I feel that I contributed well, but my strength and energy in that department is running out. I made, not friendships, never got anywhere like that, but you know I've formed slight bonds with people and they were lovely and gracious (Quote by - Lesley Brain)

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. (Quote by - Vincent Van Gogh)

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. (Quote by - W. E. B. Du Bois)

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)

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. (Quote by - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)

Three failures denotes uncommon strength. A weakling had not enough grit to fail thrice. (Quote by - Minna Antrim)

This struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. (Quote by - Arnold Schwarzenegger)

Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, and your indefatigability. (Quote by - George Galloway)

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. (Quote by - George Sand)

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. (Quote by - Harriet Tubman)

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others. (Quote by - Robert G Ingersoll)

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)

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. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)

As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us that in prayer alone can we be forearmed against our lesser sorrows; that strength to bear flows into the heart that is opened in supplication; and that a sorrow which we are made able to endure is more truly conquered than a sorrow which we avoid (Quote by - Alexander Maclaren)

Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing. (Quote by - Guy Finley)

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. (Quote by - Havelock Ellis)

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. (Quote by - Leonardo da Vinci)

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. (Quote by - Confucius)