“A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.”
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“Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.”
“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.”
“Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.”
“Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.”
“The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.”
“Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.”
“It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.”
“We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.”
“One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.”
“The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.”
“Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.”
“Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.”
“I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.”
“Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.”
“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.”
“A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.”
“The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.”
“I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.”
“The virtue of paganism was strength the virtue of Christianity is obedience.”
“Our passion is our strength.”
“Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.”
“Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.”
“I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.”