Quotes

Ernest Hemingway photo
William Hazlitt photo
Karen Horney photo

“To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.”

Karen Horney (1885–1952) American-German psychoanalyst

Source: Self-Analysis

Theodor W. Adorno photo

“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.”

Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society
Helen Keller photo
Marcus Aurelius photo
Hayley Jensen photo

“Mark: I constantly admire your strength but I don't know - I heard pitching problems.”

Hayley Jensen (1983) Australian singer

Australian Idol, Final Performances, Final 7

Victor Hugo photo
Elie Wiesel photo
Markus Zusak photo
Isabel Allende photo

“We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.”

Isabel Allende (1942) Chilean writer

Source: Island Beneath the Sea

Nassim Nicholas Taleb photo

“The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.”

Christian D. Larson (1874–1962) Prolific author of metaphysical and New Thought books

Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912), Chapter 14, p. 210

John Lancaster Spalding photo

“When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.”

John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 72

Narada Maha Thera photo
Grace Hopper photo

“[The Computer] was the first machine man built that assisted the power of his brain instead of the strength of his arm.”

Grace Hopper (1906–1992) American computer scientist and United States Navy officer

As spoken at Space Coast 1987 speaking about the Harvard Mark I computer. The Computer was originally She in reference to the Mark I.

William Shenstone photo

“Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are shewing you the grounds of it.”

William Shenstone (1714–1763) English gardener

Essays on Men and Manners (1804)

Andrei Sakharov photo

“Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.”

Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989) Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist

Autobiographical sketch at the official Nobel Prize site
Nobel autobiography (1975)

Alex Salmond photo

“The future strength of our rural economies and communities will depend upon the availability of a sufficient and appropriate supply of housing.”

Alex Salmond (1954) Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland

Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Lecture (December 19, 2007)

Robert Seymour Bridges photo

“The storm is over, the land hushes to rest:
The tyrannous wind, its strength fordone,
Is fallen back in the west.”

Robert Seymour Bridges (1844–1930) British writer

The Storm is Over, The Land Hushes to Rest, l. 1-3.
Poetry