Top 1200 Personal Strength Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

Most of us, I believe, admire strength. It's something we tend to respect in others, desire for ourselves, and wish for our children. Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words—like 'aggression' and even 'violence'. Real strength is neither male nor female; but it is, quite simply, one of the finest characteristics that a human being can possess.

When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our strength. The real strength of our nation comes from our people - not our buildings.

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

If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and there's no real reason for it. I mean, personal finance is pretty simple.

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

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

The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling; preaching is personal counseling on a group basis; personal counseling originates in preaching. Personal counseling imparts to the preacher a practical familiarity with human nature which he would not otherwise obtain.

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

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

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

Consolation has been wrongly reviled. Consolation is not apathy or inaction. It is not closing one's eyes to the evils of the world. Rather, consolation is the first step in regaining personal equilibrium and strength, which necessarily precedes the ability to act.

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

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.

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

The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and how my family had come together and come apart - sorting all that out, you know, issues of personal identity.

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

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

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

Our greatest strength in our fight for justice is our people - the thousands of men and women who have dedicated their careers, often at great personal sacrifice, to working for justice in America.

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

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

Whatever it is that people find that they want to work on they also have to remember that they are human beings and they need to save some time for themselves for personal growth, for mental health, for their families, their loved ones so that they will have the strength to continue doing that work.

I like squats because they help build that foundation of strength. I do tons of single-leg moves for strength and balance because they let you test your strength in one leg at a time. But even on my leg days, I make sure to fit in some core work.

Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of the future than the ancient social unit whose flexibility and strength substained human society through millenia?

To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.

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

And I think we understand we cannot make social change for all workers until we have enough strength, membership strength, and at the same time having membership strength and only making change for a limited group of workers is not what our country really needs for people that work.

If you're involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it's bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.

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

Personal power is a feeling that everybody is looking for called satisfaction. It is different from enlightenment, but you need personal power to become enlightened. Personal power is not the end of the process.

Anger simply means that your personal power - your personal space, your personal sense of being - has been violated

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

It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I believe in it, and I trust it too and treasure it above everything, the personal, the personal, the personal! I put my faith in it not only as the source, the ground of meaning in art, in life, but as the meaning itself.

The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it.The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.

The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all things and people. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualise. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive elements of discovery. Music, dance, poetry and painting are the channels for emotion. It is through them that experience penetrates our bloodstream.

I have a more personal insight into the importance of core strength because my wife Louise runs a Pilates studio in London. I have enjoyed getting into Pilates. I am not the most supple but I enjoy Pilates more than yoga.

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

It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don't choose to talk about my personal life because I believe that I don't want to, and I believe my personal life is personal.

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

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

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

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

You will never be able to truly step inside another person, to see the world as he sees it, until you develop the pure desire, the strength of personal character, and the positive Emotional Bank Account, as well as the empathetic listening skills to do it.

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death. The cross, crucified, and that turned into victory. Mohammad was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

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

Strength times strength times strength times strength times strength times strength means power.

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