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strength

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud. – Russell Brand

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head. – Elizabeth I

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work. – Joseph Conrad

Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go. – Lech Walesa

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense. – Mary Wollstonecraft

Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart. – Steven Cojocaru

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be. – Emmet Fox

Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. – Richard E. Byrd

True strength is delicate. – Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display. – Anna Quindlen

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard. – Ernest Shackleton

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles. – Karl Von Clausewitz

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength. – Pat Riley

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience. – Lech Walesa

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers. – Richard Holloway

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day. – V. S. Naipaul

I am climbing a difficult road but the glory gives me strength. – Sextus Propertius

The strength of America is not in Washington. – J. C. Watts

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. – Benjamin Banneker

I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time. – Novak Djokovic