Quotes About Strength

A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.

People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

The strongest have their moments of fatigue.

when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.

There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.

I thought she'd [her mother] offer me some sympathy. Instead, she said, 'Don't you ever call me crying again! You wanted to be in this business, so you better toughen up!' And I did.

This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.

When peoples cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

I began to cry but maintained my shouting through it, like a wind through sheets of rain.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

My first meditation teacher told me that there is no such thing as a bad meditation. He was right. During the difficult meditations you build up your strength, which creates meditation for peace.

Embrace struggle... It is your greatest teacher.

No one can take it away from you.

If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.

The pain is necessary. Sometimes pain is the teacher we require, a hidden gift of healing and hope.

Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.

Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.