quotations about strength
Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
HAVELOCK ELLIS
attributed, Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
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"
My strength is made perfect in weakness.
BIBLE
2 Corinthians 12:9
I am strong to-day, because I have been long with one who is stronger
ELSA BARKER
Letters from a Living Dead Man
The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Samson, like many other heroes, showed his strength among men, and his weakness among women.
JAMES LINEN
attributed, Day's Collacon
It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.
JON KRAKAUER
Into the Wild
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
ALBERT CAMUS
Return to Tipasa
Like the strength of a flower, pushing up through the earth
Like the strength of the rain, soaking into the ground
Like the strength of a fish, swimming against the flow
Like the strength of the sun, melting the winter snow
Like the strength of a bird, flying into the wind
Like the strength of the wind, lifting the desert sand
Like the strength of the tide, shaping the rocks and land
Like the strength of the ice, carving the mountainside
How wonderful this world
A fragment of a fiery sun
How wonderful this life
How fragile and how bold
IONA
"Strength"
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
Though cares and sorrows e'er must come,
Though heart be rent,
I know that God will give me strength,
When mine is spent.
ARDELIA COTTON BARTON
"The Peace That Passeth Understanding"
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
RICHARD E. BYRD
Alone
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success; and when we have well surveyed the powers of our own minds, and made some estimate what we may expect from them, we shall not be inclined either to sit still, and not set our thoughts on work at all, in despair of knowing anything; nor on the other side, question everything, and declaim all knowledge, because some things are not to be understood.
JOHN LOCKE
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding