Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maggie Kuhn

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

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?

Edward Dahlberg

Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

Edward Dahlberg

Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.

John F. Kennedy

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

John F. Kennedy

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

John F. Kennedy

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

Kate Upton

You find your strengths and play them up.

Richelle Mead

I used to think you were weak and just didn't fight back ... but now, honestly, I think you're actually pretty tough. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to not complain and lash out.

Rebecca West

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Tryon Edwards

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

P. C. Cast

Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.

Meher Baba

Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.

Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall . . . everything.

Martin Buber

Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.

Pierre Bonnard

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

Pierre de Coubertin

The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence.

Pope Francis

May all people here find inspiration and strength to build a future of reconciliation, justice and peace for all the children of this beloved land.

Paulo Coelho

And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.

Phillips Brooks

You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally and spiritually strong, whose strength did not come to him in struggle. There is no exception anywhere. Every true strength is gained in struggle.

Phillips Brooks

O, do not pray for easy lives...

Victor Hugo

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

Victor Hugo

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Robert Frost

States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.

Richard E. Byrd

There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Thucydides

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

Thomas Paine

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

Thomas Paine

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.