Quotes about Strength

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

And to know how to demand - with all one's might - what one wants

If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.

When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she's been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn't want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.

Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!

Do not be 'against' anything. Being 'against' weakens you. Be 'for' what you want. Being 'for' empowers you.

The strength of comedy is I don't have to answer to anybody but sometimes you want to learn from other people and see your ideas strengthen by other people.

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.

From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.

People always think that the worst time of my life must have been after the German Grand Prix crash in 1976, which put me in a coma and left me with severe burns. But it wasn't.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

I was born a cripple, with two club feet, and mild polio in the left leg. I was in orthopaedic boots right through to my teenage years and, unfortunately, the fashion then was for light shoes. I discovered very quickly that I had a sharp mind and an exceedingly sharp tongue.