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Quotes About Strength

Though one were strong as seven, He too with death shall dwell, Nor wake with wings in heaven, Nor weep for pains in hell;
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
In a land of sand and ruin and gold There shone one woman, and none but she
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time, with a gift of tears; Grief, with a glass that ran; Pleasure, with pain for leaven; Summer, with flowers that fell; Remembrance, fallen from heaven, And madness risen from hell; Strength without hands to smite; Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
A Divine rule can be established only by a man, who, where justice and equity are required, neither feels deficient nor weak and who is not greedy and avaricious.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
Overlook and forgive the weaknesses of the generous people because if they fall down, God will help them.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
A man's measure is his will.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
If poverty was a man, I would have slain him.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
Walk with your sickness,it wont walk you.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
be ready to be above and beyond the foul even when we're up to our eyes in it.
~ Ali Smith
The slightness of it gestures against the odds. It is like a magic spell.
~ Ali Smith
She is not a girl. She is a block of stone. She is a piece of wall. She is something against which other things impact without her permission or understanding.
~ Ali Smith
Real strength was a matter of sensing something alive in you bigger than just your own breathing.
~ Ali Smith
no one can be strong all the time, no matter how broad their shoulders!
~ Ali Vali
those who want to beat you down can't succeed unless you give them help!
~ Ali Vali
Steel Watch
~ Alice
And how do you get on?" she added, lowering her voice. "How about the Ogre?" "He has not ground me into bread-flour yet," responded Ruth, smiling.
~ Alice B. Emerson
I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.
~ Alice Barrett
He is tremendously strong, she thought, and liked the idea, even as she had feared that strength when she first met him
~ Alice Borchardt
So fair a victor, how can I help but be conquered.
~ Alice Borchardt
But if we grow stronger...and rise higher than what's pullin' us down...Yes, rise higher than dirt...that fifty pound weight will lift and you'll be free, free without anybody's by-your-leave. Do something to wash out the sin.
~ Alice Childress
To be afraid and to be brave is the best kind of courage of all.
~ Alice Dalgliesh
Hearts don't break...They only crack into a thousand little pieces. If they broke it would be better—because then they wouldn't exist.
~ Alice Dalgliesh
To be afraid and to be brave is the best courage of all.
~ Alice Dalgliesh