Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophocles

The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

Sophocles

Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.

Starhawk

Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.

Sophie Swetchine

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

Swami Vivekananda

You are the creator of your own destiny

Stephen Covey

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

Sigmund Freud

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Steven Morrissey

It's so easy to laugh It's so easy to hate It takes guts to be gentle and kind

Steven Cojocaru

Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.

Sun Tzu

In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence under no circumstances can it be neglected.

Sun Tzu

If their forces are substantial, prepare for them; if their forces are strong, avoid them.

Sun Tzu

If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is tempermental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

Sun Tzu

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

Sun Tzu

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Sun Tzu

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.

Robert Browning

Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.

Sidney Sheldon

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

Socrates

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

John Milton

Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

John W. Vessey, Jr.

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

John Steinbeck

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

Marie Curie

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

Marge Piercy

You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I, peasant bodies, earthy, solid shapely dark glazed clay pots that can stand on the fire.

Marge Piercy

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

Theodore Roosevelt

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

Melissa Etheridge

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

May Sarton

It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.

May Sarton

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

Maurice Blanchot

The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.

Matthew Arnold

For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.

Meg Cabot

Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.

Maya Angelou

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.