Strength Quotes for Inspiration & Perspective – Page 4 | GloryQuotes

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.

John Lothrop Motley

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Vincent Van Gogh

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

William J. Clinton

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

Christopher Lasch

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.

Ralph W. Sockman

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

Dorothy Day

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

Daniel Nathans

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.

Audre Lorde

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Saint Francis de Sales

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

Phillips Brooks

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

Ben Jonson

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

Lewis Carroll

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

William Gurnall

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

Judith Viorst

I think the recovery hasn't been stronger because the hole that was dug for President Obama by the Bush administration was far worse than anybody could imagine, first of all.

Howard Dean

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Charles Stanley

We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. America's lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.

Ben Nelson

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

Vita Sackville-West

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Cesare Pavese

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

Philip Emeagwali

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!

Phillips Brooks

Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States' own safety, security, and economy.

James T. Walsh

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Barbara Kingsolver

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

Dag Hammarskjold

America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.

Ernest Istook

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Marcus Aurelius

Habit is stronger than reason.

George Santayana

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Audre Lorde

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.

Sextus Propertius

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln

On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.

Patrick J. Kennedy

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.

Andy Goldsworthy

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

Karen Armstrong

Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.

David Brainerd

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Frank Herbert

The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.

John L. Lewis

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

Anne Sophie Swetchine

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

Emmet Fox

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

Wendell Willkie

At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

Vinton Cerf

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

Pope Paul VI

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis.

Paul von Hindenburg

While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.

Louise Slaughter