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Quotes About Strength

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.
~ Etty Hillesum
God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.
~ George Sand, La Petite Fadette
Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.
~ Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
Mercy is stronger than your sword.
~ P.C. Cast, Dragon's Oath
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
~ Karen Armstrong
I have the strength to remain calm in the face of change.
~ Louise Hay
It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was.
~ Halle Berry
Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.
~ Laozi
There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?
~ Felicia Hemans
With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure
~ Frances Sargent Osgood
Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.
~ Maria Jane McIntosh
I've learned... That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.
~ Andy Rooney
But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.
~ Albert Einstein
In my weightlifting I am trying to show that if you pray and meditate, you can bring to the fore your inner strength. Now, if somebody is really inwardly strong, he is always at peace.
~ Sri Chinmoy
But surely Adam cannot be excused; Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What weakness offered, strength might have refused, Being lord of all, the greater was the shame.
~ Emilia Lanier
The unit of every country is the family and the strength of the country is based on the smiles of the children and songs of the adults.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
I do believe that American should deal from strength.
~ Sylvester Stallone
I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.
~ Ruth Benedict
To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on.
~ Simon Van Booy
I'm aware that dialogue isn't my strength. I use it as a device. I don't particularly like dialogue which is part of the problem.
~ George Lucas
Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.
~ Fausto Cercignani
During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.
~ Asger Jorn
Apparent confusion is a product of good order; apparent cowardice, of courage; apparent weakness, of strength.
~ Sun Tzu
Fundamentally, what everyone needs is mental strength and confidence, to manage the mind, just as we manage the outside world.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi