Quotes about strength

"Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them."

Barrie, Sir James M. on strength   

"The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way."

Beecher, Henry Ward on strength
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"Strength is a matter of a made up mind."

Beecher, John on strength
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"A threefold cord is not quickly broken."

Bible on strength   

"It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on strength
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"It is truly said: It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do."

Chow Ching on strength   

"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong."

Coolidge, Calvin on strength   

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"Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on strength   

"We acquire the strength we have overcome."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on strength
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"There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on strength   

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time."

Freud, Anna on strength
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"Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side."

Froude, James A. on strength   

"The people rate strength before everything."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on strength   

"Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity."

Hare, David on strength   

"We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it."

Jefferson, Thomas on strength
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"We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on strength   

"The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it."

Lec, Stanislaw J. on strength
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"Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show."

McLaughlin, Mignon on strength   

"I judge the relative strength of a man by how envious they become, of others, who enjoy a measure of success."

Munro, Barry on strength   

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on strength
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"Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength."

Olivier, Sir Lawrence on strength
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"Cunning surpasses strength."

Proverb, German on strength   

"What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can."

Proverb, German on strength
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"Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food."

Proverb, Welsh on strength   

"Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion."

Pythagoras on strength   

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft."

Roosevelt, Theodore on strength
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"How excellent it is to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use like a giant."

Shakespeare, William on strength   

"Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished."

Swetchine, Anne Sophie on strength   

"Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of."

Swift, Jonathan on strength   

"The burden is equal to the horse's strength."

Talmud, The on strength   

"Physical strength in a woman -- that's what I am."

Turner, Tina on strength
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"Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back."

Unknown, Source on strength
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"Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands -- and then eat just one of the pieces."

Viorst, Judith on strength
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"There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."

Washington, Booker T. on strength
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"It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong."

Willkie, Wendell L. on strength   

"You expect to break me? Impossible! You broke me years ago. You killed me years ago..."

Manson, Charles on strength
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