1. The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength. - Robert Browning 

2. I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity. - Michelle Obama 

3. Right now, when we're hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been - and will always be - our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States. - Michelle Obama 

4. People do not lack strength; they lack will. - Victor Hugo 

5. 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 

6. 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 

7. 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

 8. Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. - Billy Graham 

9. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. - George Orwell 

10. Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. - Sigmund Freud 

11. Extraordinary circumstances often bring along with them extraordinary strength. No man knows, till the experiment, what he is capable of effecting. - William Godwin 

12. From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That's what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest. - Jane Goodall 

13. Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. - Aldous Huxley 

14. 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 

15. Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he failed, he grows out of use. - Francis Bacon 

16. 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 

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

18. The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. - Thomas Paine 

19. The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. - Thomas Paine 

20. From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength. - Cesar Chavez 

21. Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber; if you don't like bacteria, you invent penicillin; if you want to communicate faster, you invent the Internet. Once speech evolved, all of human life changed. - Tom Wolfe 

22. It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. - Walter Scott 

23. In government, our chief executives have been lawyers. The great majority of our cabinets and congresses are and have been men trained in the law. They have provided the leadership and the statecraft and the store of strength when it was needed. - Robert Kennedy 

24. Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty. - Robert Kennedy 

25. One of the primary purposes of civilization - and certainly its primary strength - is the guarantee that family life can flourish in unity, peace, and order. - Robert Kennedy 

26. You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men. - Benjamin Disraeli 

27. 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 

28. I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength. - W. E. B. Du Bois 

29. Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 

30. God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 

31. God's grace is amazing! We're saved by grace - God's undeserved favor - and we live by grace, which is also God's power in our lives to do what we could never do in our own strength. And it's all because God is love, and He loves us unconditionally, constantly and completely. - Joyce Meyer 

32. Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub. - Erma Bombeck 

33. Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree. - Blaise Pascal 

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

35. Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground. - Frank Lloyd Wright 

36. When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they? - Aeschylus 

37. May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea. - Swami Vivekananda 

38. You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have. - J. R. R. Tolkien 

39. When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness. - Henri Nouwen 

40. A lot of my strength came from my upbringing. - Ruby Bridges 

41. Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. - Robert Louis Stevenson 

42. It's a real strength for me that I've never minded the training process. It's something I enjoy. I really like being in the gym or, certainly, on the field. - Tom Brady 

43. I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself. - Henry Rollins 

44. For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes. - Henry Rollins 

45. When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. - Audre Lorde 

46. The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. - Audre Lorde 

47. The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier. - Sam Houston 

48. It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength. - Michel de Montaigne 

49. Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross 

50. I have always drawn strength from being close to home. - Arthur Ashe 

51. The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom. - George W. Bush 

52. The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength. - George W. Bush 

53. Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista's tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people. - Fidel Castro 

54. The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 

55. What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group. - Gloria Steinem 

56. A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. - Marcel Proust 

57. Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. - Henry Ward Beecher 

58. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. - Henry Ward Beecher 

59. To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength. - Norman Schwarzkopf 

60. Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. - John Ruskin 

61. The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. - John Ruskin 

62. We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered. - Simon Sinek 

63. If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

64. We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

65. The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength! - Marianne Williamson 

66. Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day. - Mattie Stepanek 

67. The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born. - Malala Yousafzai 

68. Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. - Thomas Carlyle 

69. With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort to consume this product and that the project is being consumed by just one person at a time. I really want to play to that strength because it's one of the few advantages books still have. - Chuck Palahniuk 

70. A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head. - Elizabeth I 

71. Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character. - Arnold Palmer 

72. 'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship. - Thomas Fuller 

73. I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work. - Wayne Gretzky 

74. My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate. - Katharine Hepburn 

75. Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations. - Montesquieu 

76. Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character. - Baruch Spinoza 

77. God has always given me the strength to say what is right. - Rosa Parks 

78. 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 

79. When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. - Tecumseh 

80. On the world stage, Donald Trump will lead from strength. - Mike Pence 

81. 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 

82. I never won anything by myself. I was always strong because of help that gave me extra strength to win. - Dan Gable 

83. The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight. - Jim Mattis 

84. What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God. - Rick Warren 

85. Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him. - Ellen G. White 

86. The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God. - Ellen G. White 

87. It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ. - Ellen G. White 

88. If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this. - Ellen G. White 

89. 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 

90. A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others. - Indira Gandhi 

91. I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked. - Anne Lamott 

92. I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim. - Queen Elizabeth II 

93. 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. - Queen Elizabeth II 

94. My being a black woman is not a deficit. It is a strength. Because I could not be where I am had I not overcome so many other barriers. Which means you know I'm relentless, you know I'm persistent, and you know I'm smart. - Stacey Abrams 

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

96. Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. - Ovid 

97. I have the people behind me and the people are my strength. - Huey Newton 

98. The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know. - Alicia Keys 

99. The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way. - Robert Kiyosaki 

100. Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. - Robert Kiyosaki