STRENGTH QUOTES II
quotations about strength
Why should man boast of his strength; is not the horse stronger than he?
CONFUCIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure.
ALFRED TENNYSON
Sir Galahad
Man is a singular compound of strength and weakness.
J. DE MILLE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Lord gimme strength tonight!
School boy barely seventeen
He's got to play it tough, he's got to play it mean
Locked and loaded on the street
He's got a trigger finger for anyone that he meets, oh oh
He's seen it on the T.V., the hero stands alone
TYKETTO
"Strength in Numbers"
With the new day comes new strength.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945
With the strength of steel
I'll show you how I feel
All the weak will kneel
For the strength of steel
ANVIL
"Strength of Steel"
My strength is that I have no weaknesses.
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA
"Shania Twain impressed by Raonic", Wimbledon, July 11, 2017
My strength fades away
Slowly with the setting sun
ZAO
"March"
The weaker sex is often the stronger sex because of the weakness of the stronger sex for the weaker sex.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength; it is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
JONATHAN SWIFT
"Thoughts on Various Subjects", The Works of Jonathan Swift
Thou shalt not only fly, but also take others on thy wings; for thy strength is given thee wherewith to help the weak.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
J. M. BARRIE
Little Minister
If the ax is dull and its edge unsharpened, more strength is needed, but skill will bring success.
BIBLE
Ecclesiastes 10:10
There are some that are bold and strong and incessant and energetic and hard, and to these is the world's glory; and some are timid and meek and impotent and cowardly and rejected and obscure.
WALTER BAGEHOT
Literary Studies
Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.
HOMER
The Iliad
Many a man's weakness is his fondness for showing off his strength.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
The strength even of weak men when united avails much.
HOMER
attributed, Day's Collacon
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The Conduct of Life
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination.
MAYA ANGELOU
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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