femininity. And something that says you can find femininity in men in some way.
— Denis Villeneuve
We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.
— Narendra Modi
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
When the storms of life come, if they come to me personally, to my family or to the world, I want to be strong enough to stand and be a strength to somebody else, be shelter for somebody else.
— Anne Graham Lotz
I treasure my meetings with individuals affected by autism - parents, children, teachers and friends. Their strength is inspiring. They deserve all possible opportunities for education, employment and integration.
— Ban Ki-moon
Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
— Drew Barrymore
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
I've got a Kanji symbol on my shoulder; it's for my son and means 'strength and power.' I have my son and daughter's names, Dominik and Aalyah, written on the inside of the left and right biceps, too.
— Rey Mysterio
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
— Virgil
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
So many people in the world would rather stay in a situation that's painful but familiar because they're comfortable with it. Not a lot of people have the strength or heart to realize when something's not good for them and to turn around and be alone.
— Corey Taylor
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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
It took me a really long time to decide who I want my circle to be and who I want to surround myself with. Once you make that choice, that is where I feel like I have built my strength. This is my life choice. These are the people that make me feel good about me, and that I love and adore and will do anything for.
— Katie Aselton
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
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
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
We get strength and encouragement from watching children.
— Hayao Miyazaki
I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.
— Barbara Corcoran
The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.
— Ellen G. White
I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
— Ani DiFranco
I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?
— Yuvraj Singh
God will give us the strength to be able to handle things. I mean, you can try to do it on your own, and sometimes you can pull off some stuff, but in the long run, it's much easier with Him by our side.
— Bethany Hamilton
Indian democracy's greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics.
— Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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
Strength of mind rests in sobriety for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion. 
— Pythagoras
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
— Wayne Dyer
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
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
— Bainbridge Colby
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
— Ivan Turgenev
When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.
— Stephen Covey
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
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
Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
— Agnes Smedley
If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'
— Mitch Daniels
It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.
— Russell Means
At the gym, I do full-body circuits with low weights and high repetitions, as well as four or five cardio intervals thrown into the mix. I put a lot of emphasis on core strength and flexibility training. I also do a lot of running in my free time. Anytime I can move my cardio outside in the sunshine, I do.
— Jill Wagner
With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.
— Alphonsus Liguori
When what we introduce into the children's world of ideas and feelings is in line with the direction of the developmental forces of a given stage of life, we strengthen the entire developing person in a way that remains a source of strength throughout that person's life.
— Rudolf Steiner
Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves giving up too much. But the cross is not as heavy as it appears to be. Through obedience, we acquire much greater strength to carry it.
— James E. Faust
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
Nobody picks on a strong man.
— Charles Atlas
My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.
— Layne Staley
My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
— Katharine Hepburn
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
I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.
— Adriana Trigiani
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.
— Erma Bombeck
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
— Albert Einstein
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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
If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
— Ernest Shackleton
We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.
— John Bacon
I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.
— Huey Newton
I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.
— Black Elk
We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
— Indra Devi
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
— Michel de Montaigne
The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.
— Franz Kafka
The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.
— George W. Bush
Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.
— Naomi Benaron
Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.
— Joseph Nye
The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know.
— Alicia Keys
People shouldn't look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour. That's the marketing, the spin. Life is challenging. But I have courage, strength, and enough good health to see the positive.
— Carmen Dell'Orefice
I talk a lot about strength, faith and love, but I don't ever talk about the fact that I am one of the most sensitive people in my family. That might be the most shocking, because you always see me fighting the good fight, with the strong face on, but I am the most emotional.
— Monica
I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.
— Rene Burri
We all make mistakes, and we all need second chances. For youth in foster care, these mistakes are often purposeful - if not consciously so; a way to test the strength of a bond and establish trust in a new parent.
— Vanessa Diffenbaugh
I bring a lot of energy and passion to what I do. Plus, I've had some weird feats of superhuman strength!
— John Cena
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
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.
— J. Michael Straczynski
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
I collect crystals and gemstones, and I've been collecting them since I was a little girl. They give me positive energy and strength. They make me feel connected to the earth. I cherish them.
— Isabel Lucas
I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
— Octavia Spencer
My strength would be my honesty and my passion towards my work.
— Sushant Singh Rajput
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
— James Dyson
Yoga is at the core of my health and wellness routine even if it's only for 10 to 15 minutes I find it helps me to re-center and to focus as well as improve my overall core strength. 
— Miranda Kerr
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
— John Stuart Mill
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
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
— John F. Kennedy
At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.
— Lee Greenwood
I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!
— Betty White
In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.
— Simon Van Booy
Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expect perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods.
— Bhagat Singh
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
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
— Elbert Hubbard
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
You can train your mental strength just like you train your body. If your body looks fit or ripped, it looks strong, and you can flex your muscles. So, physically, you have a certain strength. Mentally, it's the same thing. You can train your psychological strength.
