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Quotes About Strength

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
Nothing is so powerful as gentleness nothing is so gentle as true strength.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
~ Saint Jerome
The Roman world is falling, yet we hold our heads erect instead of bowing our necks.
~ Saint Jerome
I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
~ Saint Teresa of Avila
Sure, for all our blindness; secure, for all our helplessness; strong, for all our weakness; gaily in love, for all the pressures on our hearts.
~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
O saving Victim, opening wideThe gate of heaven to man below,Our foes press on from every side,Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow.
~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
Being aggressive, you can accomplish some things, but with gentleness, you can accomplish all things.
~ Sakyong Mipham
our muscles and bones are strong enough for us to walk—but not to run, unless we have conditioned them.
~ Sakyong Mipham
in meditation, the mind will get stronger if we keep exercising our mindfulness.
~ Sakyong Mipham
We can use the time recovering from an injury to train our mind in gentleness and firmness.
~ Sakyong Mipham
Aggression is a short-term solution for a long-term problem. Gentleness is persistent. Gentleness is therefore a sign of strength, while aggression is often a sign of weakness.
~ Sakyong Mipham
The confidence of the tiger does not try to dominate others. Rather, it conquers our own doubt, enhancing our awake and positive qualities.
~ Sakyong Mipham
Within humanity is goodness that is alive and fully intact but, in these times, it is surrounded by the darkness of uncertainty and fear.
~ Sakyong Mipham
The bones and tendons of the mind are mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is the mind's strength, and awareness is its flexibility.
~ Sakyong Mipham
Love is the saving grace. It's the buddha in you standing up and saying, "Even though it's dark, I have this jewel.
~ Sakyong Mipham
The bones and tendons of the mind are mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is the mind's strength, and awareness is its flexibility. Without these abilities, we cannot function. When we drink a glass of water, drive a car, or have a conversation, we are using mindfulness and awareness.
~ Sakyong Mipham
Awareness puts us in tune with the elements. This elemental connection is part of being alive. We are too often indoors, unaware of the elements. The elements are not our enemies: we ourselves are made of the elements. When we connect with them, they inspire us and make us stronger, allowing us to communicate with the world in much subtler ways.
~ Sakyong Mipham
All our power lies in both mind and body; we employ the mind to rule, the body rather to serve; the one we have in common with the Gods, the other with the brutes.
~ Sallust
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
~ Sallust
ubi intenderis ingenium valet; si libido possidet, ea dominatur, animus nihil valet.
~ Sallust
Philip revealed his carefully cloaked emotions when he wrote to his mother-in-law, "Cherish Lilibet? I wonder if that word is enough to express what is in me." He declared that his new wife was "the only 'thing' in this world which is absolutely real to me, and my ambition is to weld the two of us into a new combined existence that will not only be able to withstand the shocks directed at us but will also have a positive existence for the good
~ Sally Bedell Smith
After American titan and presidential father Joseph P. Kennedy suffered a stroke that impacted one side of his body, guests pretended not to notice the impact. Jackie Kennedy, however, held the impacted hand and kissed the affected side of his face, facing his disability and giving him the courage to do so.
~ Sally Bedell Smith