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In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
God didn't give you the strength to get back on your feet so that you can run back to the same things that knocked you down.
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
The serenity prayer, 'God grant me the strength to accept...' That's a prayer that's actually in my car. I say it every day.
When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.
A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.
The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
Only our own strength, a strong conservative party, can prevent Red-Red-Green from taking power at the federal level in 2017.
Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
God of wilderness, God of wildness, lead me to the quiet places of my soul. In stillness, in openness, may I find my strength.
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.
Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.
In Unity there is strength; We can move mountains when we're united and enjoy life - Without unity we are victims. Stay united.
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
If you think, you are late. If you are late, you use strength. If you use strength you get tired. And if you get tired, you die!
The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.
Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be. Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.
The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive."
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.
The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.
A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.
Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.
The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.
Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.
All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.
Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking.
I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.
And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.
Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.