Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
Later in life, when my kids struggle to understand a tricky concept or master a new skill, I want them to have the strength and experience to tell themselves, 'I don't know how to do this... yet!' I want them to be confident that, even if something seems challenging today, they have what it takes to figure it out.
My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system; strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density; core strength exercise for a stable mid-section; and stretching to maintain mobility.
Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.
There is a lot of struggle in being an actor; you need so much emotional strength, no matter what level of stardom you have, that it's nice to have something steady.
I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.
My parents, especially my mother, has been my pillar of strength.
My mother was my pillar of strength.
Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.
For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything.
Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.
There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort.
My strength is translating emotion because I'm such a feeler.
Do what you love at all costs and maintain your faith in God. Nothing we have is of our own strength so as long as we remember where we came from, it will inform us where we are going.
Now, when you get a viral infection, what normally happens is it takes days or weeks for your body to fight back at full strength, and that might be too late. When you're pre-immunized, what happens is you have forces in your body pre-trained to recognize and defeat specific foes. So that's really how vaccines work.
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.
Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Though it gives you the power to love someone more than yourself, it becomes difficult to live when you lose something you are attached to. Even when we have lost, we should go beyond that and get truly attached to someone. Loving someone truly is the most beautiful feeling.
I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.
We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.
I think the years on 'The Donna Reed Show,' the years from 14 to 19, were so incredibly important. Donna Reed was simply an extraordinary woman, a woman of great strength, kindness, integrity and compassion. I am not trying to make her sound like a saint, but she had the most profound influence on me. I carry her with me today.
A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.
I used to play rugby, which requires a lot of physical strength. The game requires you to get aggressive.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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.
All Anne Lister wanted was a wife, and the other liaisons couldn't commit, but Ann Walker did. She took sacrament with her, and they became wife and wife. That shows extraordinary strength.
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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.
Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.
I have a condition called Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), which has affected my growth and bone strength. In short, people with the kind of OI I have generally experience hundreds of fractures in their lifetime and use wheelchairs for mobility.
I've really learned to build this inner strength and inner confidence of knowing that I can get through anything because I know what I've pushed through in the past.
When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.
It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.
Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.
Strength training is a fantastic microcosm for a man's life: pushing yourself through discomfort, every single day, is the only way to make measurable progress. It's one of the few ways to grow as a man.
Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball I'm definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out.
I'm probably the least flexible athlete you'll find. When it comes to yoga, I can't get in the positions and I can't hold them. You have to be pretty flexible to do it. Once you get certain positions, you have to have the core strength to hold those positions. It's a pretty good workout.
You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.
When you expand a business as fast as McDonald's did, part of the strength you have is the process and the efficiency.
An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.
Along with my will power, it was my parents who stood by me like a pillar of strength in my most challenging phase of life.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.