- Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.
- Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
- Francis Bacon on Strength
- Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
- Sophia Loren on Strength
- Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.
- Douglas Hurd on Strength
- Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
- May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.
- Swami Vivekananda on Strength
- Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
- William E. Gladstone on Strength
- Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
- Dorothy Day on Strength
- Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.
- Josephus Daniels on Strength
- Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Strength
- Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.
- Rachel Maddow on Strength
- Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.
- Theodore C. Sorensen on Strength
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
- Karen Armstrong on Strength
- Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
- Martin Amis on Strength
- Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.
- Mary J. Blige on Strength
- My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
- Michael Jordan on Strength
- My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.
- Gary Sheffield on Strength
- My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
- Bear Grylls on Strength
- My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
- Bear Grylls on Strength
- My family is my strength and my weakness.
- Aishwarya Rai on Strength
- My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.
- Ernest Istook on Strength
- My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
- Barbara Corcoran on Strength
- My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
- Peter Drucker on Strength
- My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
- Katharine Hepburn on Strength
- My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.
- 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.
- Queen Elizabeth II on Strength
- My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.
- Olivia Williams on Strength
- My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it's a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month's time, so it's going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I'm good to go so far.
- Picabo Street on Strength
- My mom was a source of strength.She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.
- Gloria Estefan on Strength
- My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
- Carly Fiorina on Strength
- My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk she sang. She was a tower of strength.
- Jayne Meadows on Strength
- My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.
- Buffalo Bill on Strength
- My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
- Malcolm Muggeridge on Strength
- My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.
- Antonio Gramsci on Strength
- My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.
- Benjamin Bratt on Strength
- My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
- Marge Piercy on Strength
- My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.
- Stacy Keach on Strength
- My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson on Strength
- My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.
- Michael Eisner on Strength
- My strength is my enthusiasm.
- Placido Domingo on Strength
- My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.
- Ariel Sharon on Strength
- My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders.
- Miguel Indurain on Strength
- My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength.
- Anthony Anderson on Strength
- My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density core strength exercise for a stable mid-section and stretching to maintain mobility.
- Samantha Stosur on Strength
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