Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
We get strength and encouragement from watching children.
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.
When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.
I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.
I like form and shape and strength in pictures.
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.
In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.
We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
As much as I appreciate people putting me in the category of these very acrobatic belters, I feel like my strength is my... interpretation and my truthfulness with songs, and I don't want young people to think it's all about the high notes that they ...
I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
