Strength Quotes

what doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

... where does strength come from? It is not muscle strength any more. It is not also mere intellectual strength. What is strength? Strength is the support of the people.

Truth, purity, and unselfishness wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition.

but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

The brittle is easy to shatter.

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. . . . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.

You are as strong as you think you are, you can achieve things you think you can achieve, its all in your head

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.

The gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world. That which has no substance enters where there is no space. This shows the value of non-action. Teaching without words, performing without actions: that is the Master's way.

That which does not destroy, strengthens.

He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell.

It's not our weaknesses that frighten us. It's our strengths.

Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected.

It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.

If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer.

In their daily life, all are braver than they know.

Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.

We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

Holding on to the weak is called strength.

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.

The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

being fearless doesn't mean you have no fears. it means you're strong enough to face them

We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.

The hard and stiff will be broken.The soft and supple will prevail.

I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve - in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat

Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.

I am not hard - I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded

If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist, in economic, political, scientific, and all the other kinds of struggles, as well as the military, then the peril to freedom will continue to rise.

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger; and improving our strength in this manner step by step, we may reach a state in which it shall be our privilege to do the most coveted and honored duties in life and in society.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.

Truly I have looked in the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.

A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

. . . And always remember that you are Americans, and it is your birthright to dream great dreams in this sweet and blessed land, truly the greatest, freest, strongest nation on Earth.

Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.