Quotes About Strength

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

The First wealth is health.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

Character is that which can do without success.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness nothing so gentle as real strength

Believe in yourself our strength grows out of our weakness

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

Work and learn in evil days, in insulted days, in days of debt and depression and calamity. Fight best in the shade of the cloud of arrows.

I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!

The law of nature is: Do the thing, and you shall have the power, but they who do not the thing have not the power.

He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of Pain.

He who knows that power is inborn, that he is weak because he has looked for good out of him and elsewhere, and so perceiving, throws himself unhesitatingly on his thought, instantly rights himself, stands in the erect position, commands his limbs, works miracles; just as a man who stands on his feet is stronger than a man who stands on his head.