Quotes on Strength

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive, is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.

Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.

Without strong communities, we cannot pull together during times of hardship. Our diversity turns from a source of strength to a source of conflict.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.

Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

My strength is looking for composition and light, and I think those things come in the quieter times of war or photographing people affected on the margins of war - civilians, refugees; that is where I really excel.