Talk:Strength

Possible source

Received this via OTRS Ticket:2012052510000386, reposted with permission:

> RE: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Strength
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> The following quote is listed as "unsourced":
> 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.
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> A possible source is given as Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous
Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor, ed., 1858
> as quoted in Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual
Healing edited by Larry Chang, p 676
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> See [1]
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That is all the information provided in the email. Rjd0060 (talk) 22:56, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

• Thanks for passing this along; but doesn't OTRS advise people that anyone can edit? It might be very helpful to encourage people to post this sort of information for themselves. ~ Ningauble (talk) 19:13, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

• I reviewed the 1858 edition of Life Thoughts scanned by GoogleBooks, and confirmed that the quoted passage appears on page 52. The punctuation is slightly different from that given by Chang. I added a citation to Life Thoughts in the article. ~ Ningauble (talk) 19:14, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

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• Strength is Life. Weakness is Death.
  • Swami Vivekananda

• Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
  • Francis Bacon

• Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
  • Euripides

• Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
  • Mohandas Gandhi

• Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger

• Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
  • John Beecher

• 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.
  • Daisaku Ikeda

• Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
  • Adolph Hitler

• We acquire the strength we have overcome.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

• 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.
  • Thomas F. Lerchenfelt Jr.

Tangential

• If you take something like Cthulhu in Lovecraft, for example, it is completely incomprehensible and beyond all human categorization. But in the game Call of Cthulu, you see Cthulhu's “strength,” “dexterity,” and so on, carefully expressed numerically.
  • China Miéville, in Joan Gordon Reveling in Genre: An Interview with China Miéville, Science Fiction Studies, #91, Volume 30, Part 3, (November 2003)