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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
E. O. Wilson on strength

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
Michael Korda on strength

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.
Marlo Thomas on strength

It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
J. C. Watts on strength

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
Cesar Chavez on strength

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
Bryant H. McGill on strength

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
Francois Rabelais on strength

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
Herman Melville on strength

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on strength

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
George Sand on strength

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
Frank Lloyd Wright on strength

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.
James Hetfield on strength

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
James M. Barrie on strength

Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
Sophia Loren on strength

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
Lyndon B. Johnson on strength

A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
Walter Martin on strength

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'
Jimmy Carter on strength

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
Leon Trotsky on strength

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
Ani DiFranco on strength

The virtue of paganism was strength the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
Augustus Hare on strength