Americans enjoy the exciting, cinematic vision of a squad of muscle-bound Goliath boasting Olympian speed, strength, and precision - a group whose collective success is the inevitable consequence of the individual strengths of its members and the masterful planning of a visionary commander.
— Stanley A. McChrystal
Athletes have the same rights everybody else does. If there is a strength in our democracy, it's that we are encouraged to exercise those rights and speak out and hold people in power in check.
— Stan Van Gundy
My being a black woman is not a deficit. It is a strength. Because I could not be where I am had I not overcome so many other barriers. Which means you know I'm relentless, you know I'm persistent, and you know I'm smart.
— Stacey Abrams
So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.
— Sri Mulyani Indrawati
All Anne Lister wanted was a wife, and the other liaisons couldn't commit, but Ann Walker did. She took sacrament with her, and they became wife and wife. That shows extraordinary strength.
— Sophie Rundle
In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.
— Simon Van Booy
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
— Sigmund Freud
I'm not superstitious about good luck charms and all that. I don't have any ring or any tangible thing as a charm. But I like to have at least one of my parents with me during my shows. It gives me strength to find their faces... or my brothers... in the audience. It comforts me.
— Shreya Ghoshal
Swing has always been my strength, and I am also working hard on it.
— Shikhar Dhawan
Through the years, I, like you, have experienced pressures and disappointments that would have crushed me had I not been able to draw upon a source of wisdom and strength far greater than my own. He has never forgotten or forsaken me, and I have come to know for myself that Jesus is the Christ and that this is His Church.
— Sheri L. Dew
I think the years on 'The Donna Reed Show,' the years from 14 to 19, were so incredibly important. Donna Reed was simply an extraordinary woman, a woman of great strength, kindness, integrity and compassion. I am not trying to make her sound like a saint, but she had the most profound influence on me. I carry her with me today.
— Shelley Fabares
We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.
— Sharon Salzberg
Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Though it gives you the power to love someone more than yourself, it becomes difficult to live when you lose something you are attached to. Even when we have lost, we should go beyond that and get truly attached to someone. Loving someone truly is the most beautiful feeling.
— Shahid Kapoor
I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.
— Sextus Propertius
Do what you love at all costs and maintain your faith in God. Nothing we have is of our own strength so as long as we remember where we came from, it will inform us where we are going.
— Ser'Darius Blain
My greatest influence has and always will be my mother. I admire her strength, fearlessness, and optimism.
— Selah Louise Marley
There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort.
— Sean Penn
America needs a big idea that plays to its strength. It should look to national service.
Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.
— Stafford Cripps
Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily.
— Srikumar Rao
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
— Sophie Swetchine
Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
— Sophia Loren
We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered.
— Simon Sinek
I used to play rugby, which requires a lot of physical strength. The game requires you to get aggressive.
— Sidharth Malhotra
A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.
— Shinzo Abe
Once I am in, I can demolish any side because that is my strength.
Our responsibility is to learn to draw upon the power of the Atonement. Otherwise, we walk through mortality relying solely on our own strength.
I like strength. I depend on my own.
— Shelby Lynne
If I can learn how to rely on my own strength, I can see the answers to my problems usually lie right there, within the problem itself.
— Shannon Lee
Every team knows its strength.
— Shahid Afridi
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
I found strength in what hurt me. And in my family - that's my strength as well. I'm truly grateful to be hurt as many times as I have, because I'm happy!
— Selena Gomez
I have never been religious, but I've seen the strength of it.
— Sebastian Lelio
I don't really go out and do too much like networking and Hollywood events kind of thing. But I do some writing, and I find it helps me as an actor in terms of giving yourself back the power and feeling a bit of strength in that respect.
— Scottie Thompson
Strength is leading when you just don't want to lead.
My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.
— Stacy Keach
I fall to pieces when I am hurt, but when it comes to my children, I am a pillar of strength, applying balm and bandages and dressing up their wounds.
— Sridevi
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
All the sudden high-impact stress can really take a toll on your body. So if you still want to be active and get in a good workout, go to a yoga class or pilates class, or get in some strength and conditioning.
— Sophia Bush
When I was younger, I did not have the strength to jump well enough, but over the years I have gained that, worked on it. But the sensibility you simply have to have.
— Simon Ammann
Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.
— Sid Waddell
Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.
— Shimon Peres
The Lord needed the strength of the women of this Church as the seeds of the Restoration were planted and nourished.
Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.
— Shemar Moore
Women, post-menopause, go back to how they were before they started menstruating, and there's this great freedom in a woman's life when she reaches the end of that reproductive cycle, and that most women come into their own strength, the same strength they had as a girl.
— Sheila Heti
I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.
— Shania Twain
My main strength is my bowling, but where I bat, I can also contribute for the team, and that is important.
Now, when you get a viral infection, what normally happens is it takes days or weeks for your body to fight back at full strength, and that might be too late. When you're pre-immunized, what happens is you have forces in your body pre-trained to recognize and defeat specific foes. So that's really how vaccines work.
— Seth Berkley
My strength is translating emotion because I'm such a feeler.
I'll fight with all my strength for change in this country.
— Sebastian Kurz
