quotations about strength
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination.
MAYA ANGELOU
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress, January 9, 1958
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The American Bible
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
Strength avails not a coward.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
attributed, Day's Collacon
The greatest strength expires with loss of breath;
The mightiest in one minute stoop to death.
THOMAS DEKKER
Old Fortunatus
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The strength even of weak men when united avails much.
HOMER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.
STEVE MARABOLI
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength--and strength alone.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
speech, July 3, 1951
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The Conduct of Life
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
Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.
TIBETAN PROVERB
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
Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
One test of strength is the ability to take defeat graciously.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
VERONICA ROTH
Divergent
If strength alone ruled, the elephant would be king of the world.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
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