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“If fate is a millstone, we are the grist. There is nothing we can do. So I wish for strength. If I cannot protect them from the wheel, then give me a strong blade, and enough strength, to shatter fate”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

“And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.”

James Clavell book King Rat

Source: King Rat

“What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“When you're ready to make the change and you don't feel that you have the strength, know that you are connected with the same strength that moves the world; you just have to stop turning your back on it and connect with it.”

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 83

“If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.”

Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) Indian writer and guru

Songs of the Soul (1971)

“The wealth of our country and our institutional system lies particularly in the fact that our diversity is strength. Whenever we find a balance between unity and diversity, the strength of Belgium is precisely to give meaning to our diversity.”

Philippe of Belgium (1960) seventh king of the Belgians

Divided Belgium has a new King Philippe http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/10193295/Divided-Belgium-has-a-new-King-Philippe.html, Telegraph (July 21, 2013)

“Let the church come to God in the strength of a perfect weakness, in the power of a felt helplessness and a child-like confidence, and then, either she has no strength, and has no right to be, or she has a strength that is infinite. Then and thus, will she stretch out the rod over the seas of difficulty that lie before her, and the waters shall divide, and she shall pass through, and sing the song of deliverance.”

Mark Hopkins (educator) (1802–1887) American educationalist and theologian

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 146.

“Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

“From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.”

Jorge Luis Borges book Ficciones

Source: Ficciones

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

“Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.”

Juliet Marillier book Son of the Shadows

Source: Son of the Shadows

“I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.”

Robin Hobb book Ship of Magic

Source: Ship of Magic

“Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.”

Gregory Peck (1916–2003) American actor

“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Variant: No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come

“My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.”

Dorothy Day (1897–1980) Social activist

“You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.”

Wallace Stegner book Angle of Repose

Source: Angle of Repose