Strength Quotes

"I'm convinced that we black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but the get up, to get through, and to get over."
-Janet Jackson

"Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food."
-Welsh Proverb

"Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines."
-Paul Brunton

"Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy."
-Sir Arthur Helps

"Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This modern world is an aggressive, hyperactive, competitive, masculine world, and it needs the woman's touch as never before."
-Eva Burrows

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"For each thorn, there's a rosebud... for each twilight — a dawn... for each trial — the strength to carry on, For each stormcloud — a rainbow... for each shadow — the sun... for each parting — sweet memories when sorrow is done."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old."
-Mark Twain

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."
-Plato

"War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength."
-George Orwell

"There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'"
-Andre Gide

"Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength."
-Betty Friedan

"We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it."
-Thomas Jefferson

"The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women… merely adored."
-Oscar Wilde

"True strength lies in gentleness."
-Irish Proverb

"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation."
-John F. Kennedy

"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."
-Woodrow Wilson

"'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."
-Oprah Winfrey

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."
-Louis Pasteur

"Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
-Mother Teresa

"O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant."
-William Shakespeare

"Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
-Mother Teresa

"Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength."
-Lao tzu

"Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on."
-Henry Rollins