“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
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“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
“God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.”
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist
As quoted in Nature Vol. 149 (Jan-Jun) 1942 p. 291, and A Philosophy for Our Time (1954) by Bernard Mannes Baruch, p. 13
1890s
“The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.”
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
“Yet the powers that be haven't quite considered the strength of our sheer numbers.”
Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian
From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, ACTIVISM
“It is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.”
Hippocrates (-460–-370 BC) ancient Greek physician
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“He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.”
Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) English Puritan
Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 531.
“No ally or adversary should ever doubt our strength and our resolve.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2016, Convention (August 2016)
“France showed as a nation less strength than Churchill showed as a man.”
Mark Riebling (1963) American writer
Churchill’s Finest Hour (2009)
“Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.”
Samuel Johnson book The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 13; variant with modernized spelling: Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
“We should hide our strength rather than put it on display.”
Feng Shih-kuan (1945) Taiwanese politician
Feng Shih-kuan (2016) cited in " Taiwan deploys jet fighters to monitor China's aircraft carrier http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201612270011.aspx" on Focus Taiwan, 27 December 2016
“I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE THANKS TO GOD ALMIGHTY FOR THE STRENGTH TO CREATE.”
Eamon (singer) (1984) American singer
Quotes from liner notes, Love & Pain
“Strength and beauty are the blessings of youth; temperance, however, is the flower of old age.”
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Fragment quoted in H. Diels and W. Kranz (eds.) Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, Vol. II (1952), no. 294; reference taken from Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations (2005), p. 261
“If there is a faith which can move mountains, then it is a faith in one’s own strength.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
Wenn es einen Glauben gibt, der Berge versetzen kann, so ist es der Glaube an die eigene Kraft.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 22.
“Great is our God, and great is His power, and his strength is immeasurable”
Carl Linnaeus book Systema Naturae
In the dedication from his 12th edition.
Original in Latin: "Magnus est DEUS noster, & magna est potentia Ejus, & potentia Ejus non est numerus."
Systema Naturae
“For his voice could search the heart, and that was his gift and his strength.”
Stephen Vincent Benét book The Devil and Daniel Webster
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937)
Context: Then he turned to Jabez Stone and showed him as he was — an ordinary man who'd had hard luck and wanted to change it. And, because he'd wanted to change it, now he was going to be punished for all eternity. And yet there was good in Jabez Stone, and he showed that good. He was hard and mean, in some ways, but he was a man. There was sadness in being a man, but it was a proud thing too. And he showed what the pride of it was till you couldn't help feeling it. Yes, even in hell, if a man was a man, you'd know it. And he wasn't pleading for any one person any more, though his voice rang like an organ. He was telling the story and the failures and the endless journey of mankind. They got tricked and trapped and bamboozled, but it was a great journey. And no demon that was ever foaled could know the inwardness of it — it took a man to do that.
The fire began to die on the hearth and the wind before morning to blow. The light was getting gray in the room when Dan'l Webster finished. And his words came back at the end to New Hampshire ground, and the one spot of land that each man loves and clings to. He painted a picture of that, and to each one of that jury he spoke of things long forgotten. For his voice could search the heart, and that was his gift and his strength. And to one, his voice was like the forest and its secrecy, and to another like the sea and the storms of the sea; and one heard the cry of his lost nation in it, and another saw a little harmless scene he hadn't remembered for years. But each saw something. And when Dan'l Webster finished he didn't know whether or not he'd saved Jabez Stone. But he knew he'd done a miracle. For the glitter was gone from the eyes of the judge and jury, and, for the moment, they were men again, and knew they were men.