Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
Mignon McLaughlin

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
Ralph W. Sockman

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.
Emmet Fox

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.
Charlotte Bronte

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
Benjamin Banneker

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Barbara Kingsolver

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Anna Freud

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
John Stuart Mill

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
Henry Rollins

While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.
Al Gore

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
Corrie Ten Boom

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
Josephine Baker

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
Karl Von Clausewitz

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
Pearl S. Buck

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
Pearl S. Buck

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
Ninon de Lenclos

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
Jean Anouilh

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Chiang Kai-shek

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
Barbra Streisand