Quotes
Quotes about Strength
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Grudge no expenseâyield to no oppositionâforget fatigueâtill, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome . . .
The wealth of rich feelings--the deep--the pure; With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure.
Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive; His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow, That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw: Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand, That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand, Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut. And if at first he fail, his second summersaut He instantly assays and from his nimble ring, Still yarking never leaves, until himself he fling Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.
If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in.
Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. â¢Charlotte Bronte A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. â¢Bernard Meltzer True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. â¢George Washington Friends are born, not made. â¢Henry Adams Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. â¢Anonymous Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. â¢Aristotle A friend loveth at all times. â¢Bible, Proverbs 17:17 Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship-never. â¢Charles Caleb Colton A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. â¢Ralph Waldo Emerson It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them â¢Ralph Waldo Emerson The only way to have a friend is to be one. â¢Ralph Waldo Emerson Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. â¢Euripides It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. â¢F Scott Fitzgerald We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us. â¢François Duc de La Rochefoucauld God gives us our relatives- thank God we can choose our friends. â¢Ethel Watts Mumford Love demands infinitely less than friendship. â¢George Jean Nathan Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it-- to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help. â¢Friedrich Nietzsche Hold a true friend with both your hands. â¢Nigerian Proverb Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love. â¢William Shakespeare The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. â¢Logan Pearsall Smith A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. â¢Henry David Thoreau Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. â¢Bible, John 15:13 The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. â¢Mark Twain Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. â¢Voltaire Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. â¢Oscar Wilde Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. â¢Virginia Woolf Chide a friend in private and praise him in public. â¢Solon Depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously towards himself will act so towards others, and vice versa. â¢Lavater Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, What! You, too? I thought I was the only one. â¢C. S. Lewis If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends let others excel you. â¢Colton Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest to his feet. â¢John Seldon There's not so much danger in a known foe than in a suspected friend. â¢Nabb To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses. â¢Syrus True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. â¢Charles Caleb Colton We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. â¢Evelyn Waugh Who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God. â¢Lavater Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. â¢Samuel Butler A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. â¢Ralph Waldo Emerson, If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. â¢Blaise Pascal I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. â¢Plutarch There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between counsel of a friend and a flatterer. â¢Francis Bacon Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. â¢George Macdonald A friend is, as it were, a second self. â¢Cicero Friendship is Love without his wings! â¢Byron To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship. â¢Cicero Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. â¢Shakespeare That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. â¢Quarles He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. â¢Joubert Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. â¢Richter Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. â¢Nathaniel Hawthorne The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. â¢Buddha Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. â¢Seneca The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority. â¢The Hitopadesa Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. â¢La Fontaine The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. â¢Moliere One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. â¢Henry Brook Adams A friend in need is a friend to be avoided. â¢Lord Samuel While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both of his. â¢Anonymous Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral. â¢Kehlog Albran The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. â¢Henry David Thoreau There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros. â¢Buddha The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend. â¢Abraham Lincoln If a man does not make new acquaintances, as he advances through life, he soon will find himself alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair. â¢Samuel Johnson You should never second-guess the motives of your true friends. You don't even have to analyze their actions because you know, at bottom, that whatever they do or say or think flows in some fundamental way from the fact that they love you. â¢Star Jones True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. â¢Theophrastus True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. â¢George Washington But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. â¢Thomas Jefferson True friendship brings sunshine to the shade, and shade to the sunshine
I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.
I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Report, that which no evil thing of any kind is more swift, increases with travel and gains strength by its progress. [Lat., Fama, malum quo non aliud velocius ullum, Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo.]
Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at first and in fear, she soon rises to heaven, Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds.
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. [Lat., Strangulat inclusus dolor, atque exaestuat intus, Cogitur et vires multiplicare suas.]
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied. -Herophilus.
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart. -Walter Savage Landor.
The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.
Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.
