quotations about strength
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
Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.
HOMER
The Iliad
My strength fades away
Slowly with the setting sun
ZAO
"March"
Strength is an empty shell.
JACK LONDON
The Iron Heel
One test of strength is the ability to take defeat graciously.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
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
Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.
TIBETAN PROVERB
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
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
Consciousness of our strength increases it.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES
Reflections and Maxims
A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
VERONICA ROTH
Divergent
Ultimate strength is a measure of the load that breaks a specimen.
LARRY F. JEFFUS
Welding: Principles and Applications
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
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
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
It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Wit and Wisdom of Mahatma Gandhi
From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle of life to pay due attention to the strength of the body. They may take daily what they consider a sufficient amount of exercise; but the exercise is not calculated to keep the various limbs and muscles, still less the internal organs, in proper working order. Amid the ordinary concerns of life the man may appear strong, even stalwart. But when occasion arises for some special muscular exercise, or taxing the action of some organ, he finds out his weakness.
RICHARD ANTHONY PROCTOR
Strength: How to Get Strong and Keep Strong
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
The greatest strength expires with loss of breath;
The mightiest in one minute stoop to death.
THOMAS DEKKER
Old Fortunatus