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  • I have my own strength. -- Nina Hagen
  • Humble souls are fearful of their own strength. -- William Gurnall
  • The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. -- Paul Cezanne
  • I think my own strengths are in television production. -- Jim Henson
  • He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity. -- Ben Jonson
  • He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. -- William Samuel Johnson
  • He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. -- Cesare Pavese
  • Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong. -- Simon Sinek
  • Don't be afraid of your own strength. -- Diane von Furstenberg
  • He who stands upon his own strength will never stand. -- Thomas Brooks
  • He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. -- Cesare Pavese
  • Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one's own strength. -- Sai Baba
  • God knows your breaking point. You simply don't know your own strength. -- Swami Satchidananda
  • We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength. -- M. Scott Peck
  • God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength -- Charles Spurgeon
  • There is only one right in the world and that right is one's own strength. -- Adolf Hitler
  • We cannot trust in our own strength, but only in Jesus and in his mercy. -- Pope Francis
  • If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him. -- Thomas More
  • No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness. -- Douglas William Jerrold
  • Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent. -- Anatoly Karpov
  • Human beings are like tea-bags. You don't know your own strength until you get into hot water. -- Bruce Laingen
  • None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength. -- Lillian Smith
  • If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep. -- Henry Adams
  • All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength. -- Diane von Furstenberg
  • When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success... -- John Locke
  • disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength, will announce itself by hardly moving its lips -- Chris Cleave
  • Only our own strength, a strong conservative party, can prevent Red-Red-Green from taking power at the federal level in 2017. -- Angela Merkel
  • Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man. -- Marcus Aurelius
  • Trails are used by God to teach you humility and dependence on His grace rather than your own strength. -- Jim George
  • Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others. -- Pope Leo XIII
  • That's what friends are for-to be strong for you when you need a moment to find your own strength. -- Terry Goodkind
  • No one is strong in his own strength, but he is safe by the grace and mercy of God. -- Cyprian
  • If there is a believe that is capable to move mountains it is the believe in our own strength. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • Never underestimate your own strength. You were born for a purpose and are blessed with the power to achieve it. -- Leon Brown
  • Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us. -- Scott Hahn
  • We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
  • Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength. -- Sun Tzu
  • Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away. -- Melissa Manchester
  • Sometimes being let down my a human being is the direct cause for you finding your own strength & depending only on Allah. -- Omar Suleiman
  • We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it. -- Woodrow Wilson
  • An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation. -- Peter Drucker
  • Greatness is achieved when you recognize your own strength. You become unstoppable! Nothing can prevent you from breaking free and claiming the victory. -- Amaka Imani Nkosazana
  • Everything is given by God. All talent, creativity, ability, insight, and strength comes from him. In our own strength we can do nothing. -- Marvin J. Ashton
  • The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest. -- Paul Cezanne
  • God also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and resources. -- Charles R. Swindoll
  • Life as a Christ follower will always be a learning process of depending less on our own strength and more on God's power. -- Lysa TerKeurst
  • What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand! -- George Whitefield
  • It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone. -- Catherine Deneuve
  • Women have their own strengths, like fashion. In technology, we can contribute in a big way in terms of the design of the user interface. -- Weili Dai
  • It is impossible for men by their own strength and natural ability to become Christians, but it is possible for God to make them Christians. -- Ezekiel Hopkins
  • It's what you do to yourself when you go mad with rage. You have no idea how much you can hurt yourself with your own strength. -- Lian Hearn
  • Magick need not be a crutch, but it is hard to argue that anything you lean on in lieu of building your own strength weakens resolve. -- Thomm Quackenbush
  • When you have an ego, you are limited to your own strengths and weaknesses. But if you are totally surrendered to God, nothing is impossible for you. -- Radhanath Swami
  • He was gentle, like a man mindful of his own strength. In my dreams I beheld the kings of the earth standing in awe in His presence. -- Khalil Gibran
  • The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses. -- John Christopher
  • It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
  • The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or lose sight of his/her own strengths. -- Tom Seaver
  • I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him. -- Thomas More
  • When we talk about God, I think what most of us mean is some greater thing, some higher power that can help us access our own strength or give us strength. -- Lori Lansens
  • Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom. -- Rabindranath Tagore
  • He is not seeking a powerful people to represent Him. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and written off: and He inhabits them with His own strength. -- Graham Cooke
  • The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God. -- Soren Kierkegaard
  • The hardest thing is for me to let the work go and let myself just live. Every actor is different; they each have their own strengths and weaknesses; trust and ease are mine. -- Emory Cohen
  • It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength. -- Subhas Chandra Bose
