Strength Quotes

Be strong and courageous, and do the work.

Chronicles 28:20

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson 1709

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu 604BC

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. You can't stop the plane, you can't stop the storm, you can't stop time. So one might as well accept it calmly, wisely.

Golda Meir 1898

All our talents increase in the using, and the every faculty, both good and bad, strengthen by exercise.

Anne Bronte 1820

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo 1802

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Ben Jonson 1573

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

Bill Moyers

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur 1822

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Henry Miller

Patience is a particular requirement. Without it you can destroy in an hour what it might take you weeks to repair.

Charlie W. Shedd

The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway 1899