I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

My parents, especially my mother, has been my pillar of strength.

Every burden is a blessing.

Peace comes through strength, not through retreat.

America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and enhance that standard of living, America should continue to embrace those qualities which have made America great: openness and dynamism. Openness to new technologies, new ideas and new people is America's greatest source of strength.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.

If you are playing on a turning wicket, toss plays an important role. The team that wins the toss gets an opportunity to play on the fresh wicket. You should always prepare the wicket as per team's strength. But a rank turner might backfire.

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Jimmy Fallon's strengths are that he's fun, and he's good at impressions, and he's musically inclined. And my strength is that I'm a joke writer, but I also have no filter, and I think that that's not a talent per se, but it's just a thing about myself that I have found that people like about what I do.

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children, I'm going to work for it - even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.

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

You ever try to beat your dad up? It just don't happen. He's got that old man strength.

When I was younger, my feet would hurt a lot, but you build up calluses and strength, and you don't feel as much pain there. But then again, it's a give and take. The older you get, you may feel pain in your back or your hips.

I had always been proud of my body - its strength and grace enabled me to pursue my passions.

We may not have the cheapest labor costs, but where we can compete is innovation. Historically, that's been Connecticut's strength, and it can be again.

We live in a world where to admit anything negative about yourself is seen as a weakness, when it's actually a strength. It's not a weak move to say, 'I need help.' In the long run, it's way better, because you have to fix it.

When you expand a business as fast as McDonald's did, part of the strength you have is the process and the efficiency.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.

We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.

I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.

On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

I pored over art books and absorbed the placidness of Monet's garden, the sparkling color of the Impressionists, the strength and solidity of Michelangelo's figures showing the titanic power of humans at one with God, Jan Vermeer's serene Dutch women bathed in gorgeous honey-colored light... My conviction grew that art was stronger than death.

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

I've been doing a lot of deadlifting and squatting for overall strength.

Parents talk a lot about how much strength and dedication it takes to raise a child. I think it also takes a lot of strength and dedication to carve out a life that doesn't seem normal to anyone else.

My brother and I have matching tattoos on our arms. It says, 'Humility is strength,' in Portuguese and Italian, because my genius brother taught English in both Italy and Brazil.

I think our big tent is our greatest strength.

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.

There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.

Evolution is ultimately why cancer is so deadly. Take two biopsies from different sides of a tumor, and they can be genetically very different, making it that much harder to fight. Variation is the toolbox of evolution, and this variation gives cancer strength.

I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing.

I'm God's chosen child. I don't worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I've always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you.

Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.

I believe that the strength in America is individual families and communities.

I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.

We train six days a week, and each day includes some type of running or strength workout. It's all about getting functionally stronger in the positions that matter for racing, which means balancing the strength between my quads and hamstrings.

My mother was the strength. She was the anchor. She was a preacher and a teacher.

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

In my opinion, the motion picture is the greatest medium of expression ever invented. It embraces all the other arts. The films that have the greatest unity, the greatest overall strength, and give the most satisfaction to the viewer, have been those in which a guiding hand was imposed in every section of the film's many divisions.

The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent's playing ability is comparable, does the game develop.

If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.