Strength Quotes - Page 31

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

Consciousness of our strength increases it.

You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.

Seeing the small is called Clarity. Keeping flexible is called Strength. Using the shining Radiance, You enter the Light, Where no harm can come to you. This is called Enlightenment.

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

So let it be in God's own might We gird us for the coming fight, And, strong in Him whose cause is ours In conflict with unholy powers, We grasp the weapons he has given,-- The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven.

Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.

Peace is precious to us. It is the way of life we strive for with all the strength and wisdom we possess. But more precious than peace are freedom and justice. We will fight, if fight we must, to keep our freedom and to prevent justice from being destroyed.

When we protect the places where the processes of life can flourish, we strengthen not only the future of medicine, agriculture and industry, but also the essential conditions for peace and prosperity.

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

Strength is the outcome of need.

We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

Our handicaps exist only in our minds.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.

Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.

Compassion is a mental quality that can bring us true lasting inner peace and inner strength.

If you become more concerned for the welfare of others, you will experience a sense of calm, inner-strength, and self confidence.

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

We have to make sure America writes the rules of the global economy, and we should do it today while our economy is in the position of global strength, because if we don't write the rules for trade around the world, guess what: China will.

Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.