Strength Quotes

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
The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.
– James Cash Penney
The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.
– Colin Farrell
The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.
– John Frankenheimer
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
The fact that we're going through a crisis is an opportunity for Europe to be more coordinated and more integrated. We're actually talking about a European Monetary Fund or euro bonds, about guarantees for countries, about economic governance in the European Union. That shows the strength of Europe.
– George Papandreou
The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.
– Steve Forbes
The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.
– William Bligh
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 AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.
– Andy Stern
That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.
– Lindsey Buckingham
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.
– Edward Grey
Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.
– Steven Cojocaru
Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.
– Gijs de Vries
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
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
– Arnold Palmer
Strength was the virtue of paganism obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
– David Hare
Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.
– Joan Didion
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
Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.
– Russell Brand
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
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
– Barbara Kingsolver
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
Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.
– Hermann Hesse
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
– Joseph Conrad
Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor.
– John Bates Clark
Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy.
– Debbie Stabenow
So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.
– Sri Mulyani Indrawati
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
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
Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.
– Henry Villard
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
– Henry Rollins
Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.
– Amanda Burton
Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.
– John Shimkus
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
Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
– Ho Chi Minh
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
Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.
– Jack Herer
Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.
– Stafford Cripps
President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.
– William J. Clinton
Physical strength in a woman - that's what I am.
– Tina Turner
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
– Thomas Merton
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
People do not lack strength they lack will.
– Victor Hugo
People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
– Dennis Prager
Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.
– John Forsythe
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.
– Khalil Gibran
Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy our existence challenges its life.
– Charlotte Bunch
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 M. Granholm
Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.
– Moshe Sharett
Our passion is our strength.
– Billie Joe Armstrong
Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.
– Robert Reich
Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.
– Lech Walesa
Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.
– Jay Alan Sekulow
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
– James Dean
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
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
– Albert Schweitzer
One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness.
– Mitch Landrieu
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
Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.
– David Brainerd
On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.
– Naomi Watts
Now, I am about to be nailed as the man who disliked 'Howl's Moving Castle.' Lord, give me strength! Also, IT, please disconnect the e-mail thing.
– Stephen Hunter
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
Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.
– Michelle Malkin
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
– Saint Francis de Sales
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.
– William Moulton Marston
Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.
– Gerhard Schroder
My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density core strength exercise for a stable mid-section and stretching to maintain mobility.
– Samantha Stosur
My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength.
– Anthony Anderson
My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders.
– Miguel Indurain
My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
– Marge Piercy
My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.
– Stacy Keach
My strength is my enthusiasm.
– Placido Domingo
My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.
– Ariel Sharon
My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.
– Benjamin Bratt
My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk she sang. She was a tower of strength.
– Jayne Meadows
My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it's a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month's time, so it's going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I'm good to go so far.
– Picabo Street
My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.
– Olivia Williams
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
My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.
– Ma Jian
My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.
– Ernest Istook
Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.
– Theodore C. Sorensen
Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.
– Rachel Maddow
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
Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.
– Douglas Hurd
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
Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.
– Don King
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
– Marquis de Sade
Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.
– Charles Vest
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.
– Germaine Greer
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
– Louis Pasteur
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
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
It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
– Lance Reddick
It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.
– Catherine Deneuve
It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.
– Meghan O'Rourke
It's a wonderful side effect of what we're doing, to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family, or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with, whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore.
– Davey Havok
It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.
– Moshe Dayan