Quotes of: Strengths Keyword

If sheer strength is your only contribution to war, you will ultimately be defeated.

Life

The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.

Winston S. Churchill

The Master said, "I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue, would esteem nothing above it. He who hated what is not virtuous, would practice virtue in such a way that he would not allow an...

The Analects by Confucius

Do you give the horse his strength or clothe his neck with a flowing mane? Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting? He paws fiercely, rejoicing in his strength, and charges into the fray. He laughs at fear, afraid ...

Holy Bible: New International Version

I understood that the most terrible thing in life is complete hopelessness... To cross out all the 'maybes' and give up the fight when you still have strength for it is the most terrible form of suicide. It's almost unbearable to watch it happening i...

Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag

And do you know why we have not the power to attain this Stoic ideal? It is because we refuse to believe in our power. Nay, of a surety, there is something else which plays a part: it is because we are in love with our vices; we uphold them and prefe...

Letters from a Stoic

Another thing we can learn to do is to be more grateful for every day we have with our children. None of us ever knows how long we have on Earth, so it is imperative that we live and love each moment we have. For some of us, our children’s days do ...

Two Mothers, One Prayer: Facing your Child's Cancer with Hope, Strength, and Courage

In bullfighting there is an interesting parallel to the pause as a place of refuge and renewal. It is believed that in the midst of a fight, a bull can find his own particular area of safety in the arena. There he can reclaim his strength and power. ...

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

He reached out a long arm and drew me in, holding me close against him. I put my arms around him and felt the quiver of his muscles, exhausted, and the sheer hard strength still in him, that would hold him up, no matter how tired he might be. We stoo...

Written in My Own Heart's Blood

I had a dream about you. I had superhuman strength, not unlike I possess when I’m awake, and you wanted me to enter and win the World’s Strongest Man competition. I told you my super strength should be used for the good of humanity, as I tossed a...

We Had A #Dream About You

…When you’re in the darkness, know that the light will come. We are light and dark, sun and moon, male and female, yin and yang; life is composed of opposites, in a continuing cycle of change…. When you are in the light, don’t step back into ...

Yin, Yang, Yogini: A Woman's Quest for Balance, Strength, and Inner Peace

The theology of littleness is a basic category of Christianity. After all, the tenor of our faith is that God's distinctive greatness is revealed precisely in powerlessness. That in the long run, the strength of history is precisely in those who love...

Pope Benedict XVI

You must want to change. It sounds simple, but it’s obviously not. If things were easy, then something would be wrong. You must make a firm decision that this is what you want. If you want to change, if you want to free yourself from a depressed, m...

Leigh Hershkovich

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

Clippings from My Notebook

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

Ficciones

It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.

Heart of Darkness

To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.

Philip Kaufman

Women were the very devil, at the mercy of their frail strength.

A Lesson in Loving

Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.

The Lightning Thief

The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength

Oedipus Rex

Sometimes people need to know they could be forgiven to have the strength to change.

Prism