quotations about strength
Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.
HORACE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Ultimate strength is a measure of the load that breaks a specimen.
LARRY F. JEFFUS
Welding: Principles and Applications
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 is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Wit and Wisdom of Mahatma Gandhi
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination.
MAYA ANGELOU
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
VERONICA ROTH
Divergent
Consciousness of our strength increases it.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES
Reflections and Maxims
Strength, if not used to protect, is but weakness.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
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
The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength--and strength alone.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
speech, July 3, 1951
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
The greatest strength expires with loss of breath;
The mightiest in one minute stoop to death.
THOMAS DEKKER
Old Fortunatus
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
If strength alone ruled, the elephant would be king of the world.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The American Bible
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
State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress, January 9, 1958
Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.
TIBETAN PROVERB
Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
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
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