Quotes
Quotes about Strength
That tower of strength
Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.
Strength of heart
And might of limb, but mainly use and skill,
Are winners in this pastime.
Be sure that God
Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.
I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on.
Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive,
The blessing lies.
Before the beginning of years
There came to the making of man
Time with a gift of tears,
Grief with a glass that ran,
Pleasure with pain for leaven,
Summer with flowers that fell,
Remembrance fallen from heaven,
And Madness risen from hell,
Strength without hands to smite,
Love that endures for a breath;
Night, the shadow of light,
And Life, the shadow of death.
Chance cannot touch me! Time cannot hush me!
Fear, hope, and longing, at strife,
Sink as I rise, on, on, upward forever,
Gathering strength, gaining breath,--naught can sever
Me from the Spirit of Life!
May I govern my passion with absolute sway,
And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away.
Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.... I well know that mirror of friendship, shadow of a shade.
Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.
The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.
By this story [The Fox and the Raven] it is shown how much ingenuity avails, and how wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.
We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain. Either you already reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.
As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
They go from strength to strength.
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small.
Their strength is to sit still.
Strength is made perfect in weakness.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!--incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam as men who didn't know what fear was, we ought always to add the flea--and put him at the head of the procession.
Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.
