Strength Quotes - Page 24

No one enjoys feeling weak, whether it is emotionally, spiritually or physically. There is something within the human spirit that wants to resist the thought of weakness. Many times this is nothing more than our human pride at work. Just as weakness carries a great potential for strength, pride carries an equally great potential for defeat.

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

I will be steel! I will build a steel bridge over my need! I will build a bomb shelter over my heart! But my future is a secret. It is as shy as a mole.

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

Daring to me is having courage; it's a daily meditation to take breath and find strength.

If I can't - then I must. If I must - then I will.

You are the creator of your own destiny

The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.

Gentleness is a divine trait: nothing is so divine as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength.

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.

Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.

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.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Women will not advance except by joining together in cooperative action.... Unlike other groups, women do not need to set affiliation and strength in opposition one against the other. We can readily integrate the two, search for more and better ways to use affiliation to enhance strength--and strength to enhance affiliation.

Since the real purpose of meditation is to increase our capacity to help others, taking time each day to meditate is not selfish. We have to manage our time and energy in such a way that we can be of maximum benefit to others, and to do this we need time alone to recover our strength, collect our thoughts, and see things in perspective

My lord, adjudge my strength, and set me where I bear a little more than I can bear.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger.

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.

Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear.

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.