Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vincent Van Gogh

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Winston Churchill

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Orison Swett Marden

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

John F. Kennedy

Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage.

Erik Erikson

If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.

John Milius

To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

Mahatma Gandhi

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

John Dryden

Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

Audrey Hepburn

I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong

Elbert Hubbard

Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.

Aristotle

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

Richard Bach

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

Thomas Jefferson

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

Tom Chappell

Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.

Sigmund Freud

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

There is no limit to what you can imagine. And with commitment, with effort, what you can imagine you can become. Put your mind to work for you. Believe that you can do it. The world will tell you that you can't. Yet, in your belief you'll find the strength, you'll find the ability, to do it anyway.

Ralph Boston

Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

John Steinbeck

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

Margaret Mitchell

Hardships make or break people.

Melissa Etheridge

Be strong, believe in who you are; be strong, believe in what you feel.

Leonardo da Vinci

People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.

Philip Sidney

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

Marvin Olasky

But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ.

Erica Jong

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.

Jane Powell

Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

Jane Powell

We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

J. R. R. Tolkien

All that is gold does not glitter.

Adriana Lima

You have to believe in yourself and be strong.

Dan Simmons

The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip.

Corrie Ten Boom

If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.