Strength quotes
Beecher John
Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
The Bible (Authorized Version)
Old Testament: Ecclesiasticus ch.3 v.22
Seek not out the things that are too hard for thee, neither search
the things that are above thy strength.
Blackstone Sir William 1723-1780
Commentaries on the Laws of England
The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament;
its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.
The Book of Common Prayer
Psalm 71 v.8
Cast me not away in the time of age:forsake me not when my strength failleth me.
Hammarskjöld Dag 1905-1961
Life only demands from the strength you possess. Only one feat is
possible - not to have run away.
Hoffer Eric 1902-1983
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
Man is not weak - knowledge is more than equivalent to
force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
La Fontaine Jean de 1621-1695
Fables ‘Le Lion et le Rat'
Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
La Rochefoucauld François Duc de 1613-1680
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than to our strength.
Lamb Charles 1775-1834
Essays of Elia ‘Witches, and Other...'
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
Ley Robert 1890-1945
(German Labour Front slogan from 1933)
Kraft durch Freude.
Strength through joy.
Lowell James Russell 1819-1891
Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise,
That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
McLaughlin Mignon
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.
Marvell Andrew 1621-1678
‘To His Coy Mistress'
Let us roll all our strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one ball:
And tear our pleasures with rough strife,
Thorough the iron gates of life.
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
Monsell John Samuel Bewley 1811-1875
„Fight the good fight with all thy might"
Fight the good fight with all thy might,
Christ is thy strength and Christ thy right;
Lay hold on life, and it shall be
Thy joy and crown eternally.
Nietzsche Friedrich 1844-1900
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
Ovid 43 BC-AD c.17
Epistulae Ex Ponto
Though the strength is lacking, yet the willingness is commendable.
Pasteur Louis 1822-1895
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my
goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Propertius c.50-16 BC
Elegies
Even if strength fail, boldness at least will deserve praise: in
great endeavours even to have had the will is though.
Swinburne Algernon Charles 1837-1909
„Atalanta in Calydon"
Strength without hands to smite,
Love that endures for a breath;
Night, the shadow of light,
And Life, the shadow of death.
The Talmud
The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
‘Sir Galahad'
My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure.
Wiener Norbert 1894-1964
The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength,
but one belonging to acquiescence and thence to weakness.
Wilson Woodrow 1856-1924
The man is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Wordsworth William 1770-1850
„Ode. Intimations of Immortality"
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind ...
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.
