In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Lao Tzu

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Sigmund Freud

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
Sigmund Freud

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
Martin Luther

You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.
Joan Crawford

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
Les Brown

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
John C. Maxwell

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Edgar Allan Poe

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
Leo Buscaglia

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
Leo Buscaglia

Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience.
Jerry Garcia

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Only the gentle are ever really strong.
James Dean

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius

I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. "You're fired" is a very strong term.
Donald Trump

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Douglas MacArthur

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Patrick Henry