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Strength Quotes


"A flower blooming in a storm is stronger than a tree blossoming under a rainbow."


"What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude."


"It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces."


"You cannot stop the ocean's current, but you can swim."


"Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them."


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


"There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better."


"I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world."


"Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him."


"Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away."


"I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it."


"When you overcome the difficulties of life, you develop an inner strength."


"Thunder roars but does not strike. Lightning strikes but does not roar. Choose to be lightning."


"Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs."


"The stories I read gives strength to my spirit."


"Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength."


"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."


"Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?"


"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."


"When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid."


"A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head."


"You are strong because of what you overcame, brave because of what you defeated, fierce because of what you mastered, and powerful because of what you conquered."


"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world."


"I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction."


"Encouragement is a blazing hope."


"The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force."


"Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion."


"Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength."


"Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny."


"The survived souls give strength to the suffering souls."


"The soul's hands carry the heart's burdens."


"The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom."
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