Quotes About Strength

He had learned long ago that dying was not hard. The harder course was to defy the odds, to endure life's torments stoically.

Do not contend with God who is stronger than you are, who is able when he will (and he will one day be found both able and willing enough) to turn the wicked into hell, the element of sin and sinners, who shall go into it as into their own place, as Judas did

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer

We are parlor soldiers. The rugged battle of fate, where strength is born, we shun.

The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.

Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

A good intention clothes itself with power.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

There is always safety in valor

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force.

There are some men above grief and some men below it.

Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.

Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

Character is what can do without success.