Strength Quotes

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would have thus been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.
     - Charles Darwin -

It is truly said: It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.
     - Chow Ching -

It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.
     - Confucius -

If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.
     - Corrie TenBoom -

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
     - Dag Hammarskjold -

Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.
     - Daisaku Ikeda -

There is [a] spiritual strength derived from the subjecting of the physical appetite to the will of the individual. "He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than king." If there were no other virtues in fasting but gaining strength of character, that alone would be sufficient justification for its universal acceptance.
     - David McKay -

Storms make trees take deeper roots.
     - Dolly Parton -

For strength to bear is found in duty alone, and he is blest indeed who learns to make the joy of others cure his own heartache.
     - Drake -  

Strength is the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of those pieces.
     - Judith Viorst -

The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.
     - Kahlil Gibran -

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
     - Lao Tzu -

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
     - Lao Tzu –

There is nothing so strong as gentleness, and nothing so gentle as strength.
     - Leo Muir -

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
     – Leon J. Suenes -

He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices.
     - Lord Byron -

Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
     - Lord Chesterfield -

My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
     - Lord Tennyson -

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
     - Mahatma Gandhi -

Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.
     - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus -

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
     - Marilyn vos Savant -

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose–a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
     – Mary Shelley -

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
     - Maya Angelou -

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
     - Maya Angelou -

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
     - Michael Jordan -

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
     - Mother Teresa -

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
     - Oscar Wilde –

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
     - Oscar Wilde -

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
     - Paul Brunton -

When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
     - Ronald Reagan -     

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