Strength
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Strength is the ability to produce or withstand great force; to be determined or unyielding.
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- The strong rules and the weak are their slaves - and no one is stronger than me.
- Infamous (video game) character Cole MacGrath.
- Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, VI, 19.
- When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
- Aeschylus, Fragments, l, 298.
- The Lord is my strength and my might, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.
- Exodus 15:2.
- 9 And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
- 2 Corinthians 12:9 (New King James Version).
- O, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.- William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 2, sc. 2 (1603).
- We all have strength enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
- François de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1665–1678), no. 19 (1678).
- When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success; and when we have well surveyed the powers of our own minds, and made some estimate what we may expect from them, we shall not be inclined either to sit still, and not set our thoughts on work at all, in despair of knowing anything; nor on the other side, question everything, and declaim all knowledge, because some things are not to be understood.
- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Introduction, sec. 6 (1689).
- My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure.- Alfred Tennyson, Sir Galahad, st. 1 (1842).
- To ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a will to dominate, a will to subjugate, a will to become master, a thirst for enemies and obstacles and triumphant celebrations, is just as absurd as to ask weakness to express itself as strength.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, "First Essay," section 13 (1887).
- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
- Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book, "The Law of the Jungle", st. 2 (1895).
- The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, ch. 29 (1969).
- The strong are sometimes wrong but the weak are never free.
- Heaven 17, 'Come live with me' (song lyrics).
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- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 756.
- My strength is made perfect in weakness.
- II Corinthians, XII, 9.
- As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
- Deuteronomy, XXXIII, 25.
- A threefold cord is not quickly broken.
- Ecclesiastes, IV, 12.
- Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.
- Homer, The Iliad, Book XV, line 853. Pope's translation.
- A mass enormous! which, in modern days
No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise.- Homer, The Iliad, Book XX, line 338. Also in, Book V. 371. Pope's translation.
- Strong are her sons, though rocky are her shores.
- Homer, The Odyssey, Book IX, line 28. Pope's translation.
- Their strength is to sit still.
- Isaiah, XXX, 7.
- And, weaponless himself,
Made arms ridiculous.- John Milton, Samson Agonistes (1671), line 130.
- Minimæ vires frangere quassa valent.
- The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.
- Ovid, Tristia, Book III, 11, 22.
- Plus potest qui plus valet.
- The stronger always succeeds.
- Plautus, Truculentus, IV, 3, 30.
- They go from strength to strength.
- Psalms, LXXXIV, 7.
- I feel like a Bull Moose.
- Theodore Roosevelt, on landing from Cuba with his Rough Riders, after the Spanish War.
- Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
- Walter Scott, Marmion (1808), Introduction, Canto I.
- In that day's feats,
* * * * * *
He prov'd best man i' the field, and for his meed
Was brow-bound with the oak.- William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (c. 1607-08), Act II, scene 2, line 99.
- 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, The Moral Warfare.
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- Strength is Life. Weakness is Death.
- Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
- He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
- Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
- Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
- Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
- Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
- Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
- Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
- Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
- Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.
- Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
- We acquire the strength we have overcome.
- A man can never know how strong he really is until he is beaten, torn, shattered...until he is broken beyond despair, on his knees in pain...and without even knowing how or why...stands back up.
