STRENGTH QUOTES IV

quotations about strength

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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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

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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 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


The strongest may have need of more strength.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.

HOWARD THURMAN

The Luminous Darkness: A Personal Interpretation of the Anatomy of Segregation and the Ground of Hope


Strength avails not a coward.

FRANCOIS RABELAIS

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.

STEVE MARABOLI

Life, the Truth, and Being Free


Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible

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Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.

MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN

The Second Neurotic's Notebook

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Lay down your weary tune, lay down
Lay down the song you strum
And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings
No voice can hope to hum

BOB DYLAN

"Lay Down Your Weary Tune"

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Most of us, I believe, admire strength. It's something we tend to respect in others, desire for ourselves, and wish for our children. Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength and other words--like aggression and even violence. Real strength is neither male nor female; but is, quite simply, one of the finest characteristics that any human being can possess.

FRED ROGERS

The World According to Mister Rogers

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In the assurance of strength there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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Never be afraid to expose a weakness in yourself. Exposing a weakness is the beginning of strength.

ROBERT ANTHONY

Beyond Positive Thinking

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"Strength" is the new "skinny", and strength training can compliment anyone in any sport they choose.

ROXANNE HOOPER

"50-year-old Langley lifter proves anything can happen", Langley Advance, July 11, 2017


To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Genealogy of Morals


As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

State of the Union Address, February 2, 1953

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The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.

OVID

Tristia

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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


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"