Famous Quotes & Sayings

Swami Vivekananda

I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary.

Freda Adler

If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal" and "criminal," for, in the strength to set standards, resides the strength to maintain control.

Maggie Kuhn

Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.

Maggie Kuhn

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The people rate strength before everything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Jimmy Carter

The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation.

Emily Dickinson

Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.

Ellen Swallow Richards

I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.

Edward Dahlberg

Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

Edward Dahlberg

Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.

Hermann Hesse

Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

Henrik Ibsen

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Ho Chi Minh

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Hayden Fry

Black is a colour of power and strength.

Henry Ward Beecher

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Henry Ward Beecher

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

Henry Ward Beecher

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

Henry Ward Beecher

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

Henry Ward Beecher

A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

George Mason

To disarm the people is the best and most effectual Way to enslave them.

Charles Stanley

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Donald Trump

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

Evita Peron

I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.

William Shakespeare

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

We have a long-term plan, and we won't let the strength of the real take us away from that.

Aberjhani

The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.