Quotes About Strength

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point when we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.

Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong How hard the battle goes, the day how long Faint not-fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.

To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.

The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast. And the woods against a stormy sky, Their giant branches toss'd.

This struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

I like the man who faces what he must, With steps triumphant and a heart of cheer; Who fights the daily battle without fear.

Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured.

At any rate, you can bear it for a quarter of an hour!

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it it opinion that uses the force.

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.

Riding hard for glory.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than to our strength.

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.

Weak people cannot be sincere.

Give me that man That is not passion's slave.

The two kinds of people on earth that I mean Are the people who lift and the people who lean.

There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Never retract, never explain, never apologize - get the thing done and let them howl.

God will help you if you try, and you can if you think you can.

Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.