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Quotes About Strength

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.
~ John Bradshaw
It is as though nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.
~ Aaron Hill
I just love to fight. I like to hurt people. I haven't lost that. I didn't lose it when I first got a bit of wealth and I haven't lost it now. The nature of my business is to hurt people.
~ Mike Tyson
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.
~ Joseph Addison
Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back. The blood boils just like you put it in a pot.
~ Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Denying our weaknesses is neither power, nor protection. We cannot overcome those disabling parts of our own nature which in fact steal our power away, if we do not acknowledge they exist.
~ Sonia Choquette
Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
~ Florence King
A Warrior of Light needs love. Love and affection are part of his nature. He makes use of solitude, but is not used by it.
~ Paulo Coelho
Nature did not make me willowy.
~ Dixie Lee Ray
Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.
~ Walter M. Miller, Jr.
its not in my nature to go down without a fight even when things seem insurmountable
~ Suzanne Collins
The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow and flourish as before.
~ James Dwight Dana
Nature has a funny way of breaking what does not bend.
~ Jewel
How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns.
~ Tammy Bruce
The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a Whig by nature.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.
~ Tom Peters
When people are determined, they can overcome fate; when the will is unified, it can mobilize energy. Enlightened people do not even let nature put them in a set mold.
~ Zicheng Hong
Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.
~ Malcolm X