Quotes About Strength

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Luxury, so far as it reaches the people, will do good to the race of people; it will strengthen and multiply them. Sir, no nation was ever hurt by luxury; for, as I said before; it can reach but a very few.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Old age is not a disease- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

Sometimes it's the princess who kills the dragon and saves the prince.

Religion for them, as Régis Debray put it, is not "the opium of the people, but the vitamin of the weak.

Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.

I also believe that the most meaningful change, where individuals can triumph over both entropy and evolution as it were, comes when people use empirical knowledge against good taste, use strength against power, skill against art, and technology against science in their easiest and unthinking modes.

held all his flickering presence, gentle as mist in my arms, hard as metal.

His bare foot was calloused enough for gravel and glass. But ash kept working between his foot and his remaining sandal to grind like finest sand, work its way under, and silt itself with his sweat. His heel was almost sore.

What's more, I was free to do anything that did not hurt others that strengthened me and helped me in the one thing that we are all put on this earth to do: help one another - because it is the only thing that, in the long run, gives us pleasure, as receiving love and friendship and affection is the only thing that gives us joy and ameliorates the dread of our inevitable extinction.

There are times when you must walk by yourself because it hurts so much to be alone.

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

I hope, as he assures me, he was not guilty of Indecency; but have Reason to bless God, who, by disabling me in my Faculties, enabled me to preserve my Innocence; and when all my Strength would have signified nothing, magnified himself in my Weakness.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Believe God's word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your Rock is Christ, and it is not the Rock which ebbs and flows, but your sea.

Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always look about for the wine.

Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.

Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always looks around for the wine.