quotations about 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
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 least strength suffices to break what is bruised.
OVID
Tristia
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
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
It was a relief to him. It always is, to find the edge of yourself. To know the exact limit of your strength. It's a relief because not knowing it is an exhausting full-time job.
GLEN DUNCAN
By Blood We Live
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
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
Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN
The Second Neurotic's Notebook
Ultimate strength is a measure of the load that breaks a specimen.
LARRY F. JEFFUS
Welding: Principles and Applications
Strength is an empty shell.
JACK LONDON
The Iron Heel
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"
Strength and skill are happy comrades.
MAUD LINDSAY
"The Giant Energy & the Fairy Skill", Mother Stories
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
"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
Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.
JAMES FREY
A Million Little Pieces
Consciousness of our strength increases it.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES
Reflections and Maxims
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
As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
State of the Union Address, February 2, 1953