STRENGTH QUOTES
quotations about strength
Strength is desirable, yet not a matter for boasting; for in this bulls and wild animals are superior to us.
DIONYSIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
A Farewell to Arms
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
MAHATMA GANDHI
All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
Oh, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Measure for Measure
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
RUDYARD KIPLING
"The Law of the Jungle", The Second Jungle Book
As long as I fear my weakness, I am stronger than when I trust my strength.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Might makes right.
AESOP
"The Wild Ass and the Lion", Aesop's Fables
Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.
ANN LANDERS
attributed, 1,001 Pearls of Wisdom to Build Confidence
You have power over your mind -- not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations
A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
MARILYN MONROE
My Story
We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.
RONALD REAGAN
"Star Wars" speech, March 23, 1983
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up ... discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You Learn by Living
Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands -- and then eat just one of the pieces.
JUDITH VIORST
Love & Guilt & The Meaning of Life
The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque; distortion is the agony of weakness; it is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.
ROBERT ELDRIDGE ARIS WILLMOTT
Pleasures of Literature
At first I was afraid, I was petrified,
Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side
But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong,
And I grew strong, and I learned how to get along.
GLORIA GAYNOR
"I Will Survive"
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
HENRIK IBSEN
An Enemy of the People
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
J. K. ROWLING
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Better to be strong than pretty and useless.
LILITH SAINTCROW
Strange Angels
No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in.
PHILIP K. DICK
Valis
That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Twilight of the Idols