#strength

The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength. ↗

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

#civilized #effective #equality #fairer #lot

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#accomplish #done #lies #love is #loves

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#away #being #consequences #doing #gives

I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility. ↗

— Mark-Paul Gosselaar

#also #always #been #bike #good

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. ↗

— Billy Graham

#self #shed #sign #strength #tears

Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#men #strength-of-character #superiority #women #equality

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#achieve #achievement #course #desires #develop

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#black #claims #community #does #heard

If Stuart is a freak... it is because he has had the superhuman strength not to be defeated by this isolation. It is because he has had the almost unbelievable social adroitness to be able to fit in smoothly with an educated, soft-skinned person like myself and not make me frightened half to death. If Stuart's a freak, I salute freaks. ↗

— Alexander Masters

#friendship #homeless #strength #stuart-shorter #death

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#child #grappling #grows #instead #lusty