Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elbert Hubbard

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

Elbert Hubbard

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that it is through strength, through the fact that people who know what people need are working to make this country a better place for all people, that we will help the world to accept our leadership and understand that, under our form of government and through our way of life, we have something to offer them...

Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

There's strength in numbers, and that's what we have going for us,

Tony Blair

a tribute to the strength of our relationship.

Rod Stewart

There was nothing there. No strength. I was petrified. I was scared. This was my livelihood.

It's as tough a three-game stretch as we'll play this season. We'll know more about our strength after those games.

Hal Borland

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

Herman Melville

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

Henry David Thoreau

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

Henry David Thoreau

The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.

Henry David Thoreau

When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.

Henry David Thoreau

It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

Henry David Thoreau

For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

Henry David Thoreau

We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of his strength, that is, on his edge, but affords a convenient surface to put upon. He slides all the way through life.... But the brave man is a perfect sphere, which cannot fall on its flat side and is equally strong every way.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Etty Hillesum

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

Helen Keller

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

George Eliot

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Harvey S. Firestone

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

James Broughton

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Valour needs first strength, then a weapon.

Iyanla Vanzant

You are not being tested! You are being fortified! Remember, you cannot fail!

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Lean on thyself until thy strength is tried; Then ask God's help; it will not be denied. Use thine own sight to see the way to go; When darkness falls ask God the path to show. Think for thyself and reason out thy plan; God has His work and thou hast thine. Exert thy will and use for self-control; God gave thee jurisdiction of thy soul. All thine immortal powers bring into play; Think, act, strive, reason, and look up and pray.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

George S. Patton

You're never beaten until you admit it

George S. Patton

May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.