Quotes about Strength
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
- John Donne
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
- Joseph Addison
What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?
- Joseph Addison
That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.
- Khalil Gibran
In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.
- Marcus Aurelius
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
- Phillips Brooks
God's own foolishness is stronger than men. Do we believe that?
- RC Sproul Jr.
Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.
- Theodore Roosevelt
For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!
- Tom Lehrer
And man will go on. Man, not men.
- Ayn Rand
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
- Thomas a Kempis