701 private quotes tagged strength

“Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.”— Benjamin Netanyahu

“We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.”— John Bacon

“Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.”— Jerry Costello

“We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future.”— John Hoeven

“Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.”— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.”— Pope Paul VI

“Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.”— Gregory Peck

“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

“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

“I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.”— Larry Hagman

“Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.”— Joseph Conrad

“Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.”— Guy Verhofstadt

“If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.”— Brittany Murphy

“I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.”— Miriam Makeba

“Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.”— Hal Borland

“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”— Jean de La Fontaine

“The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.”— Elizabeth Edwards

“A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.”— Wayne Dyer

“I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.”— Herman Cain

“In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.”— Jon Meacham

“Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.”— Baruch Spinoza

“Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.”— Alexis Carrel

“But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'”— Mitch Daniels

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”— Anais Nin