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Quotes About Strength

The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.
~ William Bligh
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
~ William Boetcker
awesome power of Thermo!
~ William Boniface
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
~ William Booth
Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.
~ William Boyd
Maybe it's that women can get along without men a damn sight better than men can get along without women. And the fact that they know it. That alone gives them a big edge. In endurance, in whatever you want to call it. They know they'll win out in the end.
~ William Brinkley
It is the difference between hitting with a pillow and hitting with a baseball bat.
~ William Brohaugh
Send love to your fears
~ William Buhlman
John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thoughtAll that we did, all that we said or sangMust come from contact with the soil, from thatContact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.
~ William Butler Yeats
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
~ William Butler Yeats
They must go out of the theatre with the strength they live by strengthened from looking upon some passion that could, whatever its chosen way of life, strike down an enemy, fill a long stocking with money or move a girl's heart.
~ William Butler Yeats
William C. Davis
~ Cerro Gordo
Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.
~ William Carleton
Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.
~ William Carlos Williams
You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.
~ William Cavendish
you have enemies? Good. That means you've stuck up for yourself sometime in your life.
~ William Churchill
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one...
~ William Cowper
Satan trembles, when he sees the weakest Saint upon his knees.
~ William Cowper
When we don't pray, we quit the fight. Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright. And Satan trembles when he sees. The weakest saint upon his knees.
~ William Cowper
If the world like it not, so much the worse for them.
~ William Cowper
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.
~ William Cullen Bryant
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.
~ William Cullen Bryant
And it would be nice if the roof was a bit stronger. Then the peacocks wouldn't keep falling through. I don't mind during the day, but I hate waking up at night to find a peacock in bed with me.
~ William Dalrymple
Empire that was so magnificently strong, so confident in its own strength and brilliance and
~ William Dalrymple