Strength Quotes

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
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
– Sir Walter Scott
It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.
– Knute Nelson
It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.
– Paul von Hindenburg
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
– Michel de Montaigne
It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
– Joseph Conrad
It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.
– Stephen Lewis
Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.
– Christian Lous Lange
Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point.
– Charles Francis Richter
Insincerity is always weakness sincerity even in error is strength.
– George Henry Lewes
In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.
– Jim Costa
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
– Laurence Sterne
If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.
– Wilhelm Keitel
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
– Karl Von Clausewitz
If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength.
– Steve Albini
If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
– Ben Elton
If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
– Ernest Shackleton
If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but its just impossible to get to everyone.
– Dante Hall
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
– Beatrice Webb
If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act.
– Emmanuelle Beart
I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.
– Brooke Shields
I've completed the first part of my preparations without injury problems. My speed is good and I'm doing lots of volume for strength.
– Jonathan Brown
I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction.
– Wesley Snipes
I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.
– Taraji P. Henson
I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
– Florence Griffith Joyner
I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.
– Jaime King
I'm probably the least flexible athlete you'll find. When it comes to yoga, I can't get in the positions and I can't hold them. You have to be pretty flexible to do it. Once you get certain positions, you have to have the core strength to hold those positions. It's a pretty good workout.
– Steve Blake
I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.
– Joan Didion
I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.
– Billy Bush
I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.
– Lucinda Williams
I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.
– Robert Downey, Jr.
I'll do strength training in my dressing room between shoots, and I've been known to make business calls while out jogging. I try to mute myself on Bluetooth so they can't hear me huffing and puffing, but I usually end up getting caught.
– Alison Sweeney
I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.
– Jamie Kennedy
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
I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.
– Vita Sackville-West
I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction.
– Nick Lampson
I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
– Larry Hagman
I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
– Laura Wilkinson
I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.
– Thor Heyerdahl
I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.
– Merlin Olsen
I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.
– Ariel Sharon
I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of strength. You have to emphasize that the way you are is unusual. That you don't come along every day.
– Linda Hunt
I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.
– Kenneth Robert Livingstone
I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much.
– Ricky Williams
I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.
– Willie Aames
I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.
– Julio Iglesias
I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma.
– Leslie Moonves
I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.
– Madeleine Albright
I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.
– John Sebastian
I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
– Ian Mcewan
I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength.
– Woody Harrelson
I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.
– Meshell Ndegeocello
I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.
– Joan Jett
I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.
– Alison Lohman
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
– Christopher Reeve
I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.
– Novak Djokovic
I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.
– Richard Holbrooke
I spend around two and half hours on the track every day running and another 2 hours in the weight room lifting weights with my strength coach.
– Allyson Felix
I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength.
– Dennis Nilsen
I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.
– Jane D. Hull
I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
– Anna Quindlen
I mean I'm not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it's right and when it's wrong and that's what my strength is.
– Jim Cramer
I maintain by going to spin four or five days a week. I love that I can get a solid butt-kicking in 40 minutes. I also strength train two or three times a week.
– Alison Sweeney
I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.
– Gregory Harrison
I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.
– Lianne La Havas
I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.
– Nina Bawden
I like strength. I depend on my own.
– Shelby Lynne
I like form and shape and strength in pictures.
– Herb Ritts
I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.
– James Hetfield
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
– Leo Rosten
I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.
– George Clooney
I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
– Ani Difranco
I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.
– Black Elk
I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!
– Betty White
I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.
– Kurt Huber
I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.
– Louis Finkelstein
I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.
– Ruth Benedict
I have the strength to endure it all.
– Moshe Dayan
I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.
– Huey Newton
I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me.
– Susan Smith
I have my own strength.
– Nina Hagen
I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility.
– Mark-Paul Gosselaar
I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.
– Michael Vick
I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.
– Barbara Corcoran
I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.
– Elvis Stojko
I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.
– Ann Bancroft
I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
– Black Elk
I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.
– Michel Gondry
I give myself strength by staying away from any music.
– Alannah Myles
I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.
– Madonna Ciccone
I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.
– Joshua Lederberg
I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.
– Ruth Benedict
I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.
– Carry Nation
I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.
– Melissa Etheridge
I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.
– Olivia Thirlby
I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.
– Melanie Griffith
I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.
– Little Richard
I don't know if I'm an action star or if that's just how things are shaping up. I would hate to be boxed into that forever, but it's probably just a strength as far as my type goes, and I'm fine with that.
– Jai Courtney
I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.
– Alexis Arguello
I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.
– Chloe Sevigny