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Quotes About Strength

Be comfortable being uncomfortable
~ The Blonde Jon
Fear is just an illusion.
~ The Blonde Jon
As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, so wise men falter not amidst blame or praise.
~ The Dhammapada
One's own self conquered is better than all other people.
~ The Dhammapada
Fielding's research group suggests that rapid weight lifting as opposed to the slow mode of traditional lifting may help maintain fast-twitch muscle power with age.
~ The Editors of Men's Health
Prosperity attends the lion-hearted man who exerts himself, while we say, destiny will ensure it. Laying aside destiny, show manly fortitude by thy own strength: if thou endeavour, and thy endeavours fail of success, what crime is there in failing?
~ The Hitopadesa
Horse, you are truly a creature without equal, for you fly without wings and conquer without sword.
~ The Koran
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
~ The Laws of Manu
Faith is the strength that keeps you moving forward for better day
~ the omani shed
The beauty of woman is not only in her physical attraction. Her true beauty lie in her ability to conquer the world with her strength and to soften the heart of a serpent with her wisdom. - Okiki Michael
~ The Post
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
~ The Rolling Stones
Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
~ The Talmud
Never put thyself in the way of temptation: even David could not resist it.
~ The Talmud
Let no lost love break you. If you really did beyond your best, that's one thing to make you proud of your innumerable abundance
~ The wise Pharoah Moe
The more dirty, hideous people you meet, the more your thrashing gains. My thrashing is my pride in such days"..
~ The wise Pharoah Moe
Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's the choice that something else is greater than that fear.
~ Theadore Roosevelt
When someone is going through a storm, your silent presence is more powerful than a million empty words.
~ Thema Davis
The wooden wall is your ships.
~ Themistocles
Although princes need not necessarily be intelligent, it is essential that they have some sort of public presence. The Duke of York had none. Fine-boned and slightly built, he looked frail, seemed lacking in physical stamina. His air was tense, hesitant, ill-at-ease. An observer had only to notice the incessant working of his jaw muscles to appreciate that he was under severe strain.
~ Theo Aronson
We are one people—our enemies have made us one whether we will or not, as has repeatedly happened in history. Affliction binds us together, and thus united, we suddenly discover our strength. Yes, we are strong enough to form a State, and, indeed, a model State.
~ Theodor Herzl
In the mighty vortex of the world's history, which inexorably crushes all peoples that are not as hard and as flexible as steel, such a nation could not permanently maintain itself.
~ Theodor Mommsen
The impartiality of scientific language deprived what was powerless of the strength to make itself heard and merely provided the existing order with a neutral sign for itself. Such neutrality is more metaphysical than metaphysics.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
Die fast unlösbare Aufgabe besteht darin, weder von der Macht der anderen, noch von der eigenen Ohnmacht sich dumm machen zu lassen.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
If love in society is to represent a better one, it cannot do so as a peaceful enclave, but only by conscious opposition. This, however, demands precisely the element of voluntariness that the bourgeois, for whom love can never be natural enough, forbid it. Loving means not letting immediacy wither under the omnipresent weight of mediation and economics, and in such fidelity it becomes itself mediated, as a stubborn counter-pressure. He alone loves who has the strength to hold fast to love.
~ Theodor W. Adorno