strength Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

48 strength Quotes
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“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
August Wilson Quotes
“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 Quotes
“Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.”
Lao Tzu Quotes
“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 Quotes
“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 Quotes
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Psalms (ch. LXXXIV, v. 7)
“Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes
Source: The Iliad (bk. XV, l. 853), (Pope's translation)
“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)
“Strong are her sons, though rocky are her shores.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes
Source: The Odyssey (bk. IX, l. 28), (Pope's translation)
“And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 130)
“What does not destroy me, makes me strong.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 130)
“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)
“The stronger always succeeds. [Lat., Plus potest qui plus valet.]”
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) Quotes
Source: Truculentus (IV, 3, 30)
“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
“Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.”
Sir Walter Scott Quotes
Source: Marmion--Introduction (canto I)
“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)
“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)
“Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Isabella at II, ii)
“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
“Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.”
Henry Ward Beecher Quotes