Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
Cesare Pavese'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 SchwarzeneggerMy 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 JordanTechnically he is very, very sound. Everyone talks about mental strength, but you need belief in your own game to be mentally sound
Andrew CastleI have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.
Shania TwainReligion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund FreudWork is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
George SandClay 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 CorretjaEccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
John Stuart Mill[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 PerssonThere 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 JeffreyI think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
George EliotTo love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao TzuI believe in the strength of my team and I'm confident we will do it. [on Euro 2004 struggles!]
Arsene WengerThis decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon]
Maria SharapovaIf you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
T S EliotThe strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.
Richard J DaleyThe spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth
Dwight EisenhowerIn times of trouble or personal suffering remember that you always have the opportunity to make earnest request to God through your prayers for the strength you need to continue.
Patrick GordonCharacter 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 KellerGive 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 StevensonI think it's very important to try and play to your strengths irrespective of the court surface and conditions.
Tim HenmanNo 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 LandorSir, I salute your courage, your strength, and your indefatigability [to Saddam Hussein]
George GallowayThere is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.
Beverly SillsA 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 PratchettHe knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Cesare PavesePower is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength
Edward Bulwer-LyttonDifficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.
SenecaRudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
Eric HofferThere is strength deep-bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?
Felicia HemansI will resist you with my last ounce of strength
Jean Luc PicardThe man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow WilsonThe awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
Paul CezanneWe 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 BaconWhoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.
Daniel O'ConnellBoxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.
Lennox LewisThe strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
Jean Jacques RousseauIt is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
Simone De BeauvoirPower is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
Michel FoucaultThe real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Thomas PaineMy own political future depends on my own strength of character dealing with the points that are raised.
Charles ClarkeWillingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Jack Welch'It's not always a bed of roses, but the blend of characters makes the
strength of the team.' - A team-building tip
Steve RedgraveLeaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
John GardnerEvery man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.
John AbbottFor 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 DavisFreedom comes from strength and self-reliance.
Lisa MurkowskiYou 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 BronteSilence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu
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