“President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.”
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“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.”
“You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.”
“True strength is delicate.”
“I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.”
“When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.”
“If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.”
“I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.”
“If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.”
“I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'”
“Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.”
“You had no right to be born for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.”
“Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.”
“There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.”
“The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.”
“God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.”
“When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.”
“I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.”
“The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.”
“The strength of America is not in Washington.”
“The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.”
“Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.”
“The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.”
“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.”