I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me.
— Paul Watson
People don't understand the power of love and family and strength.
— Paul Pierce
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
— Paul Brunton
I think so much of my life had me growing up under extreme poverty and really challenging conditions, with having the police in my neighborhood and seeing the impact of over-incarceration. Having a father love up on me and remind of who I was, and my strength against those conditions, really shaped why I'm an organizer today.
— Patrisse Cullors
What I liked of Mourinho is his work ethic and the way he organizes his team against the opponent. He knows the strength and weakness of the opponent, and he will give the details for what he wants. And for me, that was impressive.
— Patrick Vieira
On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.
— Patrick J. Kennedy
I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.
— Patricia McBride
You have to play to your strengths, and my strength is the amount of content I create.
— Passenger
I'm not glamorous and a bit bland, but I think that's my strength. That may be a reason behind what people say is my good chemistry with many actors.
— Park Shin-hye
I just like to keep things small and subtle and authentic, and ground everything in reality. So that is something that I feel is my strength as a director and I try to achieve as an actor.
— Pamela Adlon
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
— Ovid
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
— Oscar Wilde
Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man's character is strong; no nation's life can be lasting.
— Orson F. Whitney
Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?
— Orison Swett Marden
America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.
— Oriana Fallaci
Our economy, for a long while, has been transitioning from one reliant on industrial strength to one based on digital information. The next step in this transition is a digital economy shaped by connectivity.
— Om Malik
I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.
— Olivia Thirlby
It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.
— Paul von Hindenburg
The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.
— Paul P. Harris
I have a strong belief in creativity in humans. It's our biggest strength.
— Patty Griffin
My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.
— Patrik Baboumian
If you look at Arsenal today, I really enjoy watching them play - they play some really good football - but that is not enough to win football matches or to win competitions. But in our time, we were winning, and we had the strength to not play well but somehow manage to win the game 1-0.
Traditionally, skaters tend to tie their skates very tightly. I tend to just tie my foot down, then in the ankle area, I tend to keep it loose. It gives me better mobility. But also, you're relying on your own strength as opposed to resting on the boot.
— Patrick Chan
The Paris Agreement is an agreement that has really such a huge, huge level of credibility and strength. Not only was it signed by more than 190 countries in record time, it has also been ratified in record time, and it has also, really, also a lot of support form the people, the public in general.
— Patricia Espinosa
Cinema is very important to me. I derive a lot of strength from this art form, and I believe that it is very impactful socio-politically.
— Parvathy
It was truthfully an honor in itself to be able to act face to face with Choi Min Sik. I was really nervous, but his encouragement became a huge strength to me.
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
I gain strength from postive thought and from the daily conversation with God.
— Ottmar Hitzfeld
If I have any strength that would be considered above average, it is that I can read people.
— Oscar Munoz
Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
— Orlando Bloom
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.
— Oprah Winfrey
I think there's strength in being honest and open about yourself and your struggles. But it can also be a challenge. This is my life, I live with my own mental health, and that is happening to me every day. I can talk about it from a position of 'Oh, I've done this' but I'm still living that existence.
— Olly Alexander
There's so much with my character in 'Dredd' that I identify with. She's my favorite character I think I've ever played. She's the most dynamic and fascinating woman that I could even imagine playing, so I love her. What I love about her is that her sensitivity is her greatest strength.
My strength comes from my mom. Just seeing what she had to go through to raise us, she wouldn't make excuses; she wouldn't put her head down. So I guess I looked at adversity right in the eye and took it on.
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
— Paul Cezanne
It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.
— Patti Davis
We live in a cerebral society, in which we have forgotten how fascinating strength is.
I take great pride in recalling that I could open in a play on Broadway or in London's West End and fill a theatre on the strength of my name - Steed's name.
— Patrick Macnee
When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.
— Patricia Neal
There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
— Pat Riley
Diversity is strength. Our cinema and our art forms need to diversify so that it tells all stories, all perspectives.
My father went to catch wild frogs. I was skinny and weak, and my father heard their juice would give me size and strength. It tasted very, very bad... but I had to drink it because I wanted to be a footballer, and everyone said I needed to be bigger and stronger.
— Park Ji-sung
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
— Ossie Davis
Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
— Os Guinness
When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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.
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.
— Olivia Williams
