Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.
John AbbottFew things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel JohnsonHe is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward Beecher The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them.
John AdairWillingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Jack WelchOur strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
Mignon McLaughlinI 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 BrainTo love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao TzuIn all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
Robert E LeeOne cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
Jean AnouilhHe is a man of great wisdom and knowledge. He is a man who serves the Lord.
We remember well a sermon at the pope's funeral in Rome. His words touched our hearts and the hearts of millions. We join with our fellow citizens and millions around the world who pray for continuous strength and wisdom. [on Pope Benedict XVI]
George BushThe strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.
Richard J DaleyStrength is a matter of the made-up mind.
John BeecherTechnically he is very, very sound. Everyone talks about mental strength, but you need belief in your own game to be mentally sound
Andrew CastleSir, I salute your courage, your strength, and your indefatigability [to Saddam Hussein]
George GallowayNow is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us.
Larry SummersMy 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 JordanIn 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 Gordon[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 PerssonGod give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
Thomas HuxleyMoney 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 AmisMethod is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowLet me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis PasteurNo 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 LandorI think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.
Etty HillesumHe 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 BlairThe strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
Jean Jacques RousseauThe 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 MillerI look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business, pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore
William MelmothUnion 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 StevensOnce he strengthened up, you could do whatever you wanted on him. It was like driving a Ferrari rather than a Cortina [on Desert Orchid]
Colin BrownThe superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Robert G Ingersoll'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 EllisThere are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T WashingtonNothing has more strength than dire necessity.
EuripidesWhoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.
Daniel O'ConnellIt may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
Pearl BuckWill power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
Cesare PaveseHe knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Cesare PavesePower 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 FoucaultOnly actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
Jean Paul RichterRage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.
James BaldwinCharacter 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 KellerThere 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 HemansReligion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud'It's not always a bed of roses, but the blend of characters makes the
strength of the team.' - A team-building tip
Steve RedgraveWe plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
LucretiusO! It is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant (Measure For Measure, Act 2 Scene 2)
William ShakespeareWe are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
Charles BaudelaireClay 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.
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