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Strength Quotes


"We must keep both our femininity and our strength."


"Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong."



"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength."


"Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career."


"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."


"Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based."


"A seed rises from dirt to prove to the world that its greatness lies not on what the world thinks of it, but from within."


"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."


"He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity."


"Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved."


"The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still."


"That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."


"Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai."


"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."


"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."


"A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty."


"Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible."


"Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces."


"Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success."


"I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic."


"Let This Darkness Be a Bell TowerQuiet friend who has come so far,feel how your breathing makes more space around you.Let this darkness be a bell towerand you the bell. As you ring,what batters you becomes your strength.Move back and forth into the change.What is it like, such intensity of pain?If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine.In this uncontainable night,be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses,the meaning discovered there.And if the world has ceased to hear you,say to the silent earth: I flow.To the rushing water, speak: I am."


"Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own."


"Smiling through confusion is courage. Smiling through tears is strength. Smiling through pain is power. Smiling through tragedy is greatness."


"The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization."


"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."


"Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own."


"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."
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