Quotes About Strength

Because happiness alone is good for the body; whereas sorrow develops the strength of the mind.

Happiness is good for the body, but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind.

You're as strong as the Pont Neuf. You'll live to bury us all!

until it had acquired the strength to create in my mind a fresh example of absolute, unproductive beauty...

I have friends wherever there are clusters of trees, stricken but not defeated, which have come together with touching perseverance to offer a common supplication to an inclement sky which has no mercy upon them.

Fortunately, life, which was more powerful than their mockery and whose sweet and strengthening milk he had not fully drained, held out its breast to dissuade him. And he resumed drinking with a joyous voracity, his rich and credulous imagination listening naïvely to the grievances of that ravenousness and making wonderful amends for its blighted hopes.

His strength was restored and, with it, all his desires to live; he went out, began living again, and died a second time for himself.

The sea refreshes our imagination because it does not make us think of human life; yet it rejoices the soul, because, like the soul, it is an infinite and impotent striving, a strength that is ceaselessly broken by falls, an eternal and exquisite lament.

She cursed her will, which could rear so impetuously and leap over hurdles so dauntlessly when her desires strove toward impossible goals—her will, so weak, so pliant, so broken not only when she was forced to disobey her desires, but also when she was driven by some other emotion.

A esperança de ser aliviado lhe dá ânimo para sofrer.

What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

Though all winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple, who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

And what is faith, love, virtue unassay'd alone, without exterior help sustained?

Consult.../what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair.

Arm'd with Hell flames and fury all at once

This is Old Age; but then, thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty; which will change 540 To withered, weak, and gray; thy senses then, Obtuse, all taste of pleasure must forego, To what thou hast; and, for the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry 545 To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life.

so much the fear, Of Thunder and the Sword of Michael, Wrought still within them:

47: Equal in strength, and rather then be less 48: Car'd not to be at all; with that care lost 49: Went all his fear:

Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam;

His weakness shall o'ercome Satanic strength,   And all the world, and mass of sinful flesh;   That all the Angels and aethereal Powers—   They now, and men hereafter—may discern   From what consummate virtue I have chose   This perfet man, by merit called my Son,   To earn salvation for the sons of men.     So spake the Eternal Father, and all Heaven   Admiring stood a space;

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

For who knows not that Truth is strong..; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licencings to make her victorious.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.

I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.