  • Stop waiting for others to tell you what you can do. Start putting faith into your own strengths and talents. Instead of questioning whether you can reach your goals, move forward with conviction and confidence. -- Jane Powell
  • He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive. -- Jack London
  • At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help. -- Vint Cerf
  • At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help. -- Vint Cerf
  • To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way. -- Joel Osteen
  • This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it. -- Daniel Defoe
  • Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of power exercised by others, often in our name. -- Petra Kelly
  • In life, you should seek the help you need. Do not depend on your own strength alone. You have never done all you can to finish a task until you have sought help from the Lord. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away. -- Melissa Manchester
  • Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. -- Jonathan Swift
  • True love goes ever straight forward, not in its own strength, but esteeming itself as nothing. Then indeed we are truly happy. The cross is no longer a cross when there is no self to suffer under it. -- Francois Fenelon
  • Not to borrow the strength of another, nor to rely on one's own strength; to cut off past and future thoughts, and not to live within the everyday mind... then the Great Way is right before your eyes. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • We're not alone--at least, we're alone only if we choose to be alone. We're alone only if we choose to go through life relying solely on our own strength rather than learning to draw upon the power of God. -- Sheri L. Dew
  • We're not alone--at least, we're alone only if we choose to be alone. We're alone only if we choose to go through life relying solely on our own strength rather than learning to draw upon the power of God. -- Sheri L. Dew
  • Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you. -- Corrie Ten Boom
  • No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with the gratitude to the Giver of good who has blessed us. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. -- Marcus Aurelius
  • How easy it is for men to be swollen with admiration of their own strength and glory, and to be lifted up so high as to lose sight both of the ground whence they rose, and the hand that advanced them. -- Joseph Hall
  • Life in general was cruel and offered only different types of voids and chaos. The only way to tolerate it, to have any hope of escaping it, I reasoned, was to know my own strength, to defy life by surviving it. -- Lucy Grealy
  • I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength. -- Hermann Hesse
  • All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone. -- Christian Lous Lange
  • They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there. -- Diana Ross
  • I think digital media is a valid tool, one that has it's own strengths and weaknesses. So often I see people dismissing digital art as somehow cheating or not as valid or important as traditional art, but the computer is just another tool. -- Julie Dillon
  • Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?. -- Abdul Kalam
  • Our great need is to fall before an almighty Father day and night and to plead for him to show his radical power in and through us, enabling us to accomplish for his glory what we could never imagine in our own strength. -- David Platt
  • Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it. -- Saint Augustine
  • Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul. -- Rumi
  • Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate. -- William C. Bryant
  • A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give. -- Stephen King
  • There was a time when I looked to other people for recognition, because I didn't have enough confidence to trust my own judgment. Now I'm not looking for reassurance, because I realize how fickle people are. My own strength is the best I can have. -- Annie Lennox
  • Team leaders have to connect with their team and themselves. If they don't know their team's strengths and weaknesses, they cannot hand off responsibilities to the team. And if they don't know their own strengths and weaknesses, they will not hand off responsibilities to the team. -- John C. Maxwell
  • When we care for others our own strength to live increases. When we help people expand their state of life, our lives also expand. Actions to benefit others are not separate from actions to benefit oneself. Our lives and the lives of others are ultimately inseparable. -- Daisaku Ikeda
  • I don't think there is anyone who needs God's help as much as I do. Sometimes I feel so helpless and weak. I think that is why God uses me. Because I cannot depend on my own strength, I rely on Him twenty-four hours a day. -- Mother Teresa
  • God never asked us to meet life's pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest. -- Charles R. Swindoll
  • Thi is the malady onf the humans, that they can hold on to that which is fleeting and of little consequence and call it everlasting. They focus on awards, achievements, and whatc an be done in their own strength while the Almighty desires to work trough their weakness. -- Chris Fabry
  • Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength. -- Martin Luther
  • We are all models; in piousness or impiousness and we all do possess our own strengths and weaknesses. Our weaknesses give purposeful people the reasons to be purposeful and purposeless people the reasons to stay in wander. If there be anything worth being worked on, it should be our weaknesses -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  • I like strength. I depend on my own. -- Shelby Lynne
  • I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful. -- Madonna Ciccone
  • He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. -- Luc de Clapiers
  • I can't sing, perform, do anything apart from Christ. I have no power or strength of my own. -- Jodi Benson
  • I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity. -- Melissa Etheridge
  • Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. -- Cesare Pavese
  • It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own. -- Madame de Stael
  • Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own. -- Madame de Stael
  • From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength. -- Cesar Chavez
  • Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • Your strength is beyond your own imagination. -- Bryant McGill
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