Quotes about Strength

Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.

Circumstances do not make you what you are, they reveal what you are.

The strength and clarity of your vision will lift you out of the depth of any hardship.

The size of a person is more important than the size of the problem.

Nourish it with good works, give it peace in solitude, get it strength in prayer, make it wise with reading, enlighten it by meditation, make it tender with love, sweeten it with humility, humble it with penance, enliven it with psalms and hymns, and comfort it with frequent reflections upon future glory.

Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.

Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.

If you're going through hell, keep going.