Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

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

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

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.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

Man is not made for defeat.

There’s my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

It’s a real strength for me that I’ve never minded the training process. It’s something I enjoy. I really like being in the gym or, certainly, on the field.

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

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.‘

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

As a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren’t characters I looked up to and identified with.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

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.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.