The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
Paul CezanneFreedom comes from strength and self-reliance.
Lisa MurkowskiIt is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya AngelouStrengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
Amos Bronson AlcottYou 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.
Charlotte BronteEvery man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.
John AbbottEverybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John MuirStrength is a matter of the made-up mind.
John BeecherHis serve and his fitness have improved hugely, but his biggest strength is the fact he does not have a weakness in his game
Andrew CastleHe knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Cesare PaveseMy opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
Malcolm MuggeridgeClay is and always has been my favourite surface. It is not only a test of your tennis to play on this but also your strength, patience and willpower in a long match.
Alex CorretjaCharacter cannot be developed in peace and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen KellerA Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.
Terry PratchettTrue strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
Henry MillerIt is important to strengthen... and buy new players
Rafael BenitezHe has shown, as perhaps the most successful chancellor in our country's history, that he's got the strength and the experience and the judgment to make a great prime minister. [yes Tony we all love the fact he destroyed everyone's pension]
Tony BlairPower is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength
Edward Bulwer-LyttonFew things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel JohnsonI believe in the strength of my team and I'm confident we will do it. [on Euro 2004 struggles!]
Arsene WengerNo good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be
Walter LandorThe difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vincent T LombardiThe apple cannot be stuck back on The Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
Arthur MillerThe real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Thomas PaineMy family is like a sanctuary to me. I always turn to them for support and strength. I take comfort in knowing no matter which path I choose, my family stands behind me.
Benjamin BrattMethod is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
Havelock EllisSome people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
John GardnerIf human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
Barbara BushMy attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
Michael Jordan[Tony Blair] is a world politician and, on top of that, a world politician who has succeeded in being re-elected recently, in contrast to some other of the union's leaders... I would guess that Blair's position will be strengthened.
Goran PerssonThe strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinReligion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund FreudGive us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Robert Louis StevensonCredulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength
Charles LambMoney doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
Martin AmisWe plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
LucretiusThere is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.
Beverly SillsIf you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
T S EliotFor us the biggest change in the Australian market over the last five to ten years has been local companies becoming more international in their focus, which plays to our strengths.
Stuart DavisOnly actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
Jean Paul RichterI have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.
Shania TwainThere is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices. [Ain't that the truth Francis]
Francis JeffreyBeing deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu'Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.'
Arnold SchwarzeneggerStrength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
Sir Arthur HelpsWe will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.
John BaconUnion of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
Wallace StevensI feel that I contributed well, but my strength and energy in that department is running out. I made, not friendships, never got anywhere like that, but you know I've formed slight bonds with people and they were lovely and gracious
Lesley BrainNo young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money...
Orison Swett Marden
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