Famous Quotes & Sayings

James M. Barrie

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

Joan Jett

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

Eric Mangini

Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

Sidney Sheldon

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

John W. Vessey, Jr.

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

John Steinbeck

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

A man doesn't realize how much he can stand until he is put to the test. You can stand far more than you think you can. You are much stronger than you think you are.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Socrates

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Theodore Roosevelt

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

Melissa Etheridge

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

James Allen

Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.

James Allen

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

James Anthony Froude

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

Henry Rollins

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

Henry Adams

If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

Henry David Thoreau

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Plautus

The stronger always succeeds.

Lee Ann Womack

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

Lisa Kleypas

You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.

James Russell Lowell

Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

James Russell Lowell

That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.

Laurence Sterne

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Liberace

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our handicaps exist only in our minds.

Luc de Clapiers

Consciousness of our strength increases it.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Every obstacle in his journey became a milestone, an occasion for further triumph. We have a model in front of us now, a model who blazes our trail and gives us strength.

Mignon McLaughlin

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

All we talked about this week was their strength and physicality inside.

The market, again, has been completely surprised on the upside - it completely underestimated the strength of the market.

Peter Drucker

Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.