749 quotes
Breed is stronger than pasture.
George Eliot
Author · British · 1819 – 1880
Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Theologian · English · 1828 – 1889
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Madame de Stael
Writer · French · 1766 – 1817
Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.
Lech Walesa
Activist · Polish · b. 1943
The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.
Steve Forbes
Businessman · American · b. 1947
Right reason is stronger than force.
James A. Garfield
President · American · 1831 – 1881
Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.
Jack Herer
Activist · American
The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.
Goldwin Smith
Historian · Canadian · 1823 – 1910
Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
Alfred Jarry
Writer · French · 1873 – 1907
We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.
Peter Mandelson
Politician · British · b. 1953
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Jonathan Swift
Writer · Irish · 1667 – 1745
Leaders 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 W. Gardner
Educator · American · 1912 – 2002
Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu
Philosopher
My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
Marge Piercy
Writer · American · b. 1936
Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.
William Moulton Marston
Psychologist · American · 1893 – 1947
I like form and shape and strength in pictures.
Herb Ritts
Photographer · American · 1952 – 2002
Eccentricity 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
Philosopher · English · 1806 – 1873
My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.
Michael Eisner
Businessman · American · b. 1942
You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.
Steve Case
Businessman · American · b. 1958
I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker.
Joichi Ito
Businessman · Japanese · b. 1966
The NFL today has bigger, stronger, bodies than ever, moving faster than ever, hitting a stationary object harder than ever before - so the physics of the hit have changed.
Leigh Steinberg
Businessman · American · b. 1949
The 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 Green Ingersoll
Lawyer · American · 1833 – 1899
Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.
Brad Henry
Politician · American · b. 1963
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
John F. Kennedy
President · American · 1917 – 1963
No man can be stronger than his destiny.
Mary Austin
Writer · American · 1868 – 1934
I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
Black Elk
Leader
When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde
Poet · American · b. 1934
The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.
Robert Teeter
Politician · American
Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
Andrei Sakharov
Physicist · Russian · 1921 – 1989
Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.
Lajos Kossuth
Lawyer · Hungarian · 1802 – 1894
There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.
Arthur Scargill
Politician · British · b. 1938
Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.
Larry Craig
Politician · American · b. 1945
That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.
Edward Grey
Politician · British · 1862 – 1933
It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
Warren Christopher
Statesman · American · 1925 – 2011
To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.
Thomas Reed
Politician · American · 1839 – 1902
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
Harriet Tubman
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur
Scientist · French · 1822 – 1895
I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.
Jane D. Hull
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
William Samuel Johnson
Politician · American · 1727 – 1819
The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
Benjamin Banneker
Scientist · American · 1731 – 1806
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
William E. Gladstone
Leader · British · 1809 – 1898
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
Robert Henri
Artist · American · 1865 – 1929
All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.
The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite.
Michael Servetus
Scientist · Spanish · 1511 – 1553
For the state of our union to be strong, we need to place value in Americans.
Patty Murray
Politician · American · b. 1950
An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Writer · American · 1868 – 1963
Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
Mattie Stepanek
Poet · American · 1990 – 2004
I have the strength to endure it all.
Moshe Dayan
Soldier · Israeli · 1915 – 1981