Strength quotes (page 15) | Quotes of famous people

“I, who loved and knew you,
In the city that slew you,
Still hunger on, and thirst, and climb, proud-hearted and alone:

Serpent-fears enfold me,
Syren-visions hold me,
And, like a wave, I gather strength, and gathering
strength, I moan;
Yea, the pale moon beckons,
Still I follow, aching,
And gather strength, only to make a louder moan, in breaking!”

Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901) Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist

"To David in Heaven", St. 13.
Undertones (1883)

“Whenever you interview people who are truly successful at their chosen profession—from teaching to telemarketing, acting to accounting—you discover that the secret to their success lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.”

Marcus Buckingham (1966) British writer

Source: Now, Discover Your Strengths (2001), p. 21

“Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.”

Alain Badiou (1937) French writer and philosopher

Source: Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

“The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end… in the end it is our only ally.”

Joanne Greenberg book I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Source: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

“Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.”

Billy Graham (1918–2018) American Christian evangelist

“real strength is not hitting when what you most want to do is kill.”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

“Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

“God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.”

Dan Brown book Angels & Demons

Source: Angels & Demons

“Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer

“Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil not the strength to choose between the two.”

John Cheever (1912–1982) American novelist and short story writer

The Late Forties and the Fifties, 1956 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)

“It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind.”

Morrissey (1959) English singer

from the 1986 song "I Know It's Over"
From songs

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer

Source: Clippings from My Notebook

“Truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.”

Pope Benedict XVI (1927) 265th Pope of the Catholic Church

In Address to the International Diplomats Address to the International Diplomats http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2006/march/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060318_intern-organizations_en.html (18 March 2006)
2006

“Wellness is not only related to the physical, but also to the strength of the connection between the body and mind.”

Vladislav Doronin (1962) European businessman

Interview with Spa.com http://www.spabusiness.com/TP_counter.cfm?sitecode=SB&linktype=story&codeID=31102&viewtype=online

“A faultless person is one who withdraws from affairs. This must be done with strength.”

Tsunetomo Yamamoto book Hagakure

Hagakure (c. 1716)

“The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well-ordered homes of the people.”

Lydia Sigourney (1791–1865) American poet

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 324.

“The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Hotchkiss
1900s, Getting Married (1908)

“Temperance is to the body what religion is to the soul, the foundation and source of health and strength and peace.”

Tryon Edwards (1809–1894) American theologian

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 567.

“I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength.”

Martin Firrell (1963) British artist and activist

"I Want to Live in a City Where..." (2006)

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