#strength

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#about #bottled #could #courage #did

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time. ↗

— Anna Freud

#comes #confidence #i #looking #myself

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. ↗

— Ruth Gordon

#important #like #muscle #strengthened #use

Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry. ↗

— Jack Herer

#dry #ever #fiber #full #hemp

I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength. ↗

— Black Elk

#find #gift #good #i #know

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. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#along #become #cutting #desire #desires

I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

#give #give me #i #i love #knew

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength. ↗

— Meir Kahane

#decency #east #gentleness #goodness #impresses

To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas. ↗

— Philip Kaufman

#entertainments #fun #ideas #idle #joy

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people. ↗

— Bob Keeshan

#consider #encounters #everyday #gentle #good