Strength Quotes - page 4

Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. (Joseph Conrad)
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
My brain is only a receiver. In the universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength, inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists. View quote
Nikola Tesla
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. View quote
Abdul Kalam
Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit. View quote
Andrei Sakharov
Fresh pitsand, however, in spite of all its excellence in concrete structures, is not equally useful in stucco, the richness of which, when the lime and straw are mixed with such sand, will cause it to crack as it dries on account of the great strength of the mixture. But river sand, though useless in "signinum" on account of its thinness, becomes perfectly solid in stucco when thoroughly worked by means of polishing instruments. View quote
Vitruvius
Heat is a universal solvent, melting out of things their power of resistance, and sucking away and removing their natural strength with its fiery exhalations so that they grow soft, and hence weak, under its glow. View quote
Vitruvius
There are also half bricks. ...As the bricks are always laid so as to break joints, this lends strength and a not unattractive appearance to both sides of such walls. View quote
Vitruvius
But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by ill health. Therefore, since these advantages fail me, I shall win your approval, as I hope, by the help of my knowledge and my writings. View quote
Vitruvius
Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand. (Sophocles)
What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion. View quote
Max Jacob
Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy. View quote
Nicole Scherzinger
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. View quote
Benjamin Britten
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. View quote
Billy Graham
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. View quote
Judith Viorst
I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength. View quote
Etty Hillesum
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. View quote
Rachel Carson
Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life. View quote
Gregory Peck
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. (Bill Clinton)
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault. View quote
Branch Rickey
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. View quote
William Hazlitt
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form? View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
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