I couldn't change by myself. I needed my faith and belief in Christ to give me the strength to break free and allow people to help me to change.
I'm not saying that every time I race I go to the very limit of my strength. But when the opportunity appears I consider it immoral not to take them.
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.
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.
I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.
I loved Catherine Deneuve, Sophia Loren, and Ursula Andress. They had an incredible strength but fragility at the same time, especially Catherine Deneuve, who had an aloofness that impressed me.
The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.
I see myself as a survivor, and I'm not ashamed to say I'm a survivor. To me, survivor implies strength, implies that I have been through something and I made it out the other side.
I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
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.
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.
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.
The future belongs to us, because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment, we have the resourcefulness, and we have the strength of our people to share the dream across Africa of clean water for all.
Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such.
I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.
As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
While Justin Trudeau uses the slogan, 'Diversity is our strength,' he has demonstrated time and again that he does not extend that diversity to thought or conscience.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.
I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
There's something that's sexy about a guy who has the strength to kill somebody, but is also vulnerable enough to be in love. It's just those two sides - like, I don't know why, but women for some reason aren't attracted to normal guys, like, guys who are in between.
When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.
I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.
To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor.
To me, the biggest attraction is a woman's charisma, her soul, her inner strength.
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
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.
I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
The scars in my face are the source of my strength.
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.