Strong Quotes

Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles to greater effort.

As a strong and proud and intelligent Black man I have no problem expressing my respect for and adoration of the Black woman. Simply put, I love you. I love the Black woman.

I got so strong I felt like a giant.....When I stood on the tee with Arnold and Jack, I was tiny compared to them. But I never believed they were bigger than me. So the mind is so fascinating.

Be who you are and don't allow anyone to affect the confidence you have in your individuality.

Even now I can say I'd love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that.

I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn, Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken. Go Uptown and the Bronx to boogie down, Get strong on the Island, recoup, and lay around.

A quiet conscience makes one strong!

Charisma, that's my strong point. My personality was always good, but with music I had to grow into it. I grew into who I am now.

A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and grief, and pain, I soon shall find my [child] again within the arms of God.

My mother always taught me to be strong and to never be a victim. Never make excuses. Never expect anyone else to provide for me things I know I can provide for myself.

The very truths that gave birth to the Pentecostal movement are today generally rejected as too strong.

Enjoy your family. Do things that you like to do. Stay strong. That's the secret to remaining happy.

A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ.

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.

The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive."

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

Duncan Edwards is the one person who, even today, I really felt inferior to. I've never know anybody so gifted and strong and powerful with the presence that he had.

Youth comes but once a life time. Perhaps, but it remains strong in many for their entire lives.

Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.

I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

All of us need better skills in listening, conversing, respecting one another's uniqueness, because these are essential for strong relationships.

May you have a strong foundation when the winds of change shift...and may you be forever young.

A great storm puts out a little fire but feeds a strong one. Trials conquer weak faith but grow a strong faith.

He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out from the worlds meshes, as a lion from its cage.

Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.

A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.

God has not changed; and His ear is just as quick to hear the voice of real prayer, and His hand is just as long and strong to save; as it ever was.

Marinate in your own being, grow in your wisdom, mature in understanding, be firm in your conviction, be strong in your Self.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.

There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.

Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure.

People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.

Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means

It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.

Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.

If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I'm going.

You are more powerful than you think.

Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong, how hard the battle goes, the day how long, faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.

A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.