701 private quotes tagged strength

“The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.”— Richard Rosen

“I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.”— J. C. Watts

“I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.”— Kristi Yamaguchi

“Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.”— Cesare Pavese

“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

“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

“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

“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

“There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.”— Doris Humphrey

“'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

“Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.”— Michel Foucault

“It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.”— Whoopi Goldberg

“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.”— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.”— Pearl S. Buck

“Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.”— Mike Murdock

“Solitude is strength to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.”— Paul Brunton

“Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.”— Maggie Kuhn

“The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.”— John Ruskin

“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

“It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.”— Pearl S. Buck

“Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.”— Gary Locke

“What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.”— Geraldine Ferraro

“What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.”— Ernest Gaines

“If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.”— Lawrence Welk

“Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues and it has not helped.”— Timothy Murphy