Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

John Edwards

I am surprised by the strength of the surge. I'm not surprised by the surge,

Carl Sandburg

It is the business of little minds to shrink.

Calvin Coolidge

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Cesar Chavez

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

My family is my strength and my weakness.

Aristophanes

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Bruce Lee

Practice all movements slow and fast, soft and hard; the effectiveness of Jeet Kune-Do depends on split-second timing and reflexive action, which can be achieved only through repetitious practice.

Bruce Lee

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Bruce Lee

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Bruce Lee

I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.

Edward Young

It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.

Eckhart Tolle

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Clifford Geertz

As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one's own way. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means to stand and live.

Coventry Patmore

Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions."

Bob Graham

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

Elvis Stojko

I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.

Alexander Crummell

If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.

Conrad Veidt

I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Andre Gide

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

Anais Nin

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Anne Frank

A quiet conscience makes one strong!

Andrei Sakharov

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

Anne Bronte

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Ally Condie

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

Anne Sexton

I will be steel! I will build a steel bridge over my need! I will build a bomb shelter over my heart! But my future is a secret. It is as shy as a mole.

Anne Rice

I don't believe in anything and that makes me stronger than you think