Thy shoes shall be of iron and brass: and as thy days, so shall
thy strength be.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Deuteronomy (ch. XXXIII, v. 25)
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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
Lao Tzu
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
August Wilson
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It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.
Alex Karras
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I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
Oscar Wilde
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais Nin
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And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a
three-fold cord is not quickly broken.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. IV, v. 12)
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And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my
strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will
I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may
rest upon me.
Bible
Quotes , Source: II Corinthians (ch. XII, v. 9)
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For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose:
therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit
still.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Isaiah (ch. XXX, v. 7)
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They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion
appeareth before God.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Psalms (ch. LXXXIV, v. 7)
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A mass enormous! which, in modern days
No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise.
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Quotes , Source: The Iliad (bk. XX, l. 338), (Pope's translation)
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And, weaponless himself,
Made arms ridiculous.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 130)
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What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 130)
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The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.
[Lat., Minimae vires frangere quassa valent.]
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Quotes , Source: Tristia (bk. III, 11, 22)
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I feel like a Bull Moose.
- Theodore Roosevelt,
Theodore Roosevelt
Quotes , Source: on landing from Cuba with his Rough Riders after the Spanish-American War
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Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
Sir Walter Scott
Quotes , Source: Marmion--Introduction (canto I)
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In that day's feats,
When he might act the woman in the scene,
He prov'd best man i' th' field, and for his meed
Was brow-bound with the oak.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Coriolanus (Cominius at II, ii)
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O, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Measure for Measure (Isabella at II, ii)
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Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through
ordeal.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Measure for Measure (Isabella at II, ii)
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So let it be in God's own might
We gird us for the coming fight,
And, strong in Him whose cause is ours
In conflict with unholy powers,
We grasp the weapons he has given,--
The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Quotes , Source: Thor Moral Warfare
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