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Strength comes in so many forms. Not just the physical strength, but to understand the emotional strength. To have emotional vulnerability, to show that's not a weakness.

Cory Barlog

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

William Booth

We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

Indra Devi

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

Sophie Swetchine

The power is between your ears.The power is in your heart.

Jim Brown

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Eckhart Tolle

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinger

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

John Ray

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Mahatma Gandhi

Character is power.

Booker T. Washington

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Edmund Burke

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.

Isabel Allende

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

John Kennedy

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

John Lothrop Motley

The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.

John McDonald

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Honore de Balzac

Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.

Vernon Howard

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Lao Tzu

My stamina was my strength.

Cafu

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The power of love far outweighs the power of will.

Jay Shetty

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Vaclav Havel

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Mahatma Gandhi

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Charles Stanley

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

William Shenstone

Power is competence.

Jordan Peterson

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

James Freeman Clarke

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

The greatest power is often simple patience.

E. Joseph Cossman

'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

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Saint Francis de Sales

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Stendhal

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Our passion is our strength.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Strength doesn't mean an absence of pain.

Aja Naomi King

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Napoleon Hill

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

John Dalberg-Acton

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

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Booker T. Washington

Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.

Stafford Cripps

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Friedrich Schiller

Power and strength are most important for my skating.

Nyjah Huston

My strength is my enthusiasm.

Placido Domingo

I believe in the power of weakness.

Pat Buckley

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

Judith Viorst

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

John Ruskin

Self-control is true power.

Marco Pierre White

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Robert Greene

Power and speed be hands and feet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always say that women are very strong and men are powerful. But beauty gives you both strength and power. I never think of it. It's just one of those natural things. It's the only thing I know how to do.

Alber Elbaz

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

James Anthony Froude

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Orison Swett Marden

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

Paul P. Harris

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Cesare Pavese

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

John F. Kennedy

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

William James