When what we introduce into the children's world of ideas and feelings is in line with the direction of the developmental forces of a given stage of life, we strengthen the entire developing person in a way that remains a source of strength throughout that person's life.
— Rudolf Steiner
We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.
I travel seven months a year, so it's a lot of hotels and airplanes. I teach about three hours a day. I always go for a run. I try to lift some weights if I have the time and the strength. But running and teaching, that's my life.
— Royce Gracie
Being a caregiver requires infinite patience, physical and emotional strength, health care navigation skills, and a sense of humor - which can be hard to come by after sleepless nights and demanding days.
— Rosalynn Carter
Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.
— Ronald Reagan
Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.
— Ron Fournier
My mother at a young age put me in bilingual, so my strength is really more in Spanish. Even though I live and I was born and raised in the States, you know, in the Bronx, in Spanish I get my point across. And when I'm writing music, when I'm doing music, it's easier for me, and I know exactly how to express myself.
— Romeo Santos
My family are all mad. But I got a lot of strength from them.
— Roisin Murphy
The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
— Roger Federer
Do I have the mental strength? I left home when I was 13 years old.
— Roberto Mancini
As I explain at some length in my book 'Energy Victory,' during World War II, the American strength in oil production was a decisive advantage for the Allies. Airplanes, ships, and tanks all ran on oil, and we controlled the supply.
— Robert Zubrin
My mother's Maori, and my father's Australian. I take my strength from both my ancestors, and I'm really privileged.
— Robert Whittaker
The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.
— Robert Teeter
Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.
— Robert Redford
Of course I have to work harder because I have my limitations, and I have to prepare better and in a different way my body and mental strength, but that is part of my life.
— Robert Kubica
One of the primary purposes of civilization - and certainly its primary strength - is the guarantee that family life can flourish in unity, peace, and order.
— Robert Kennedy
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
— Robert Henri
A living art of teaching, one that rests on a true understanding of the human being, has a thread of strength running through it that stimulates individual students to participate so that it is not necessary to keep their attention through direct 'individualized' treatment.
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
— Ruby Dee
Picasso's sculpture has incredible strength combined with a lack of pomposity.
— Roy Lichtenstein
God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
— Rosa Parks
Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.
— Ronald Blythe
Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children.
People in football love to talk about mental strength. Well, I'm the strongest dude you're ever going to meet.
— Romelu Lukaku
I'm God's chosen child. I don't worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I've always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you.
— Rohit Shetty
Sometimes I play without any strength or energy, but you have to play, give the best of yourself.
— Robinson Cano
Anfield is the best place in the world to play football; there's no doubt about it. The atmosphere is incredible, and we always get so much strength from our supporters in every single game.
— Roberto Firmino
Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will want to modify their children, enhance their intelligence, their strength and their beauty and all the other so-called desirable characteristics.
— Robert Winston
Family are my greatest source of strength. Emotion - they help me deal with that. One look at them, and I know everything is OK.
The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
— Robert Shea
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
— Robert Peel
Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
The strength people need to proceed along the path of human development can come only from the spiritual worlds.
A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
— Ruby Bridges
When you never see yourself in the mainstream format, you are stripped of the strength of your identity.
— Roy Choi
The heads of the K.G.B. were deeply anti-Semitic and saw in Israel and world Jewry 'a danger which is only second to the main enemy, the United States.' The K.G.B. was intent on destabilizing Israel, totally disproportionate to the country's strength or influence.
— Ronen Bergman
Vladimir Putin is only going to respond to action, strength, and resolve. He's not going to respond to words.
— Ron Johnson
I believe if a sentence is to retain its strength over time, it needs to be carefully made.
— Romesh Gunesekera
There's no way Daniel Bryan can beat me in a Royal Rumble match. It's ridiculous. He's nowhere near as heavy as me; he doesn't have a fraction of the strength I have. There are a lot of ways that Daniel Bryan can possibly beat me.
— Roman Reigns
I am not someone like A. B. de Villiers, Gayle, or Dhoni. I don't have that much power. I have to use my brain to manipulate the field and stick to my strength, which is to hit through the lines.
— Rohit Sharma
I think my biggest strength is that I always keep doing exactly the same thing. There are forwards who go crazy with euphoria, but after a goal, I let myself fall back to the midfield, recharge. Keeping yourself cool and concentrated on your mission.
— Robin Van Persie
I believe to have shown that, at times, the impossible can become possible. It all depends on how much each and every one of us believes in our dreams, in our strength, and in our determination.
— Roberto Baggio
I'm very proud of my heritage and the blood that runs through my veins. I take a lot of strength from that.
The strength of 'Peep Show' has always been that that it's quite traditional, but it's obviously presented in a very new way.
— Robert Webb
Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.
— Robert Reich
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
In government, our chief executives have been lawyers. The great majority of our cabinets and congresses are and have been men trained in the law. They have provided the leadership and the statecraft and the store of strength when it was needed.
