quotations about strength
One test of strength is the ability to take defeat graciously.
LEWIS F. KORNS
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Thoughts
Ultimate strength is a measure of the load that breaks a specimen.
LARRY F. JEFFUS
Welding: Principles and Applications
Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.
HOMER
The Iliad
With the strength of steel
I'll show you how I feel
All the weak will kneel
For the strength of steel
ANVIL
"Strength of Steel"
Consciousness of our strength increases it.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES
Reflections and Maxims
It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.
EMILIE AUTUMN
The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
My strength fades away
Slowly with the setting sun
ZAO
"March"
My strength is that I have no weaknesses.
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA
"Shania Twain impressed by Raonic", Wimbledon, July 11, 2017
It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Wit and Wisdom of Mahatma Gandhi
Strength, if not used to protect, is but weakness.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
A glass of water might be easy to pick up, but try holding it for five minutes. By this dynamic, the strongest people I know are the ones who have been able to sustain their burdens over a course of time.
JACKIE SUMMERS
"Power vs. Strength", The Good Men Project, July 11, 2017
The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength--and strength alone.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
speech, July 3, 1951
Strength and skill are happy comrades.
MAUD LINDSAY
"The Giant Energy & the Fairy Skill", Mother Stories
A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
VERONICA ROTH
Divergent
Strength is an empty shell.
JACK LONDON
The Iron Heel
Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.
HORACE
attributed, Day's Collacon
It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory.
GEORGE ELIOT
The Mill on the Floss
Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN
The Second Neurotic's Notebook
Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The American Bible
Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.
TIBETAN PROVERB