Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean de La Fontaine

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Hosni Mubarak

What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing, ... But let them abide by the rules.

Horace

Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.

Hannah Arendt

The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

George Bernard Shaw

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

Franz Kafka

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

Frank Pittman

Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.

In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

Frederick Douglass

He who is whipped oftenest, is whipped easiest.

Felicia Hemans

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?

Francis Bacon

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Francis Bacon

Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

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.

The more participants we have, the better we can be. I think we can have a real strength in numbers.

Rod Stewart

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

Euripides

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Cassandra Clare

Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of faith in his eyes, his belief in her. He had always thought she was strong. He had showed it in everything he did, in every look and every touch. Simon had faith in her too, yet when he'd held her, it had been as if she were something fragile, something made of delicate glass. But Jace had held her with all the strength he had, never wondering if she could take it--he'd known she was as strong has he was.

George Henry Lewes

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

Haile Selassie

History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.

Jim Brown

You can't get old without living.

H. G. Wells

Strength is the outcome of need.

Jean Anouilh

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Jay-Z

Their gunnin' for me, want to see me fall, you know my story, been through it all, times I felt like dyin', but I ain't cryin', what didn't kill me, makes me strong as iron.

Joseph Joubert

How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!

Ken Kesey

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

Harry S Truman

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

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.