— Wladimir Klitschko
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
— Oscar Wilde
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts not amid joy. 
— Felicia Hemans
They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.
— Diana Ross
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
— Lillian Hellman
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
— Thomas Huxley
You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.
— Charlotte Bronte
Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength. 
— Charles Caleb Colton
If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals.
— Robert Conklin
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
The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'
— Willem Dafoe
About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.
— Jane Elliot
The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.
— Edwin Booth
The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.
— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.
— Mark Shields
So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.
— Jack LaLanne
All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.
— Arthur Scargill
I like form and shape and strength in pictures.
— Herb Ritts
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
I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
— Ossie Davis
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 have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.
— Michael Vick
I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.
— Billy Bush
Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.
— Rachel Maddow
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
The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
— Roger Federer
Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. They're very concerned with spending, the deficit, the bailouts, you know all of those kinds of things. But I really think that the strength of the Tea Party is being a grassroots movement.
— John Boozman
Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
— Sophia Loren
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
Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.
— Ai Weiwei
I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.
— Robert Downey, Jr.
One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.
— Bear Grylls
'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie.
— Chris Weitz
It is an honor and a privilege to be of service and support; however, I realize people are not putting their confidence in me. Instead, they are actually learning to trust themselves. My job is to affirm and support them in the process and teach them to do what I do when I need strength: I begin within.
— Iyanla Vanzant
It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
— John Eldredge
I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.
— Lady Gregory
I use a portable pocket ultrasound device instead of a stethoscope to listen to the heart, and I share it with the patient in real time. 'Look at your valve, look at your heart-muscle strength.' So they're looking at it with me. Normally a patient is tested by an ultrasonographer who is not allowed to tell them anything.
— Eric Topol
Most people don't think about plyometrics when they think about powerful strength. But I do lots of them to build mine.
— Allyson Felix
I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.
— Zach Gilford
All I can tell you is that I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don't let it out. Then there's a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy.
— Diane von Furstenberg
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
I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: 'strength.'
— Lorde
Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter.
— Katrina Kaif
Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.
— John Bradshaw
Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.
— Saint Bernard
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
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 fact that hardly anyone is ever prepared to admit to racist behaviour is perhaps a sort of strength: it speaks to the fact that racism is socially inadmissible.
— Martin Jacques
I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.
— Joe Torre
If you're growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and control the circumstances around you. You lead from weakness into strength; you have an undefended back.
— John le Carre
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
Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the power of your roots. Family is a tree, the strength of a tree, the roots, the leaves, the past and the present, the future, the fruits, the seeds.
— Esai Morales
I think we women underrate ourselves when it comes to our courage and strength.
— Judith McNaught
One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow.
— Louis Navellier
I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.
— Elizabeth Kenny
We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.
— Donald Trump
I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength it just gives loneliness. 
— Carla Bruni
I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.
— Cristiano Ronaldo
I stay in Jersey - it's home, man. It's home. And I think that's the foundation of the true strength of the communities where we live in America.
— Joe Piscopo
Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.
— Ian Lustick
One thing in common between politics and marketing is that your greatest strength can often be your greatest weakness.
— Joel Benenson
School integration did not come to be the day after the Brown ruling was issued. Progress took years, and it took passion, strength, and courage from a large group of committed individuals.
— Donna Brazile
My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I'd come to take for granted.
— David Harewood
Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That's what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find that strength?
— Meryl Streep
Keep America strong. Strong in our values, strong in our economy, and strong in our military might. We hope to never have to use our military strength, but the world counts on a strong America to keep the worst actors from doing the worst things.
— Mitt Romney
Not to get too deep, but I think one of the reasons we embrace superheroes and this world is that these are just normal people that have incredible powers that are relatable in some ways - in that we don't have great super powers, but there's strength within us that we can utilize in our lives. Ultimately, they're just normal people with problems.
— Alexandra Daddario
You ever try to beat your dad up? It just don't happen. He's got that old man strength.
— Donald Cerrone
Our young people are patriots and heroes whom we can be proud of before the world; that they have a large contingent of such trustworthy young people is a great blessing for the Workers' Party of Korea and a source of pride for Korea, and this assures the great strength of our dignified state and its bright future.
— Kim Jong-un
While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.
— Al Gore
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
When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.
— Everett Dirksen
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
— William Gurnall
I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.
— Elvis Stojko
God gave me the strength to see, and breathe, and talk.
— Leon Spinks
My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.
— John Abraham
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
I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.
— Oprah Winfrey
'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms.
— George Takei
For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.
— Henry Rollins
I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.
— Kate Winslet
When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
— Orison Swett Marden
Unlike President Obama, I would say that I support the long-standing bipartisan post-war belief that American global strength and leadership secures our national-security interests, and it also promotes order and stability in the world. And it gives us immense influence in the world and deters our adversaries and reassures our allies.
