Strength is an empty shell.
JACK LONDON, The Iron Heel
With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by animals, by matter, by the elements, so that everything is performed in the universe by violence. And that order which we blame with some appearance of justice is the most universal, most absolute, most unchangeable, and most ancient law of nature.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims
The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
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
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
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.
ELBERT HUBBARD, The American Bible
The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength--and strength alone.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, speech, Jul. 3, 1951
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
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