Quotes
Quotes about Strength
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.
The royal navy of England has ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. â¢Edmund Burke Which fiddle-strings is weakness to expredge my nerves this night!
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
March: Its motto, "Courage and strength in times of danger."
Gain from your opponents without sacrificing your own strength.
The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.
Gain from your opponents without sacrificing your own strength.
From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow, So warm with light his blended colors glow. . . . . The glowing portraits, fresh from life, that bring Home to our hearts the truth from which they spring.
If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength.
May I govern my passions with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away.
With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne, And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn.
By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never. [Fr., Patience et longueur de temps. Font plus que force ni que rage.]
Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling. [Lat., Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed saepe cadendo.]
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
