Quotes About Strength

Press. And especially my beloved Anne, whose courage never flagged.

The definition of a strength that we will use throughout this book is quite specific: consistent near perfect performance in an activity.

To develop a strength in any activity requires certain natural talents.

The only possible failure would be never managing to find the right role or the right partners to help you realize that strength.

1. Each person's talents are enduring and unique. 2. Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.

Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.

As the wit W. C. Fields advised: 'If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. There is no point making a fool of yourself.' This advice is easy to give and difficult to put into practice, but as you build your strengths, sometimes making great progress, sometimes slipping back, take comfort from the fact that this is how a strong life is supposed to be lived.

The acid test of a strength? The ability is a strength only if you can fathom yourself doing it repeatedly, happily, and successfully.

Ours is an undisciplined age. The old disciplines are breaking down. . . . Above all, the discipline of divine grace is derided as legalism or is entirely unknown to a generation that is largely illiterate in the Scriptures. We need the rugged strength of Christian character that can come only from discipline. V. RAYMOND EDMAN

Grace was tough and strong—mentally, emotionally and physically—and she cut through a lot of the nonsense. Hollywood was like a game for her. She was also a good businesswoman, and this allowed her to win in her struggles with MGM. She knew how to play the corporate game, and she played it so that it worked for her.

Creative power can pull down mountains of evil and level hilltops of injustice.

We need a great president.

When you are wronged repeatedly, the worst thing you can do is continue taking it--fight back!

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the ability to act effectively, in spite of fear.

We should believe in the strength and vitality of the values which constitute the E.U. and which neighbouring states can believe in and aspire to join.

His face was a chipped chunk of concrete, with eyes of flawed onyx. His mouth was a quick stroke, bloodless. His suit coat fluttered behind him, and his arms swung easy as he walked.

The most aggressive and therefore the most dangerous words in the languages of the world are to be found in the assertion I AM.

Every balancing feedback loop has its breakdown point, where other loops pull the stock away from its goal more strongly than it can pull back.

Wear pink!' her mother had said. 'It confuses the enemy.

We are stronger together.' Dar looked into Kale's eyes...He turned to Lee Ark and nodded pointedly at the hole through which Kale stared. 'It seems to me that we have a problem in this togetherness thing.

Because then you would know my strength in Wulder instead of discovering your own.

It takes a man a while to get his head around the fact that"—she pinched her lips in thought, then nodded—"love makes you stronger, not weaker." She turned to her big brother. "Is that right, Simon?" "Yes, that's right.

Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They're a sign of FRUSTRATION. She's only crying so she won't cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful.

You are this vastness. This vista you see, this grandeur, this enduring strength—if you go deeply enough inside yourself, you will find not something small but something immensely spacious. This is the essence of the human spirit.