Quotes on Strength

Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones.

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

People are afraid that if they let go of their anger and righteousness and wrath, and look at their own feelings-and even see the good in a bad person-they're going to lose the energy they need to do something about the problem. But actually you get more strength and energy by operating from a place of love and concern. You can be just as tough, but more effectively tough.

It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him-be your faith weak or be it strong.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive."

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.

Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.

When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.