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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
Hal Borland on strength

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson on strength

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Ovid on strength

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

Our passion is our strength.
Billie Joe Armstrong on strength

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 on strength

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge on strength

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
Charles Lamb on strength

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.
Doris Humphrey on strength

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.
Lucinda Williams on strength

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.
Franz Kafka on strength

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.
Lyndon B. Johnson on strength

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
Lyndon B. Johnson on strength

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

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Cesare Pavese on strength

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
Anna Quindlen on strength

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
Aeschylus on strength

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
William E. Gladstone on strength

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
Havelock Ellis on strength

Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
Michel Foucault on strength