Strength Quotes - Page 12

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

Leading with integrity is embracing honesty! We should always use our weaknesses to point others to Christ's strength.

Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the "hero" within us is revealed.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and insights of the Black woman.

There are times when each of us has to have some gumption to take a stand as to what we wish to preserve or change in order to maintain our self-respect and not be as "a reed shaken with the wind" (Matt. 11:7) . . . . We lose much credibility and strength, and we risk being weighed on an uneven balance, when, Don Quixote-like, we go around "tilting windmills".

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.

Find your own 'sweet spot'. Take your talents and enjoy them, share them, expand them.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one's own way. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means to stand and live.

Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

Facing your fears robs them of their power.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.

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.

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.