Top 1200 Moral Strength Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The test of moral ideas is moral results.

I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new Platonists; whilst they exhausted their strength in the verbal disputes of metaphysics, attempted to explore the secrets of the invisible world, and studied to reconcile Aristotle with Plato, on subjects of which both these philosophers were as ignorant as the rest of mankind.

In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.

A photographer is a witness. He has a moral duty. Every picture must be true and honest. I believe a photographer's strength is his ability to accurately record reality. There are photographers who think they are lucky if they find unusual or special subject. But it is never the subject that is so marvelous. It is how alive and real the photographer can make it.

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.

Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used.

The strength of any organization is a direct result of the strength of its leaders.

Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.

Strength grows from building other strength, not from trampling on weakness.

The strength of the nation ultimately depends upon the strength of family and community.

What is doing the damage is the fact that the U.K. is pulling in more imports, which shows the continued strength of the economy and the strength of sterling.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

I don't have a constituency, and I'm not autobiographical in any way. I write these deeply moral books in a country which would prefer irony to anything with a moral tone.

When you are behind bars with no hope of release, you need to find strength wherever you can. Personally, I found strength in Michael Jackson.

In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

I like the idea of young readers using my stories as a sort of moral gym, where they can flex and develop their newly developed moral muscle.

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.

You were true to her, even if she was not to you. Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of great strength.” “Strength,” she said with a little laugh. “I gave her strength, and look what she did with it.

I think it is very important to build the moral fibre of the youth. Moral education should be part of the curriculum, and I will work towards introducing that.

Everyone has their special strength. And my strength is to have the ball and start good things with it.

You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.

I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.

Even when Krishna gives you strength, maya will delude you to think it is your strength.

What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.

Strength of the mind is more powerful than strength of the muscles.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy... with polio.

Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.

You know God gives me that inner strength that super strength to get through things.

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.

It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.

Everything is given by God. All talent, creativity, ability, insight, and strength comes from him. In our own strength we can do nothing.

True strength is not always shown through victory. Stand up, try again and display strength of heart.

We must seek support in the moral values that have ensured the progress of our civilization. Honesty and hard work, responsibility and faith in our strength are bound to bring us success. There should be no place for despondency. The crisis can and must be fought by uniting our intellectual, spiritual and material resources.

You pray. And you allow the Lord to be your strength. Remember the Lord doesn't give you strength. He is your strength.

I'm a former CIA officer and Pentagon official. I'm a deep believer in border security, but we have to be a nation of moral - of morals and, like, a moral core.

It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have.

The history, the root, the strength of my father is the strength we now rest on.

Searching for money, what are you really searching? You are searching power, you are searching strength. Searching for prestige, political authority, what are you searching? You are searching power, strength - and strength is all the time available just by the corner. You are searching in wrong places.

The strength of the saviour is much more than the strength of the person who kills.

Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.

It's that strength of the human spirit, the strength of what's deep down in you, that's really going to get you anywhere and everywhere.

Remember, it is not your weakness that will get in the way of God's working through you, but your delusions of strength. His strength is made perfect in our weakness! Point to His strength by being willing to admit your weakness.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

The strength of the dollar has historically been tied to the strength of the U.S. economy and the faith that investors have in doing business in America.

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.

Hatred and sorrow are power. They are yours to control. All you have to do is turn them into strength, and use that strength to move forward.

Defiance in itself is a sign of strength, and strength is a light side of human nature - when at all present, that is.

I think historically modern economics, capitalist economics, tends to erode moral categories... And this is where I think the right gets capitalism wrong. They kind of assume that there is a moral equivalence or moral valence to capitalism, but I tend to think that economics erodes all the kind of cultural taboos and inhibitions and values it comes into contact with.