Quotes About Strength

A woman is like a tea bag: you never know her strength until you drop her in hot water.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

He who can lick can bite.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

America once had the clarity of a pioneer axe.

As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.

We must act in spite of fear ... not because of it.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another.

An arch never sleeps.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.

Either you reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.

One of man's finest qualities is described by the simple word "guts"-the ability to take it. If you have the discipline to stand fast when your body wants to run, if you can control your temper and remain cheerful in the face of monotony or disappointments, you have "guts" in the soldiering sense.

Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

Give us men to match our mountains, Give us men to match our plains: Men with empires in their purpose And new eras in their brains.

You are a big country now, but you still tend to feel small and fragile. If the United States gets a cold, you get pneumonia.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.