Power & Strength Quotes

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

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.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

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

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

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.

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.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

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.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Strength doesn't mean an absence of pain.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

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.

Our passion is our strength.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Character is power.

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.

I believe in the power of weakness.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

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

We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

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.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

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.

Power and strength are most important for my skating.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

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

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

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

My strength is my enthusiasm.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

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

My stamina was my strength.

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

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

Self-control is true power.

Power is competence.

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

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.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

The power of love far outweighs the power of will.