Right now, I wish I'd stayed because I want you at my side. That sounds pretty selfish, but I don't mean it that way. You just never needed me that way; I said it to you once as I was leavingthat you love me, but you don't need me. You don't lean. But I admire that about you, and I could use some of your strength right now. - Ann Aguirre Do not fear weakness. Lean on God who will be your strength through every dark storm. - Dana Arcuri I didn't just want your light, your power, your strength. I wanted all of you. I asked for it. I fought for it. But you kept it from me and you did it willingly knowing I needed it. I'm sorry, Sam, I've made my decision. I thought I could do it but I was wrong. It's all or nothing. - Kristen Ashley Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose. - Steve Maraboli The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a nich...

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. - Havelock Ellis The younger man stepped away from the table and came toward me, his whole posture radiating menace. Every Darre woman is taught to deal with such behavior from men. It is an animal trick that they use, like dogs ruffling their fur and growling. Only rarely is there an actual threat behind it, and a woman's strength lies in discerning when the threat is real and when it is just hair and noise. - N K Jemisin He lay before God as a woman opens herself to a man, with legs apart, stomach exposed, arms open. But unlike some women, he did not have the inner strength that allowed them to do such a thing without fear. There was no woman's strength in Mellas at all. - Karl Marlantes

Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men.... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can "be", that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves. - Rollo May The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. - Max Lerner We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it. - Alain Robert

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion. - Robert Redford I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me. - Susan Smith As we seek the Lord ever more diligently, we will surely find Him. We will see clearly that the Lord does not abandon His Church or His faithful Saints. Our eyes will be opened, and we will see Him open the windows of heaven and shower us with more of His light. We will find the spiritual strength to survive even during the darkest night. - Dieter F Uchtdorf

Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart. - Steven Cojocaru A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. - Christopher Reeve I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. - Christopher Reeve

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. - Chinua Achebe Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength. - Napoleon Bonaparte Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength. - Theodore Roosevelt

I have the strength to endure it all. - Moshe Dayan There is strength to endure everything. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one - Bruce Lee Mama told me to make a special point to remember the best times of my life. There are so many hard things to live through, and latching on to the good things will give you strength to endure, she says. So I must remember this day. It is beautiful and this seems like the best time to live and the best place - Nancy E Turner

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. - Confucius You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men. - Benjamin Disraeli The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness. - Paul Harris The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people. - Lydia Sigourney

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated. - Ronald Reagan When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they? - Aeschylus I don't understand." "How can you not understand?" He pointed at her books. "You read novels. Obviously, I'm here to rescue you. Don't I look like Sir Galahad?... My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure - " Something echoed, far away inside the house - the sound of a door slamming. Will said a word Sir Galahad would never have said, and sprang away from the window. - Cassandra Clare True stre...

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind. - John Bacon That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. - William Wordsworth

Maybe we should go along," Shane said. "Strength in numbers, man." Michael smiled at Eve and shook his head. "After she bitch-slapped the Founder? Not a good idea. - Rachel Caine There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better. - Mark Shields Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. - Jesse Ventura

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work. - Kristi Yamaguchi A blanket could be hooked to ropes and attached to the body of a swimmer in training, to provide resistance and increase strength and endurance. Those very same ropes could be used to tie me to my bed, to keep me from falling asleep. - Jarod Kintz

Whitebread was in there, waiting like the fucking pillar of strength she was. That little brunette had out-couraged pretty much every damn person he'd ever metexactly what Blake needed. - Debra Anastasia I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one. - Jamie Kennedy

I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress. - Ann Bancroft And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me. - Alison Bechdel Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. - Franklin D Roosevelt All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative courses of action. - Jim Butcher The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. - Dwight D Eisenhower About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical ...

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. - Oprah Winfrey No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see that sadness through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sadness that comes to us without warning. - Haruki Murakami No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning. - Haruki Murakami Women may fall when there's no strength in men. - William Shakespeare The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strengt...

And I pray mark how he begins: he sets not up trophies to himself, but triumphs in his God-- "I will love thee, O Lord, my strength." As the love of God is the beginning of all our mercies, so love to God should be the end and effect of them all. As the stream leads us to the spring, so all the gifts of God must lead us to the giver of them. - Richard Steele Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness. - Amos Bronson Alcott But that's what you're doing, isn't it? You're part of the fight just as much as the Shadowhunters on the shipand I know you can take some of my strength, I've heard of warlocks doing thatso I'm offering. Take it. It's yours. - Cassandra Clare I don't understand." "How can you not understand?" He pointed at her books. "You read novels. Obviously, I'm here to rescue you. Don't I look like Sir Galahad?... My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure - ...

at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you've ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered. - Cecelia Ahern I'm sorry. I was just thinking of that stupid song, 'Seasons in the Sun.' You know, 'we had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.' Good grief, I should be a mental patient. (Cassandra) You have more strength than any warrior I have known. Don't ever apologize to me again for those few times when you show your fear to me, Cassandra. (Wulf) - Sherrilyn Kenyon Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior. - Georg Brandes You think that because I want to do what's right, because I want to make things better, I'm weak," Claire said. "Or...

Mental strength induces mind and body. - Toba Beta I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time. - Novak Djokovic A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength. - Gary Neville

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.' - Mariah Carey Through adversity, not only are we given an opportunity to discover our inner strength, we are also given the gift of foresight so we can shine a light for others who go through the experience after us. - Rachael Bermingham ...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing. - Terry Brooks Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience. - Dalai Lama When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into...

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss - Jodi Picoult Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength. - Napoleon Bonaparte Men have strength, Miss Ferenczi said, but no true magic. That is why men fall in love with women but women do not fall in love with men: they just love being loved. - Charles Baxter Kurogane: For all my life... I've wanted strength. I didn't want those things precious to me to be taken away from me anymore. But, to have strength means to invite disaster to come to you. And strength alone can't really protect you. - Clamp Men and women have strengths that complement each other. - Edwin Louis Cole All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. - Walt D...