A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it’s important to show that even under all this strength there’s a fragile side, a side that can be affected.
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I’ve learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn’t need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players’ performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.
The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city’s biggest strength, and it is Toronto’s unique strength.
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.
Victoria’s Secret is really about celebrating women and what they stand for: the strength.
Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.
My strength is that I’m an empath.
Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball I’m definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out.
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It’s their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I’m a complete overthinker about everything.
I believe that my greatest strength is a deep-rooted, unshakeable trust to never let myself give up.
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.
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That’s success.
Self-belief, I think, is my biggest strength. The mental toughness comes into play whenever the chips are down.
It’s so easy to be there when it’s all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
Old age is not a disease – it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
Love for your work, love for another person, love for yourself – love is a huge pond, and it’s never empty. You can go and take from it, and it will give you strength.
God gave me the strength to see, and breathe, and talk.
A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
