Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Kesey

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

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.

Socrates

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

John Milton

Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

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.

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.

John Ruskin

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Matthew Arnold

For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.

Meg Cabot

Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.

Maya Angelou

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Maya Angelou

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Marilyn vos Savant

The magnitude of an action may change not only the strength of its impact, but the direction. If you became a dentist, for example, you would certainly be an asset to our society. But what if everyone became a dentist? Who would bake the bread? Who would build the houses?

Plautus

The stronger always succeeds.

Lee Ann Womack

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

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.

Peter Drucker

No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary human beings perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each man's strength to help all the others perform. The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.

Peter Drucker

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

Marlo Thomas

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

May Sarton

It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.

May Sarton

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

Maurice Blanchot

The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.

Masashi Kishimoto

The weaker you are the louder you bark. -Tenten

Mason Cooley

Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside.

Mason Cooley

My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.

Mason Cooley

Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.

Michel Foucault

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Marie Curie

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

Marge Piercy

You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I, peasant bodies, earthy, solid shapely dark glazed clay pots that can stand on the fire.

Marge Piercy

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

Theodore Roosevelt

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