Quotes about Strength

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

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Like the fighter, the Warrior of Light is aware of his or her immense strength, and will never fight with anyone who does not deserve the honor of combat.

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

My strength is my enthusiasm.

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength,

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

I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.