STRENGTH QUOTES III

quotations about strength

One test of strength is the ability to take defeat graciously.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts


A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

VERONICA ROTH

Divergent


Ultimate strength is a measure of the load that breaks a specimen.

LARRY F. JEFFUS

Welding: Principles and Applications


Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.

HORACE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

MAHATMA GANDHI

Wit and Wisdom of Mahatma Gandhi


Consciousness of our strength increases it.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


The greatest strength expires with loss of breath;
The mightiest in one minute stoop to death.

THOMAS DEKKER

Old Fortunatus

Tags: Thomas Dekker


Strength, if not used to protect, is but weakness.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

Tags: Lewis F. Korns


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


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


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

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Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.

TIBETAN PROVERB


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

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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


If strength alone ruled, the elephant would be king of the world.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible

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The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength--and strength alone.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

speech, July 3, 1951


Strength and skill are happy comrades.

MAUD LINDSAY

"The Giant Energy & the Fairy Skill", Mother Stories

Tags: Maud Lindsay


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

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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