Quotes About Strength

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

There is no education like adversity.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Without justice, courage is weak.

An empty bag cannot stand upright.

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

Tis hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

I drank only water; the other workmen, near fifty in number, were great guzzlers of beer. On occasion, I carried up and down stairs a large form of types in each hand, when others carried but one in both hands. They wondered to see, from this and several instances, that the Water-American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer!

If you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.

If it were said that he who cannot deny himself anything he inclines to, though he knows it will be to his hurt, has not the virtue of resolution or fortitude, it would be intelligible enough; but, as it stands, it seems obscure or erroneous.

O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.

Make yourself sheep, and the wolves will eat you.

123. To confess a Fault, that is none, out of Fear, is indeed mean: But not to be afraid of standing in one, is Brutish.

through the goodness of the Lord, truth, I believed, gained some ground, and it was a strengthening opportunity to the honest-hearted.

He was naturally more eloquent, had a ready plenty of words, and sometimes, as I thought, bore me down more by his fluency than by the strength of his reasons. As