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Friedrich Nietzsche

First principle: one must need strength, otherwise one will never have it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What does not kill me makes me stronger.

Earl Nightingale

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Leo Rosten

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Plato

Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

W. T. Ussery

Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength.

Black Elk

Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.

Persian Proverb

Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.

Friedrich Nietzsche

First principle: one must need strength, otherwise one will never have it.

La Rochefoucauld

If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength.

Phil Jackson

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Billy

On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength.

French Proverb

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Hal Borland

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

Jean de La Fontaine

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

John Beecher

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.

SHAKS.: _M. for M.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

American Indian Proverb

The greatest strength is gentleness.

Richard Rosen

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

Basil S. Walsh

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Black Elk

Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential.

Ralph W. Sockman

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

Madame Swetchine

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

Paul De Rapin

Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it.

American Indian Proverb

The weakness of the enemy makes our strength.

Thomas Jefferson

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it.

John P. Loughrane

It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers.

Eric Hoffer

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Samuel Johnson

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Aeschylus

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Victor Hugo

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

Charles Lamb

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Henry Ward Beecher

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

George Sand

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Saint Francis de Sales

Nothing is so powerful as gentleness nothing is so gentle as true strength.

Sir Winston Churchill

Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential.

Booker T. Washington

There are two ways of exerting one's strength one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.

SCOTT: _Marmion, Introduction to Canto i._

Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.

Jean Paul Richter

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it a charm.

The Hitopadesa

On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself.

Kahlil Gibran

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Sigmund Freud

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.

Amy Grant

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Vince Lombardi

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Marjorie Holmes

A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

Sun-tzu

Invincibility lies in the defense the possibility of victory in the attack. One defends when his strength is inadequate he attacks when it is abundant.

Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm.

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.

Strength is the outcome of need.

Union gives strength.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Valour needs first strength, then a weapon.

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

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

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

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

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.

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

Hardness shatters; strength endures.

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

True strength lies in gentleness.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

Twice the strength of those other leading national brands.

Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

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

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.

There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.

War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength

Holidays are an expensive trial of strength. The only satisfaction comes from survival.

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.

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

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.

Has not Nature proved, in giving us the strength necessary to submit them to our desires, that we have the right to do so?

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow - it empties today of strength.

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.

Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.

Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

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.