Strength Quotes - Page 28

You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.

Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement.

My strength is my enthusiasm.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

When a tree has been transplanted, though fierce winds may blow, it will not topple if it has a firm stake to hold it up. But even a tree that has grown up in place may fall over if its roots are weak.

Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.

You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I, peasant bodies, earthy, solid shapely dark glazed clay pots that can stand on the fire.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

You find your strengths and play them up.

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

It takes much more energy to ignore things than it takes to deal with them and not be afflicted by them anymore.

In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.

The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more evil than murder... Today we know that survivors of torture can be helped to regain their health and strength, and in helping them we take the weapon from their torturers. They sought the destruction of other human beings. We have proved that they have not succeeded.

Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.

Share your strengths, not your weaknesses.

The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.

Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.

the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.

We must do that which we think we cannot.

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.