Famous Quotes
- 'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
- Havelock Ellis on Strength
- 'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.
- Benjamin Millepied on Strength
- 'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
- Thomas Fuller on Strength
- A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.
- Gary Neville on Strength
- A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
- Christopher Reeve on Strength
- A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
- Walter Martin on Strength
- A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.
- Sylvester Stallone on Strength
- A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.
- Greg Walden on Strength
- A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
- Wayne Dyer on Strength
- A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on Strength
- A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
- Indira Gandhi on Strength
- A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
- Marcel Proust on Strength
- A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel on Strength
- A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
- A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
- Elizabeth I on Strength
- A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
- Marilyn Monroe on Strength
- A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
- Marge Piercy on Strength
- A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
- Vernon Howard on Strength
- About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.
- Jane Elliot on Strength
- Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.
- Meir Kahane on Strength
- Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
- David Crystal on Strength
- African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
- Wangari Maathai on Strength
- Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
- Betty Friedan on Strength
- All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.
- Christian Lous Lange on Strength
- All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
- James Freeman Clarke on Strength
- All the sudden high-impact stress can really take a toll on your body. So if you still want to be active and get in a good workout, go to a yoga class or pilates class, or get in some strength and conditioning.
- Sophia Bush on Strength
- All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
- Theodore Bikel on Strength
- All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.
- Arthur Scargill on Strength
- Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.
- Randy Neugebauer on Strength
- 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 on Strength
- Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
- Sextus Propertius on Strength
- America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.
- Bill Frist on Strength
- America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.
- Mohamed El-Erian on Strength
- America's strength is not our diversity our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.
- Ernest Istook on Strength
- An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.
- Adam Schiff on Strength
- 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 on Strength
- An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.
- Stokely Carmichael on Strength
- And I think we understand we cannot make social change for all workers until we have enough strength, membership strength, and at the same time having membership strength and only making change for a limited group of workers is not what our country really needs for people that work.
- Andy Stern on Strength
- And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.
- Alison Bechdel on Strength
- And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
- George Eliot on Strength
- And when I look at my mother, I reflect on her strength and endurance. She's cranky sometimes, but she is lovable and loving. I'd be happy to be there at 86.
- Lisa Scottoline on Strength
- And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.
- Allen Klein on Strength
- Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
- Charles Spurgeon on Strength
- Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
- Tryon Edwards on Strength
- As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue.
- Tom Colicchio on Strength
- As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.
- Alan Thicke on Strength
- As I've often said, Wisconsin's greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and raise their kids with good, Midwestern values.
- As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.
- George Mason on Strength
- As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.
- As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
- Vincent Van Gogh on Strength
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