I don’t regard myself as a cracking good climber. I’m just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I’m good on ice.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

The ‚morality of compromise‘ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Silence is a source of great strength.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‚We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.‘

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

I’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

You can be passionate about anything.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.