STRENGTH QUOTES III

quotations about strength


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It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.

EMILIE AUTUMN
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The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls


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One test of strength is the ability to take defeat graciously.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts


Consciousness of our strength increases it.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


Real strength never impairs beauty of harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.

HERMAN MELVILLE

Moby Dick

Tags: Herman Melville


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

Tags: Homer


Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.

HORACE

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: Horace


Strength is an empty shell.

JACK LONDON

The Iron Heel

Tags: Jack London


By relying on our own resources, we acquire mental strength; but when we lean on others for support, we are like an invalid who having accustomed himself to a crutch, finds it difficult to walk without one.

LADY BLESSINGTON

attributed, Day's Collacon


My strength fades away
Slowly with the setting sun

ZAO

"March"


When a man goes in the fullness of his strength upon any enterprise, how do his blood and spirits triumph beforehand! No motion of hand or foot is without a sensible delight.

JOHN HOWE

"The Blessedness of the Righteous", The Works of John Howe


A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

VERONICA ROTH

Divergent


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

Tags: George Eliot


Strength and skill are happy comrades.

MAUD LINDSAY

"The Giant Energy & the Fairy Skill", Mother Stories

Tags: Maud Lindsay


It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

MAHATMA GANDHI

Wit and Wisdom of Mahatma Gandhi


Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.

TIBETAN PROVERB


Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.

MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN

The Second Neurotic's Notebook

Tags: Mignon McLaughlin


The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength--and strength alone.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

speech, July 3, 1951


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

Tags: Elbert Hubbard


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