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“I stress the strength of our economy because it is essential to the strength of our nation. And what is true in our case is true in the case of other countries. Their strength in the struggle for freedom depends on the strength of their economic and their social progress. We would be badly mistaken to consider their problems in military terms alone. For no amount of arms and armies can help stabilize those governments which are unable or unwilling to achieve social and economic reform and development. Military pacts cannot help nations whose social injustice and economic chaos invite insurgency and penetration and subversion. The most skillful counter-guerrilla efforts cannot succeed where the local population is too caught up in its own misery to be concerned about the advance of communism.”

“True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.”

“Outliers are those who have been given opportunities—and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.”

“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.”

“You can't have pride without humility. Aggression without tolerance. Strength without compassion. Power without restraint.”

“If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.”

“If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.”

“Ye always carry your women wi ye into battle, Ian Og. They're the root of your strength, man.”

“The emerging woman… will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied… strength and beauty must go together.”

“The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.”

“I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.”

“Oh, if God would but give me strength to strangle him in my last agony, I’d go to hell with joy.”

“There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.”

“Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.”

“Some athletes use the mind to try and improve stamina and strength. Can I use my mind to take it away?”

“Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.”

“I shall collect our whole strength, and watch the motions of the enemy; and pursue such measures, for the future, as circumstances render necessary.”

“Aspirations pure and high —
Strength to do and to endure —
Heir of all the Ages, I —
Lo! I am no longer poor!”

“If I gaze at a comet with all the strength of my soul,
It cannot stir from the spot while my eyes are upon it.”