Strength Quotes - Page 33

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.

Strength is not measured in muscle, but in will.

Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.

The difference between towering and cowering is totally a matter of inner posture.

Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

Art that has depth makes a strong impact on the spirit, emotion, mood and thoughts of a human being.

Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.

Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

When you're a self-made man you start very early in life. In my case it was at nine years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited .

So-Youn has good qualities in both jump and power, triple combination is her biggest strength and she also has great artistic value in her skating.

How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!

The aggregate energy of all the great masters of the past and those of the present communicates the greatest possibilities of art. It is from this position that the artist attains colossal strength.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are legions in a single multiform cause, and they will gain strength by knowing it, taking encouragement from it, and when appropriate and opportune, pooling their efforts.

Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery, and you shall live a life uncommon.

Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.

If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal" and "criminal," for, in the strength to set standards, resides the strength to maintain control.

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

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.