quotations about strength
From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle of life to pay due attention to the strength of the body. They may take daily what they consider a sufficient amount of exercise; but the exercise is not calculated to keep the various limbs and muscles, still less the internal organs, in proper working order. Amid the ordinary concerns of life the man may appear strong, even stalwart. But when occasion arises for some special muscular exercise, or taxing the action of some organ, he finds out his weakness.
RICHARD ANTHONY PROCTOR
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Strength: How to Get Strong and Keep Strong
The greatest strength expires with loss of breath;
The mightiest in one minute stoop to death.
THOMAS DEKKER
Old Fortunatus
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The American Bible
Strength avails not a coward.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Lay down your weary tune, lay down
Lay down the song you strum
And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings
No voice can hope to hum
BOB DYLAN
"Lay Down Your Weary Tune"
The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.
OVID
Tristia
Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.
STEVE MARABOLI
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
I didn't know my own strength
And I crashed down, and I tumbled
But I did not crumble
WHITNEY HOUSTON
"I Didn't Know My Own Strength"
As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
State of the Union Address, February 2, 1953
To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Genealogy of Morals
It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.
JON KRAKAUER
Into the Wild
Never be afraid to expose a weakness in yourself. Exposing a weakness is the beginning of strength.
ROBERT ANTHONY
Beyond Positive Thinking
The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
"Strength" is the new "skinny", and strength training can compliment anyone in any sport they choose.
ROXANNE HOOPER
"50-year-old Langley lifter proves anything can happen", Langley Advance, July 11, 2017
The strongest may have need of more strength.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.
HOWARD THURMAN
The Luminous Darkness: A Personal Interpretation of the Anatomy of Segregation and the Ground of Hope
Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Strength is the boy or girl down the hall from me in the hospital who is laughing and coloring just a few days after open-heart surgery.
BRITTANY FOSTER
"It's Time to Redefine What Strength Really Means", Pulmonary Hypertension News, June 20, 2017
I am strong to-day, because I have been long with one who is stronger
ELSA BARKER
Letters from a Living Dead Man