quotations about strength
Strength and skill are happy comrades.
MAUD LINDSAY
"The Giant Energy & the Fairy Skill", Mother Stories
Samson, like many other heroes, showed his strength among men, and his weakness among women.
JAMES LINEN
attributed, Day's Collacon
Strength is an empty shell.
JACK LONDON
The Iron Heel
Strength is the boy or girl down the hall from me in the hospital who is laughing and coloring just a few days after open-heart surgery.
BRITTANY FOSTER
"It's Time to Redefine What Strength Really Means", Pulmonary Hypertension News, June 20, 2017
I didn't know my own strength
And I crashed down, and I tumbled
But I did not crumble
WHITNEY HOUSTON
"I Didn't Know My Own Strength"
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
Like the strength of a flower, pushing up through the earth
Like the strength of the rain, soaking into the ground
Like the strength of a fish, swimming against the flow
Like the strength of the sun, melting the winter snow
Like the strength of a bird, flying into the wind
Like the strength of the wind, lifting the desert sand
Like the strength of the tide, shaping the rocks and land
Like the strength of the ice, carving the mountainside
How wonderful this world
A fragment of a fiery sun
How wonderful this life
How fragile and how bold
IONA
"Strength"
It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.
JON KRAKAUER
Into the Wild
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
ALBERT CAMUS
Return to Tipasa
As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
State of the Union Address, February 2, 1953
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
RICHARD E. BYRD
Alone
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success; and when we have well surveyed the powers of our own minds, and made some estimate what we may expect from them, we shall not be inclined either to sit still, and not set our thoughts on work at all, in despair of knowing anything; nor on the other side, question everything, and declaim all knowledge, because some things are not to be understood.
JOHN LOCKE
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Though cares and sorrows e'er must come,
Though heart be rent,
I know that God will give me strength,
When mine is spent.
ARDELIA COTTON BARTON
"The Peace That Passeth Understanding"