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Quotes About Strength

The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory
~ Mahatma Gandhi
When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.
~ Lou Gehrig
Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.
~ Thomas Lickona
Never treat somebody's cleverness as his life's smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness.
~ Anuj
Everyman is me. I am his brother. No man is my enemy. I am Everyman and he is in and of me. This is my faith, my strength, my deepest hope, and my only belief.
~ Kenneth Patchen
Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.
~ Jane Fonda
What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.
~ Saint Augustine
O, do not pray for easy lives.
~ Phillips Brooks
It was when I entered the military preparatory school and put on its uniform, that a feeling of strength came to me, as if I had become master of my own destiny.
~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.
~ Bear Grylls
God stands in no need of our strength or wisdom, but of our ignorance, of our weakness; let us but give these to Him, and He can make use of us in winning souls.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.
~ Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw
But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.
~ Kathleen Norris
Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.
~ Gordon Lightfoot
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
~ Thomas Paine
You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.
~ George MacDonald
When we know about our ancestors, when we sense them as living and as supporting us, then we feel connected to the genetic life-stream, and we draw strength and nourishment from this.
~ Philip Carr-Gomm
Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Real strength has to do with helping others.
~ Fred Rogers
Eagles don't catch flies.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.
~ Alison Bechdel
Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Now to act with integrity, according to that strength of mind and body with which our creator hath endowed each of use, appears necessary for all.
~ John Woolman