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“The golden rays of the moon paid him absolute tribute. He was a buffet of muscles and corded strength.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Playing with Fire

“Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.
Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.
Love is Life, Hatred is Death.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.”

Maya Angelou book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.”

Daisaku Ikeda (1928) Japanese writer

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”

Maria Montessori (1870–1952) Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician

“The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

Source: Complete Poems Of Robert Frost, 1949

“… and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

“His name tasted of fire and wings, of curling smoke, of subtlety and strength and the rasping whisper of scales.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII

“America’s special strength lies not in frightening the weak and challenging the strong, but in strengthening the weak and illumining the strong.”

Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) Indian writer and guru

America The Beautiful (2010)

“People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement”

Michael Foot (1913–2010) British politician

The Morning Star (1976).
1970s

“To know Jesus Christ for ourselves is to make Him a consolation, delight, strength, righteousness, companion, and end.”

Richard Cecil (clergyman) (1748–1810) British Evangelical Anglican priest and social reformer

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 246.

“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.”

Anna Freud (1895–1982) Austrian-British psychoanalyst & essayist

“Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!”

Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher

Source: Poems of Fernando Pessoa

“Strength enough to build a home,
Time enough to hold a child,
Love enough to break a heart”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“Unity, stability and wellfare are the uppermost to press ahead the development agenda, build strength and sovereignty of the nation.”

Abdul Halim of Kedah (1927–2017) King of Malaysia

Maulidur Rasul 1434H https://books.google.com.my/books?id=P3ZODwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false, 24/1/2013

“The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Pearls of Wisdom

“If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.”

Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist

Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), pp. 170-171.

“Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee,
With promise of strength and manhood full and fair!”

Robert Seymour Bridges (1844–1930) British writer

On a Dead Child http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2930.html, st. 1 (1890). <br class="br">Poetry

“It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.”

Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter

Quote about the painting 'Piano lesson' of Matisse, Van Velde saw around 1925 for the first time and inspired him strongly during the 1930's
1970's
Source: article Schilder Bram van Velde in Dordrecht, by Paul Groot, newspaper NRC Handelsblad, 1979 (English translation: Charlotte Burgmans)