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What does not destroy me, makes me strong. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche The least strength suffices to break what is bruised. [Lat., Minimae vires frangere quassa valent.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Tristia (bk. III, 11, 22) Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. - Clementine Paddleford The stronger always succeeds. [Lat., Plus potest qui plus valet.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Truculentus (IV, 3, 30) I feel like a Bull Moose. - Theodore Roosevelt, on landing from Cuba with his Rough Riders after the Spanish-American War I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. - Theodore Roosevelt, in a speech in Chicago, April 10, 1899 When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. - Arnold Schwarzenegger Profaned the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line. - Sir Walter Scott Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line. - Sir Walter Scott, Marmion--Introduction (canto I) The king's name is a tower of strength, Which they upon the adverse party want. - William Shakespeare In that day's feats, When he might act the woman in the scene, He prov'd best man i' th' field, and for his meed Was brow-bound with the oak. - William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (Cominius at II, ii) O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (Isabella at II, ii) Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal. - Li Shimim In a just cause the weak will beat the strong. - Sophocles Strength alone knows conflict; weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished. - Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff) We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. A straw or a feather sustains itself long in the air. - Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff) Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. - Jonathan Swift So let it be in God's own might We gird us for the coming fight, And, strong in Him whose cause is ours In conflict with unholy powers, We grasp the weapons he has given,-- The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven. - John Greenleaf Whittier, Thor Moral Warfare The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic. - Robert Aris Willmott Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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