Quotes About Strength

If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

What cannot be avoided, t'were childish weakness to lament or fear.

I have learned to live with it all... whatever happens ... all of it.

There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.

There are some great roles - mostly in Shakespeare's tragedies which no one can play at full strength from beginning to end. One simply hopes that one can hit the peaks as often as one has the strength.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

With us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles.

Cast thy burden on the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.

When Eve upon the first of men The apple pressed with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant.

Too much happens ... Man performs, engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

A great man does not lose his self-possession when he is afflicted; the ocean is not made muddy by the falling in of its banks.

Do not show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

From a fallen tree, all make kindling.

Thou hast shown thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Treasure the memories of past misfortunes; they constitute our bank of fortitude.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man; it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.

Difficulties, opposition, criticism - these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it.