Strength Quotes - Page 9

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building their kingdoms; but God is the God of the unsuccessful, of those who have failed. Heaven is filling with earth's broken lives, and there is no bruised reed that Christ cannot take and restore to glorious blessedness and beauty. He can take the life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it into a harp whose music shall be all praise. He can lift earth's saddest failure up to heaven's glory.

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity." Also: "Intercultural dialogue is the best guarantee of a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Professional football in America is a special game, a unique game ... It is a rare game. The men who play it make it so. All of them are fearless. All of them are strong, quick. And all of them are part of a story that began long ago. A story written by men who found, in the sport, a demanding measure for their own courage and ability.

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Stop waiting for others to tell you what you can do. Start putting faith into your own strengths and talents. Instead of questioning whether you can reach your goals, move forward with conviction and confidence.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.

We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.

Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall . . . everything.

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.