Strength Quotes

I dance but I also work out. I run, do strength training... you name it. I've got to!
– Laurieann Gibson
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
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
I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.
– Emmanuelle Beart
I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.
– Jim Brown
I believe my past is my strength.
– Michel Martelly
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
I am climbing a difficult road but the glory gives me strength.
– Sextus Propertius
I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.
– Joan Smalls
I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
– Pedro Almodovar
I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
– Georg Brandes
I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.
– Cindy Sheehan
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
– William Gurnall
How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns.
– Tammy Bruce
He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.
– Jared Leto
He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
– Ben Jonson
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
– William Samuel Johnson
Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.
– Conrad Black
Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .
– Maria Weston Chapman
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
– Robert Henri
God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.
– George A. Smith
God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
– Walter Annenberg
God gave me the strength to see, and breathe, and talk.
– Leon Spinks
Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy.
– Nicole Scherzinger
From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.
– Alex Campbell
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
– Francois Rabelais
From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.
– Cesar Chavez
Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.
– Jack LaLanne
First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.
– William Bartram
Exercise helps me with stress. It changes your brain chemistry. I turn to Ashtanga yoga when I feel the need to relax. I love it, but it's not right for everybody. It's taught to you a little bit at a time, according to your body type and your strength. That keeps things challenging.
– Lisa Edelstein
Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.
– Karl Radek
Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.
– Georgios A. Papandreou
Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team.
– Laurent Jalabert
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
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
– Charles De Secondat
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
– Anna Julia Cooper
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
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
Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.
– Ronald Blythe
Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.
– Sid Waddell
Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions.
– Samantha Stosur
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
– Oliver Goldsmith
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
– Abdul Kalam
Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength.
– Jane Byrne
Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
– Billy Corgan
By and large we have got to find the good leaders to work with to make sure that we build the strength in these communities. Simply issuing edicts from Canberra isn't going to solve issues on the APY lands.
– Jay Weatherill
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
But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.
– Garry Shandling
Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
– Andrei Sakharov
Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
– Alfred Jarry
Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.
– Henry Chadwick
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
– Blaise Pascal
At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.
– Lee Greenwood
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.
– Vinton Cerf
At Casablanca we did 'Midnight Express,' 'Flashdance,' and 'The Deep.' My willingness for risk has always been my strength.
– Peter Guber
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
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
– Charles Spurgeon
And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.
– Allen Klein
And when I look at my mother, I reflect on her strength and endurance. She's cranky sometimes, but she is lovable and loving. I'd be happy to be there at 86.
– Lisa Scottoline
And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.
– Alison Bechdel
And I think we understand we cannot make social change for all workers until we have enough strength, membership strength, and at the same time having membership strength and only making change for a limited group of workers is not what our country really needs for people that work.
– Andy Stern
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
An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.
– Adam Schiff
America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.
– Mohamed El-Erian
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
– Sextus Propertius
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
Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.
– Randy Neugebauer
All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.
– Arthur Scargill
All the sudden high-impact stress can really take a toll on your body. So if you still want to be active and get in a good workout, go to a yoga class or pilates class, or get in some strength and conditioning.
– Sophia Bush
Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
– David Crystal
Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.
– Meir Kahane
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
– Vernon Howard
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
– Elizabeth I
A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
– Indira Gandhi
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
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
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
– Walter Martin
A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.
– Gary Neville
'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.
– Benjamin Millepied
You're only given as much as you can handle at any given time. Whether it's true or not, it gives you the strength.
– Gillian Anderson
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
– Maya Angelou
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
– Maya Angelou
Our boldness and Christian suffering, they call obstinacy and pertinacity, though half as much, if among themselves, they would account Christian courage, and nobility. And though thus by their envy they strive to read all, relating to us, backwards, counting these things vices in us, which in themselves they would extol as virtues, yet hath the strength of Truth extorted this confession often from them, that we are generally a pure and clean people as to the outward conversation.
– Robert Barclay
Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else.
– Claude Brown
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
Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each seed according to its own kind... each one knowing what to do, each one demanding its own rights on the earth... So, artist, you too from the deeps of your soul... let your roots creep forth, gaining strength.
– Emily Carr
In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'
– Jimmy Carter
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
– John Cheever
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
– Bill Clinton
The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence.
– Pierre de Coubertin
That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.
– Noel Coward
Everything that was good from that small remote country had gone into them - sunshine and strength, good sense, patience, the versatility of practical men. They had confidence in themselves - knowing themselves as good as the best in the world could bring against them. And they marched into history.'
– Silvia Cartright
It is truly said: It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.
– Chow Ching
Air power is an unusually seductive form of military strength, in part because, like modern courtship, it appears to offer gratification without commitment.
– Eliot Cohen
Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support the greater it curtails human freedom.
– William O. Douglas
Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.
– Judge Dalzell
The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.
– Albert Einstein
Charm - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
– Henry Ellis
To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. Tha is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.
– Bernard Edmonds