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Strength Quotes

The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.

– Sam Houston

The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.

– Richard J. Daley

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

– Robert Peel

There’s so much with my character in ‘Dredd’ that I identify with. She’s my favorite character I think I’ve ever played. She’s the most dynamic and fascinating woman that I could even imagine playing, so I love her. What I love about her is that her sensitivity is her greatest strength.

– Olivia Thirlby

I’m used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all the time. My mother was a big part of bringing up three boys, so I was fully versed in the strength of a powerful woman, and accepted that as the status quo.

– Ridley Scott

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

– Ovid

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

– Oliver Goldsmith

I take great pride in recalling that I could open in a play on Broadway or in London’s West End and fill a theatre on the strength of my name – Steed’s name.

– Patrick Macnee

I grew up in a strong faith-based family. I think I have selected to return to those roots for strength, for my family, for myself and to protect our children and to forgive others and move on and face forward.

– Paula Broadwell

I believe if a sentence is to retain its strength over time, it needs to be carefully made.

– Romesh Gunesekera

A barrier for me – which has been both a strength and a weakness – has been my taste. The kind of things I’m interested in aren’t always mainstream.

– Randa Haines

When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

– Patricia Neal

Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.

– Saint Bernard

We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.

– Rudolf Steiner

It’s as if my left heel is my bass drum and my right heel is the floor tom-tom. I can get snare out of my right toe by not putting it down on the floor hard, and, if I want cymbals, I land flat on both feet, full strength on the floor.

– Savion Glover

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.

– Robert Kiyosaki

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

– Ralph Cudworth

I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction – especially autobiographies and biographies. I’ve read ‘Long Walk to Freedom’ by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I’m totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years.

– Richard Branson

On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.

– Patrick J. Kennedy

In some ways, I feel like the strength of animation is in its simplicity and caricature, and in reduction. It’s like an Al Hirschfeld caricature, where he’ll use, like, three lines, and he’ll capture the likeness of someone so strongly that it looks more like them than a photograph. I think animation has that same power of reduction.

– Pete Docter

The strength of ‘Peep Show’ has always been that that it’s quite traditional, but it’s obviously presented in a very new way.

– Robert Webb

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

– Rand Paul

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

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

– Pythagoras

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

– Russell Brand

I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn’t a stage mother; she didn’t push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.

– Patricia McBride

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

– Oprah Winfrey

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.

– Queen Elizabeth II

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

– Samuel Smiles

A living art of teaching, one that rests on a true understanding of the human being, has a thread of strength running through it that stimulates individual students to participate so that it is not necessary to keep their attention through direct ‘individualized’ treatment.

– Rudolf Steiner

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