Quotes about strength

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

— Sir James M. Barrie

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Strength is a matter of a made up mind.

— John Beecher

A threefold cord is not quickly broken.

— Bible

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.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

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

— Calvin Coolidge

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

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Anna Freud

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

— James A. Froude

The people rate strength before everything.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

— David Hare

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

— Thomas Jefferson

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

— Stanislaw J. Lec

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Barry Munro

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

— Sir Lawrence Olivier

Cunning surpasses strength.

— German Proverb

What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.

— German Proverb

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

— Welsh Proverb

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

— Pythagoras

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— William Shakespeare

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

— Anne Sophie Swetchine

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.

— Jonathan Swift

The burden is equal to the horse's strength.

— The Talmud

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

— Tina Turner

Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.

— Source Unknown

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

— Judith Viorst

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

— Booker T. Washington

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.

— Wendell L. Willkie

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

— Charles Manson

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

— Anna Freud

Change your life if your not happy. People love to loathe what they do not understand. I say change is always best.

— KaMila Onikosi

Nothing is as strong as gentleness; Nothing is so gentle as true strength.

— Ralph Sockman