quotations about strength
If strength alone ruled, the elephant would be king of the world.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
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
Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.
STEVE MARABOLI
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Strength avails not a coward.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.
HOWARD THURMAN
The Luminous Darkness: A Personal Interpretation of the Anatomy of Segregation and the Ground of Hope
It was a relief to him. It always is, to find the edge of yourself. To know the exact limit of your strength. It's a relief because not knowing it is an exhausting full-time job.
GLEN DUNCAN
By Blood We Live
Lay down your weary tune, lay down
Lay down the song you strum
And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings
No voice can hope to hum
BOB DYLAN
"Lay Down Your Weary Tune"
Most of us, I believe, admire strength. It's something we tend to respect in others, desire for ourselves, and wish for our children. Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength and other words--like aggression and even violence. Real strength is neither male nor female; but is, quite simply, one of the finest characteristics that any human being can possess.
FRED ROGERS
The World According to Mister Rogers
In the assurance of strength there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
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
Never be afraid to expose a weakness in yourself. Exposing a weakness is the beginning of strength.
ROBERT ANTHONY
Beyond Positive Thinking
Strength and skill are happy comrades.
MAUD LINDSAY
"The Giant Energy & the Fairy Skill", Mother Stories
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" is the new "skinny", and strength training can compliment anyone in any sport they choose.
ROXANNE HOOPER
"50-year-old Langley lifter proves anything can happen", Langley Advance, July 11, 2017
To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Genealogy of Morals
With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by animals, by matter, by the elements, so that everything is performed in the universe by violence. And that order which we blame with some appearance of justice is the most universal, most absolute, most unchangeable, and most ancient law of nature.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES
Reflections and Maxims
As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
State of the Union Address, February 2, 1953
Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.
JAMES FREY
A Million Little Pieces
I didn't know my own strength
And I crashed down, and I tumbled
But I did not crumble
WHITNEY HOUSTON
"I Didn't Know My Own Strength"