4,431 Quotes About Strength

A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.

Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.

He who is whipped oftenest, is whipped easiest.

Grant us the wil1 to fashion as we feel, Grant us the strength to labor as we know, Grant us the purpose, ribbed and edged with steel, To strike the blow.