Quotes on Strength

I mean if you stay engaged, and are constantly fighting, you don't have time to regenerate. So sometimes you have to take time to renew your strength and energy, so that you can come back and fight again in a constructive way.

What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.

Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.

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.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

America's greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.

We have to nurture our young women and understand the beauty and the strength of being a woman. It's kind of a catch-22: Strength in women isn't appreciated, and vulnerability in women isn't appreciated. It's like, 'What the hell do you do?' What you do is you don't allow anyone to dictate who you are.

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.