quotations about strength
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
Notice: Undefined variable: id in /hermes/walnacweb03/walnacweb03ak/b2149/pow.notablequote/htdocs/s/includes/quoter_subj.php on line 37
Moby Dick
Strength, if not used to protect, is but weakness.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
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
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
Ultimate strength is a measure of the load that breaks a specimen.
LARRY F. JEFFUS
Welding: Principles and Applications
One test of strength is the ability to take defeat graciously.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
My strength fades away
Slowly with the setting sun
ZAO
"March"
Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.
HORACE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.
HOMER
The Iliad
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
Strength is an empty shell.
JACK LONDON
The Iron Heel
Strength and skill are happy comrades.
MAUD LINDSAY
"The Giant Energy & the Fairy Skill", Mother Stories
It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Wit and Wisdom of Mahatma Gandhi
A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
VERONICA ROTH
Divergent
Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN
The Second Neurotic's Notebook
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
The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength--and strength alone.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
speech, July 3, 1951
Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.
TIBETAN PROVERB
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
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