Give me a strong back, over a soft heart.

Discipline is strength to the muscles your heels will need to climb up the hills of greatness

It is just the old way–that of obedience. If you have ever seen the Lord, if only from afar–if you have any vaguest suspicion that the Jew Jesus, who professed to have come from God,...

I don’t tell her that my grasp on truth, on words, on people, has slipped. I was getting close, so close to normal again, and that’s been snatched away. I’m not even back where I...

We seem to be coming down with all sorts of things. When we’re at full strength I think we’ll have a very nice team, but the question’s going to be, when is that going to...

We had something few experience. We were joined in our strengths rather than in our weaknesses.

If the night never ends, then there’s never a new day … and with a new day comes renewed hope, light.

A leap of faith doesn’t involve leg strength. Still, I can’t take any chances, so I’ve been doing squats.

Since the panel is carrying out its investigation in private, I can only surmise on the strength of each member’s credentials, coupled with the university’s well-defined policies, that they are doing a very thorough job.

May God strengthen you for a great work.

Don’t give up on yourself. It’s incredibly cliche, but it’s true. The worst is yet to come if you give up on yourself. Hold yourself in high regard, and know that, though the ride may...

Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories.

Safety,” I said. And in that moment I realized that I’d always equated the two in my head, but they weren’t the same thing. Sometimes people were strongest at their most vulnerable, dangerous moments.

It is when things are at their worst that Allah will raise the best generation. The generation that the Prophet would be told Sahabat should look up to. So maybe the fact that you are...

He’s the strength of their team.

For me, I have to build strength in my arm. It is a big spring for me.

The JourneyOne day you finally knewwhat you had to do, and began,though the voices around youkept shoutingtheir bad advice –though the whole housebegan to trembleand you felt the old tugat your ankles.”Mend my life!”each voice...

A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was?...

You can’t really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.

It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to admire her human grandeur to an ever growing degree. Her strength, her purity...

Our ability to transcend betrayal is directly tied to our willingness to identify ourselves as love activists rather than victims of the Universe.

Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him of what he called ‘the love of your fate.’ Whatever your fate is, whatever...

It is the image of physical brawn, sheer force, and commanding volume we so often associate with might. But I have found the might of an army exists in the faith of a child and...

His reasonable words centered me and allowed the gears of logic that ran my life to take over again.

I might not be physically strong.But I do believe that to survive, I need to be strong-willed.Which is more important in life?

She did not suspect that the Abbess was even there hovering about the house, herself estimating the stresses and watching for the moment when a burden harms and not strengthens.

But the fact is, dreams catch us with our armor off.

Quoting Samuel Johnson: “Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women...

Arrogance convinced me that by sheer determination, I could conquer helplessness itself. Stubborn and foolish youth, I must admit, for when I look back on those years now, I see quite clearly that rarely did...

Happy endings are for people that can’t survive the alternative. What a bunch of wimps.

It takes strong, sound leadership, that correspondingly rare commodity, which is afflicted with neither an excess of pity nor callousness, to stand against the insipid tide of superficiality that is sweeping the world.

There’s all this pressure in our society to be beautiful, to be strong, to be sexy. So we spend our time and money on trying to become these things. We put on the high heels,...

I’ve always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you’re over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make...

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

God gave man the strength to conquer the world, but God gave woman a vagina to conquer man

My strength: My enemies, they keep me strong enough to face the worst – MB

She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He’s like a dragon, ancient and fearless.

Sometimes it seems that men–yes, and even women too!–if they believe in a thing strongly enough, they get a strength or endurance that they wouldn’t have believe possible.

But the healing place is within you. Healing is a gift you were granted at birth, just as you were granted others. Use your gifts, child. Use the beauty, the courage, the hope and the...

We got a little bit of a pop from the Supreme Court ruling. I think some of the strength we’ve seen was discounting a Bush presidency. Obviously the uncertainty was not what was hurting the...

Strength of the mind is more powerful than strength of the muscles.

The problem when you are a strong, capable, self-confident person, is that more often than not, people think that you don’t really need things like comfort, reassurance, loyalty and guidance. People are more likely to...

When you carry someone else’s baggage, it’s nearly impossible to get rid of your own. Drop it. Now.

I need to make my bones.

Somebody becomes an enemy if you personalize the unconsciousness that is the ego. Non-reaction is not weakness but strength. Another word for non-reaction is forgiveness. To forgive is to overlook, or rather to look through....

I’ve lost a lot in my long life. Yes, I’ve seen pain and I’ve seen strife. But I’ll never give up; I’ll never let go. Because I’ll always have my ray of hope.

Chances are no matter how bad your troubles seem to be, someone somewhere, with less resilience, has successfully conquered a more severe version of your problems.

If there is one thing I refuse to do, it is to drown.

Gratitude pours forth continually, as if the unexpected had just happened—the gratitude of a convalescent—for convalescence was unexpected…. The rejoicing of strength that is returning, of a reawakened faith in a tomorrow and the day...

The MPC could remain on the sidelines for some months to come as it monitors the strength of consumer spending and the housing market, and also looks to see if high oil and energy prices...