Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson
African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence. Wangari Maathai
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you. Mike Murdock
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. Henry Miller
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. George Eliot
Strength of mind rests in sobriety for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion. Pythagoras
When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence. Stephen Covey
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. James Allen
We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. Betty Friedan
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. John Ruskin
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show. Mignon McLaughlin
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. W. E. B. Du Bois
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. Christopher Reeve
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
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. Theodor Adorno
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has. Mary J. Blige