Quotes About Strength

And Allah took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it, and created the horse.... Thou shall fly without wings, and conquer without any sword. Oh, horse.

God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

Make men large and strong, and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

There is no servant like God. No other being so humbles himself, and so bows down under weakness, and so lifts up with his strength, as God in the plenary service of Love.

Our virtues are like crystals hidden in rocks. No man shall find them by any soft ways, but by the hammer and by fire.

Fear secretes acids.

Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

The Divine Being brings comfort and consolation to men. He is a God for men that are weak, and want to be strong; for men that are impure, and want to be pure; for men that are unjust, and want to be just; for men that are unloving, and want to be loving; for men that aspire to all the greatness and glory of which the soul is capable.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but it is well for us, now and then, to talk with death as friend talketh with friend, and to bathe in the strange seas, and to anticipate the experiences of that land to which it will lead us. These forethinkings are meant, not to make us discontented with life, but to bring us back with more strength, and a nobler purpose in living.

There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with him.

Do not weep, do not weep, my little wife: song of hope and encouragement in marriage.

That sense of power was all she craved.

A life to live is not a field to cross; yet, somehow, in her chaotic way, Varya was able to keep the house going.

In the concrete jungle it's sink or swim: you can't be timid or tentative; you have to forge through, make your mark, enter the fray.

Post tot naufragia portus, which translates as "After so many shipwrecks, a haven.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over." -