Quotes

“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

Swami Vivekananda photo
Maya Angelou photo
Daisaku Ikeda photo
Maria Montessori photo
Robert Frost photo

“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

Audre Lorde photo
Naomi Novik photo
Marcus Aurelius photo

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

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

Sri Chinmoy photo
Michael Foot photo

“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.

Anna Freud photo
Fernando Pessoa photo

“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

Abdul Halim of Kedah photo

“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

Swami Vivekananda photo

“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

Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues photo

“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.

Robert Seymour Bridges photo

“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).
Poetry

Bram van Velde photo

“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)