Discover Your Inner Strength: Quotes to Empower You - page 122

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
 George MacDonald
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.
 Diane von Furstenberg
It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
 Herbert Spencer
It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.
The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.
 Dick Cheney
Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.
 Philip Wylie
Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
 Fernando Flores
True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in thrush are the bone and marrow of biblical worship.
Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener\'s perfume is another gardener\'s stink.
Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.
 Katharine Sergeant Angell White
All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.
 Marshall B. Rosenberg
False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.
It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed-this, despite the gospel.
 Howard Thurman
The melodies come out so strong that I'm like, "Oh, crap." It's really better if they could both be kind of able to compromise, but the melodies, even more recently, they come out very fully cast and formed.
 Andrew Bird
They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.
 George Mikes
Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
You've got to figure out what it is you love - who you really are - and have the courage to do that.
The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.
The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.
 Tarja Halonen
There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.
 Nicholas Stern