— Tom Cotton
The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.
— Aisha Tyler
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
To see a friend who has suffered the loss of all things begin again with trust and love, gives us strength to continue on.
— Mother Angelica
The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.
— James Mattis
Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of his life here, he never felt at home in Britain. This juxtaposition was a crucial source of his strength and originality. Because of his colour and origin, he saw the country differently - not as a native, but as an outsider.
— Martin Jacques
I don't have to build up strength; I have been blessed with it. I do lift weights and train hard, but I am a very special individual - a very special man with very special talent and very special power. I can get any man - any man - out of there in a matter of seconds. That is the thing I love about myself.
— Deontay Wilder
I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.
— Ken Livingstone
Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discernment and my father's strength.
— Coretta Scott King
The strength of the nation ultimately depends upon the strength of family and community.
— Jeff Fortenberry
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.
— Henry Rollins
We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
— Donald Trump
Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.
— Mitt Romney
Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do.
— Dolly Parton
The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!
— Marianne Williamson
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that.
— Michael Moore
With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort to consume this product and that the project is being consumed by just one person at a time. I really want to play to that strength because it's one of the few advantages books still have.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.
— Robert Kiyosaki
'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.
— Rand Paul
For too long, unfunded federal mandates have drained the budgets of states and communities. The strength and vitality of our communities must be restored.
— Bernie Sanders
When you have a fresh point of view that comes from the right side of the heart, it's just so valuable. You can take it or not take it, but just that perspective can give you a lot of strength or make you reflect on a lot of things.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.
— Ted Cruz
What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.
— Gloria Steinem
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
Thinking differently is my strength.
— Carine Roitfeld
The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn't refer to anything else. They stood alone, and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else.
— Brian Eno
The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.
— Vladimir Putin
Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is one trait, as controversial as it is familiar, for which Jews are above all known, and that is shrewdness in business.
— Steven Pinker
In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.
— Cory Booker
I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all the time. My mother was a big part of bringing up three boys, so I was fully versed in the strength of a powerful woman, and accepted that as the status quo.
— Ridley Scott
On 'Saturday Night Live,' I never really wrote. You know, I would just - I would let the writers cast me into the show. So my strength - and I put all my energies into performance. I just couldn't deal with the rejection, you know, getting your sketches cut, and it was hard for me.
— Tracy Morgan
Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?
— Orison Swett Marden
My father not only has the strength and ability necessary to be our next president, but also the kindness and compassion that will enable him to be the leader that this country needs.
— Ivanka Trump
For my first fragrance, I wanted to capture the essence of a woman's strength and beauty.
— Ivanka Trump
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
— Francis Bacon
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness. 
— Blake Lively
Every actor has a strength, and sometimes you just respond to things that you see yourself better at. I'm aware of what I can and can't do.
— Jason Statham
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
It's a real strength for me that I've never minded the training process. It's something I enjoy. I really like being in the gym or, certainly, on the field.
— Tom Brady
As a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the moments that really matter with family, friends, and community. I now recognize how her strength helped shape the person I am today and the mother that I have become.
— Andie MacDowell
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
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.
— Jesse Ventura
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I sort of consider myself a comedic actress, not a comedienne. I think it's different. You know, I'm not a stand-up or anything, but playing into comedic situations is sort of where, I think, my strength lies.
— Zooey Deschanel
My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she'd seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country - all around the world - who show that type of fortitude.
— Dwayne Johnson
People don't realize that when they 'throw out' their back, it's often because of weak abs. These muscles are essential for lower-back strength and good posture.
— Sylvester Stallone
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
On the world stage, Donald Trump will lead from strength.
— Mike Pence
My strength is translating emotion because I'm such a feeler.
— Selena Gomez
When we have fallen and need to get back up again, we are able to do it in His strength walking in His Spirit. Cling to the Spirit of Christ Jesus - He will never fail.
— Monica Johnson
Persecutions are inevitable as a Christian. We are not greater than our Master, Jesus Christ, in whose Holy Spirit we gain strength to endure.
— Monica Johnson
Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.
— Robert Kennedy
In government, our chief executives have been lawyers. The great majority of our cabinets and congresses are and have been men trained in the law. They have provided the leadership and the statecraft and the store of strength when it was needed.
— Robert Kennedy
We know that Diana Vishneva is a phenomenon of strength and style, and she certainly has earned the right to stretch her talents as best she can.
— Robert Gottlieb
Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista's tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.
— Fidel Castro
So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness.
— Angela Merkel
A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
— George Eliot
Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct kicks in and he jumps to protect you and prove he's worthy of your love.
— Helen Fisher
It's not anti-Catholic to question, nor is it anti-Catholic to be honest about the previous shortcomings of the church, because that is the only way we can ensure its strength and dignity moving forward. It is, however, very Catholic to forgive each other and to never stop loving each other.
— Donna Brazile