The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.
— Zygmunt Bauman
People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.
— Zoe Saldana
I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.
— Zach Gilford
Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
— Yvette Nicole Brown
In the NBA, you have a better diet and strength coaches to make you better physically. And the number of coaches, it makes me feel like there's more of them than us players.
— Yuta Watanabe
In 2013, after a challenging two years of long-term IV antibiotics and six weeks at a clinic in florida, I received the 'Star Light' award from the Lyme Research Alliance for my advocacy and strength to light the way of Lyme disease awareness.
— Yolanda Hadid
The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
— Yair Lapid
Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
— Xenophanes
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
— Woodrow Wilson
Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that.
— Wladimir Klitschko
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
— Winston Churchill
What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.
— Winona LaDuke
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
— William Wordsworth
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
— William Samuel Johnson
President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.
— William J. Clinton
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
— William Hazlitt
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
— William Ellery Channing
To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
— Zsa Zsa Gabor
Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.
— Zig Ziglar
I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.
— Zac Goldsmith
There were times when chemo would eat my body, but I told myself that I have the strength and courage to win and come out stronger.
— Yuvraj Singh
I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.
— Yuan Yuan Tan
On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.
— Yi So-Yeon
Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
— Xun Kuang
It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.
There's no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Naturally, we stress it, break it up, reassemble it to suit our own needs. But it is there - a source of vital strength.
— Wole Soyinka
People are deeply interested in rewriting the established narratives and challenging what we see as the norm in every way. We want to see a new definition of beauty and sexy. We want to see different people look vulnerable and show strength and redefine what it means to be strong.
— Winston Duke
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
I want to show everyone in this world that the soul is the source of our happiness, strength and health. Love actually comes from the soul, from the light.
— Wim Hof
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
— William Shenstone
Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.
— William Moulton Marston
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
— William Gurnall
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
— William E. Gladstone
I sort of consider myself a comedic actress, not a comedienne. I think it's different. You know, I'm not a stand-up or anything, but playing into comedic situations is sort of where, I think, my strength lies.
— Zooey Deschanel
There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.
— Zhang Zhidong
More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world. We are well-connected, we have ample capacity, and we are starting from a position of strength. The problem is that we don't use that capacity well.
I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?
The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it; making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go.
— Young Buck
For me, it has been very important to grow up knowing about my mom's work and that she was always, at every moment, supporting me and teaching me to have this strength.
— Yalitza Aparicio
You know that neither numbers nor strength give the victory, but that side which, with the assistance of the gods, attacks with the greatest resolution is generally irresistible.
— Xenophon
I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength.
— Woody Harrelson
You can train your mental strength just like you train your body. If your body looks fit or ripped, it looks strong, and you can flex your muscles. So, physically, you have a certain strength. Mentally, it's the same thing. You can train your psychological strength.
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.
— Willie Aames
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
— William Shakespeare
Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.
The infinite variety in the properties of the solid materials we find in the world is really the expression of the infinite variety of the ways in which the atoms and molecules can be tied together, and of the strength of those ties.
— William Henry Bragg
Extraordinary circumstances often bring along with them extraordinary strength. No man knows, till the experiment, what he is capable of effecting.
— William Godwin
