Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

We make war that we may live in peace.

Elizabeth Edwards

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elinor Wylie

My lord, adjudge my strength, and set me where I bear a little more than I can bear.

She takes you out of what you want to do. Our strength is our big girls, but if you get it where you want to get it, she's a difference-maker.

She was our strength. She was kind of our go-to person.

Roger Clemens

She was my strength, ... She was my will.

Tom Rachman

The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.

Aaron Hill

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

Abraham Lincoln

In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

Once I had the strength but no wisdom, now I have the wisdom but no strength

Claude Monet

I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.

Clifford Geertz

As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one's own way. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means to stand and live.

Coventry Patmore

Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions."

Bob Graham

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

David Starr Jordan

The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger.

Confucius

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

David Gemmell

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.

Elvis Stojko

I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.

Thomas Fuller

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

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.

Kim Yuna

So-Youn has good qualities in both jump and power, triple combination is her biggest strength and she also has great artistic value in her skating.

Karl Marx

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Marvin J. Ashton

There is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance. . . . "Look to God and live." This is the wonderful promise given so often in the scriptures. . . . Our capacity to see and comprehend is increased only in proportion to our willingness to look. God becomes more approachable as we look to him.

Marvin J. Ashton

Everything is given by God. All talent, creativity, ability, insight, and strength comes from him. In our own strength we can do nothing.

Muhammad Ali

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Mikhail Bakunin

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.

Harry S Truman

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

Paul Feig

I always felt, and still feel, one of my best strengths as a director is having been an actor for a long time. Nobody knows actors and their insecurities and strengths and everything more than somebody who's done it before.

Mark Helprin

...I returned to walking up the mountain, and there, in the dim asexual beauty of reddening dawns and skies that firmed to blue, I discovered my real and appropriate strengths.

Mitt Romney

The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.