Quotes About Strength

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.

History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Let us be bold. Let us be brave. Let us be together.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

We all have challenges. You can let them be obstacles or roadblocks, or you can use them.

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

I love challenges, I love intensity, and I also like to challenge my mind. Believe it or not, boxing is not only about physical force. You use a lot of concentration; it's really mental.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.

Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don't be intimidated. Read your Bible. That's really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God's name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

I was built this way for a reason, so I'm going to use it.

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

I don't bench press, but I use machines to work 10-12 muscle groups. Biceps, triceps, a few things for the back, calves, shoulders and so on - and then I'll go on the running machine, cross-trainer or mountain climber.

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.